Northeastern Nevada

CIS Students Achieve a 90% Graduation Rate for the 2019-2020 School Year

For students receiving case management, the organization’s most intensive intervention, the figure is 6 percent higher than statewide average; model shown to significantly close opportunity gaps for students living in poverty and students of color

All Nevada students can now access internet from home, group says

Las Vegas Review Journal

The organizers of an initiative to improve Nevada students’ access to distance learning said Tuesday that all state students now have access to a computer and internet at home.

Connecting Kids Nevada — a public-private partnership between dozens of commu... Learn More

A Pandemic Makes it Even More Difficult to Get Resources

A Pandemic Makes it Even More Difficult to Get Resources to the Students Who Most Need Them — Enter Communities In Schools of Northeastern Nevada

Author: Sarah Goicoechea, Executive Director, Communities in Schools of Northeastern Nevada

Those of us who l... Learn More

Wherever Our Kids Are, Whatever It Takes

‘Communities In Schools Is Here to Break Down Barriers to Academic Success and Graduation’

Author: Sarah Goicoechea, Executive Director, Communities In Schools of Northeastern Nevada

August is synonymous with back-to-school — a time typically filled w... Learn More

Nonprofit Undergoes Paradigm Shift

When Maria Ruiz learned a student’s mother had been laid off and food was running low in the household, she knew one thing might cheer him up — hot Takis.

So Ruiz, a site coordinator for Communities In Schools in Elko, stopped at a gas station for the spicy snack and scrawled a ha... Learn More

School safety nets: mental health resources attend to emotional, physical needs of students