LAS VEGAS (AP) — Administrators say six Las Vegas-area schools will split a $3 million federal grant to start high-tech science, engineering and math programs.

Clark County School Superintendent Dwight Jones tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/X3GKTH ) the program aims to help meet a need for trained engineers and skilled tradesman in the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

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