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Read moreNSHE needs to focus on graduating its students
A memo from Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers recently defended paying 106 of the roughly 1,300 NSHE employees more than $100,000 a year. It was another instance of Nevada policy leaders focusing on inputs—state employees and salaries—rather than results.
NSHE needs to focus on results, not funding
As mentioned before, funding for the Nevada System of Higher Education has grown considerably faster than inflation. But has NSHE seen a comparably strong rise in student population, reducing state funding per student? Some people still feel government should maintain, or even increase, its per-resident or per-pupil funding, regardless of any possibilities of taking advantage of cost-saving ideas.
It's on: Chancellor Rogers vs. Jim Calhoun
Well at least it should be. For those who've missed it: In the last week...
Democrats try to kill school choice in D.C.
Breaking news from Dan Lips and Robert Enlow, writing for National Review: Democrats have a $450 billion omnibus bill which has a provision to eliminate the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program—a voucher program which helps 1,700 low-income students attend private schools of their choice.
Commission wants to force Coronado students to go to Liberty High School
Last week, we told you about how Coronado High School has too many students and Liberty High School doesn't have enough. Since the Henderson schools are within five miles each other, the easy solution for the Attendance Zone Advisory Commission was to change the zoning.
Teachers union against educational standards before it was for them
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers—one of the largest teacher unions in the country—recently published an opinion article in the Washington Post stating that she favors strong national education standards.
A majority don't graduate UNLV or UNR within 6 years
In the 1978 comedy classic National Lampoon's Animal House, after members of Delta House learn they are being expelled from campus, Bluto (John Belushi) laments to his fraternity brothers, "seven years of college, down the drain." Back in 1978 that joke merited riotous laughter from the audience. In 2009 Nevada, however, that joke reflects reality.
Schools waste millions, begin reforms
Not that you should get your hopes up.
Special needs scholarships
Please meet Lucas Estrada. Lucas is an elementary student in Florida who has autism. A voucher through Florida's McKay scholarship program allowed him to attend a private school, where "Lucas thrives in academic...
