Education
Pools for schools
This week, the Clark County School Board is getting ready to spend $2 million of taxpayer money to help the City of Henderson build a new swimming pool. So, where is the district getting the money?
Read moreA response to NSHE's efficiency report
Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers has issued a report on NSHE efficiency improvements, which you can read here. Nevadans should certainly welcome the release of this report, and Chancellor Rogers ought to be applauded for reversing course on his earlier public claim that he would not detail NSHE cost savings. One can't help but be skeptical, however,
How about them apples?
Nevada's modest 1 percent decline in spending (also known as Nevada's budget "crisis" to those less informed) has resulted in a proposed budget that seeks to cut state worker pay 6 percent. According to the U.S. Census Bureau state worker pay in Nevada ranks 16th highest in the country.
School choice would help solve problem of over- and under-crowded Henderson high schools
Liberty and Coronado High Schools are both in Henderson and are less than five miles from each other. Liberty is under-populated by 768 students and Coronado has 512 students too many. Now, if school systems operated in a free-market system, this wouldn't be a big deal.
Chancellor Rogers releases Higher Ed cost savings and efficiency report
After promising he wouldn't, ironically. But regardless, glad to see it come out.
Nevada schools waste money, demand more
The anguished cries for more taxpayer funding of K-12 education have begun and almost certainly are going to increase as the Legislative Session progresses. What's often forgotten is that schools, like most government agencies, waste a tremendous amount of money.
The good, the bad and the funny in CCSD
The Clark County School District released math test scores this week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
Business as usual
Hopes that new faces, new leadership and a new year would bring a new attitude to the Clark County Board of School Trustees have been swiftly squashed. January 2009 proved to be more of the same ole', same ole' for the CCSD board.
Former CCSD school board members try to conceal district's lack of progress
Apparently former CCSD school board members Ruth Johnson and Mary Beth Scow don't want the district's progress or lack of it judged on the basis of the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Instead, they prefer the No Child Left Behind act's adequate yearly progress (AYP) scoring, which can be—and regularly is—"gamed."
Maureen Dowd answers her own question
Unfortunately, she never realizes it...
