Education
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part I
Bureaucrats still think government force can produce Utopia
State regulators are trying to price low-income parents out of the child-care market.
Money down the drain
It’s time we got results for our public-education spending
The Clark County School District has over a half dozen funding sources. Including all sources, how much does Clark County really spend per pupil?
School fights
Parents will ultimately win the right of school choice
Examining how parents' desire for school choice divides the Democratic party.
Trust the trustees?
CCSD’s change-order process should be watched closely
Does the CCSD's change-order process allow companies to low-ball bids and then increase the cost to the school district?
Meeting the challenges in special education
Parental choice would be a wise and affordable first step
Special education vouchers improve the quality of education for special needs children and keep others from being misidentified as disabled.
CCSD remains hostile to transparency
Trustees continue to flout open-meeting laws
Why are Clark County School District trustees so eager to circumvent Nevada's open-meeting laws?
Same old story in Nevada education
Silver State still in need of genuine reform
Cornelius Vanderbilt sold passages across the Atlantic on steamers for as little as $30 a ticket. Andrew Carnegie's steel company became so efficient it forced the world price for steel down from $56 per ton to just $11.50 in less than 30 years. John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, by 1890, was selling oil for just eight cents a gallon. These entrepreneurs ran their businesses efficiently and made their profits massive by simply giving customers what customers wanted — at better rates than did the competition. Today they are vilified as robber barons, as many people focus on tales of good or bad intentions, rather than actual good results.
When children don’t matter
Nevada public education has become a jobs program for adults
When your car breaks down, you can take it to a knowledgeable mechanic or even pick up a how-to guide and repair it yourself. But when political or economic systems are the problem, no similarly easy solutions exist. What we do have, however, are how-not-to states. Like...
Still waiting in the West
It’s time for CCSD to fulfill its promises
For three years, the Clark County School District has been promising the West Las Vegas community new school buildings on the Charles I. West campus. West Middle School, more commonly known as West Prep, has been home to the school district's pilot K-12 program since 2006. Since that time, the program has expanded to house approximately 400 elementary-school students in 25 portable classrooms and over 1,100 students in grades six through 12 in the original middle-school building.
New school board, new direction
Fresh faces are shaking things up in Clark County
Six months ago, three new trustees were sworn into office on the Clark County Board of School Trustees. For the first time in more than 10 years, the school board had a majority of first-term representatives. This raised a question: Could change be on the horizon?
