EDITORIAL: Ramp up traffic enforcement around school zones

With students returning to class in early August, Clark County officials are searching for ways to avoid a repeat of the past school year, when traffic accidents involving kids near campus soared more than 250 percent. A report compiled by the School Traffic Safety Working Group offered dozens of reforms last week, some more promising than others. Figures from the Clark County School District reveal there were 427 collisions involving children near school campuses during the 2025-26 academic calendar year. That’s up from 120 in the previous year. Most of the incidents were minor, but two students were killed in October 2025 — one was struck while riding a bicycle and another died after being hit by a school bus. Some of the increase can be attributed to more aggressive reporting. But the i