Student safety is in the spotlight ahead of the start of the Clark County School District’s summer break.
Channel 13 reporters spent Tuesday talking to parents, students and community leaders about what issues are top of mind to keep kids safe on the streets this summer. Here’s what you need to know:
CCSD shares plans for keeping kids safe in the summer
School zone flashers will stay on throughout the summer, even without school in session.
As Channel 13’s northwest Las Vegas reporter Guy Tannenbaum learned, it’s part of the effort to keep roads safe around schools year-round. The decision was made by the School Traffic Safety Working Group in response to more than 400 students being hit by cars this school year.
“We’re coming up with new ideas to curb a lot of this, and because we have more summer programs going on now than we historically have in the past, so the push from the county is to have them on,” said Lt. Bryan Zink, spokesperson for the CCSD Police Department…