Editing Las Vegas (section)

== Politics ==
Las Vegas City Presidential Election Results

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|+ '''Las Vegas City Presidential Election Results'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=DRA 2020 |url=https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::e727f21b-f89c-419c-b3f0-379dbaeb000e |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=Daves Redistricting}}</ref>
!Year
![[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
![[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
![[Third party (United States)|Third Parties]]
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| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2024 United States presidential election in Nevada|2024]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''51.4%''' ''149,647''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |46.8% ''136,073''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.8% ''5,299''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2020 United States presidential election in Nevada|2020]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''54.3%''' ''150,733''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |43.7% ''121,302''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |2.1% ''5,763''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2016 United States presidential election in Nevada|2016]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''52.9%''' ''121,107''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |41.2% ''94,392''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |5.9% ''13,544''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2012 United States presidential election in Nevada|2012]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''57.7%''' ''119,156''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |42.3% ''87,227''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |0% ''0''
|-
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |[[2008 United States presidential election in Nevada|2008]]
| align="center" {{Party shading/Democratic}} |'''58.8%''' ''118,827''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Republican}} |39.2% ''79,207''
| align="center" {{Party shading/Independent}} |1.89% ''22,436''
|-
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{{main|Las Vegas Valley#Education}}

===Primary and secondary schools===
{{main|Clark County School District}}
Primary and secondary [[public education]] is provided by the [[Clark County School District]].<ref>[[Nevada Revised Statutes|N.R.S]]. § 386.010 "[https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-386.html#NRS386Sec010 Creation; power to sue]." (1971). In ''Chapter 386: Local Administrative Organization''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20000817040301/https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-386.html Archived] from the original August 17, 2000.

"County school districts, the boundaries of which are conterminous with the boundaries of the counties of the State, are hereby created. The Carson City School District shall be considered as a county school district. Each county school district created by this chapter is hereby declared to be a political subdivision of the State of Nevada whose purpose is to administer the state system of public education. Each school district shall have the power to sue and may be sued. [47:32:1956]—(NRS A 1967, 37; 1969, 336; 1971, 517)"</ref>

=== Public higher education ===
Public higher education is provided by the [[Nevada System of Higher Education]] (NSHE). Public institutions serving Las Vegas include the [[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]] (UNLV), the [[College of Southern Nevada]] (CSN), [[Nevada State University]] (NSU), and the [[Desert Research Institute]] (DRI).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Institutions |url=https://nshe.nevada.edu/our-institutions/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=[[Nevada System of Higher Education]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

UNLV is a public, land-grant, [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|R1 research]] university and is home to the [[UNLV School of Medicine|Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Abel |date=April 18, 2024 |title=UNLV's School of Medicine taking steps to fill physician shortage in Nevada |url=https://www.ktnv.com/news/unlvs-school-of-medicine-taking-steps-to-fill-physician-shortage-in-nevada |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240419235412/https://www.ktnv.com/news/unlvs-school-of-medicine-taking-steps-to-fill-physician-shortage-in-nevada |archive-date=April 19, 2024 |work=[[KTNV-TV|KTNV ABC 13]]}}</ref> and the [[William S. Boyd School of Law]], the only law school in Nevada.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacob |first=Matt |date=2018-11-29 |title=How Nevada Finally Got a Law School {{!}} University of Nevada, Las Vegas |url=https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/how-nevada-finally-got-law-school |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=News Center |publisher=[[University of Nevada, Las Vegas]] |language=en}}</ref> The university's campus is urban and located about two miles east of the Las Vegas strip. The Desert Research Institute's southern campus sits next to UNLV, while its northern campus is in Reno.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Desert Research Institute |url=https://www.dri.edu/about/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=[[Desert Research Institute]] |publisher=[[Nevada System of Higher Education]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

CSN, with campuses throughout Clark County,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.csn.edu/about-us |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=[[College of Southern Nevada]] |language=en}}</ref> is a [[community college]] with one of the largest enrollments in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-10-12 |title=Biggest Community Colleges |url=https://www.campusexplorer.com/student-resources/biggest-community-colleges/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Campus Explorer |language=en-US}}</ref> In unincorporated Clark County, CSN's Charleston campus is home to the headquarters of [[Nevada Public Radio]] ([[KNPR]]), an [[NPR]] member station.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Nevada Public Radio |url=https://knpr.org/about-nevada-public-radio |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=[[Nevada Public Radio]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Charleston Campus |url=https://www.csn.edu/about-us/campus-locations/charleston-campus |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=[[College of Southern Nevada]] |language=en}}</ref>

=== Private higher education ===
[[Touro University Nevada]] located in [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]] is a non-profit, private institution primarily focusing on medical education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moody |first=Josh |title=5 Questions for the President of Touro University |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/01/08/five-questions-president-touro-university |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}</ref> Other institutions include a number of [[Proprietary college|for-profit]] private schools (e.g., [[Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Las Vegas|Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts]], [[DeVry University]], among others).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colleges in Las Vegas |url=https://www.appily.com/colleges/city/colleges-in-las-vegas |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Appily |language=en}}</ref>