LAS VEGAS -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Las Vegas Wednesday, looking at several successful schools in the Clark County School District.

Secretary Duncan said Nevada can do better when it comes to investing in public education for kindergarten through 12th grade.

He made those comments during a roundtable discussion with local principals and CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky at Bracken Elementary School.

Duncan made it clear he wants to see more Nevada students succeeding in more schools like Bracken Elementary, which is a five-star blue-ribbon campus.

However, at the roundtable, principals from much lower performing schools were there to make their voices heard, including Tim Adams, the principal of Martinez Elementary School, which at one time was a one-star school.

"Resources are important. Teachers are important, materials," Adams said. "If there is no funding available, it is more difficult."

LAS VEGAS -- Parents getting high and leaving their children to suffer.

Right now, family court judges are seeing more drug-addicted parents flooding the system. The problem is so bad kids taken away from their families years ago are now showing up again, to watch child services take away their children.

Judges say this is a cycle they are seeing repeated over and over, all because of drugs. They say it is impacting thousands of children.

Right now, there are 3,700 kids in the system here in Clark County. Of those kids, about 80 percent were taken from their parents because of neglect and in the majority of those cases the neglect stems from drug use.

Michelle Bortle has spent the last year getting clean after sinking into a methamphetamine addiction.

"It just takes over. You start off little, and then, before you know it, you've lost everything," Bortle said.

The Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts hosted some special guests at its academy restaurant Tuesday.

The school served 60 students from Von Tobel Middle School, who are enrolled in the After-School All-Stars Program, which provides after-school programs in at-risk schools.

The meal was a full Thanksgiving feast, served by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Beers and local TV anchors, including 8 News NOW's Paula Francis. 

"I think Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks and appreciate things and I think this is a great opportunity for the kids to feel very special, feel very valued, feel very privileged to be in a program like After-School All-Stars and also to be able to be served by such wonderful people here at Le Cordon Bleu. We can't thank them enough for this opportunity," executive director of After-School All-Stars Ranna Daud said.