Education
Rhetoric versus reality
On education spending, they’re telling you more is less
The K-12 education establishment is trying to pretend that a $200 million funding increase is a devastating cut.
Blame-free at CCSD
Public education officials point fingers at everyone but themselves
In order to truly improve educational quality in Nevada, public education officials must first look at their own behavior.
Assessing the governor’s education reforms
The conversation is heading in the right direction
Governor Jim Gibbons' proposed education reforms represent a step in the right direction.
Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part VI
Compliance with and nose-thumbing at Nevada’s empowerment law
How Nevada's largest school districts are (and aren't) complying with the state's empowerment school mandate.
Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part V
Decentralization does not guarantee success
Reform in name only is no reform at all.
CCSD: Read it and (bleep)
‘Transparency’ a four-letter word to school district
The school district continues in its attempts to avoid transparency.
Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part IV
Do empowerment schools produce real educational achievement?
Empirical evidence shows school decentralization produces real educational achievement.
Financing Entrepreneurial Education: Part III
Let’s fund student results – not make-work jobs for adults
Public education — where all is supposedly "for the children" — has a dirty secret: Its real organizing principle is jobs for adults.
Frivolous in Florida
Education-funding lawsuits don’t boost student achievement
Education-funding lawsuits have led to more spending, but not to greater student achievement.
Financing entrepreneurial education: Part II
The commanding heights of public education
When will education bureaucrats stop trying to run local schools?