Publications
Dollar difficulties stifle potential of Nevada charter schools
Mechanism to connect businesses and charters needed, says leader
Charter school leader says there needs to be a mechanism to connect businesses and charters.
Misreading the Obamacare tea leaves
Obamacare's impact on NY premiums foretells a disaster, not 'success'
Obamacare's impact on New York premiums foretells a disaster, not 'success.'
NPRI to appeal CCSD open-records lawsuit to Nevada Supreme Court
LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court Judge Douglas Smith has granted the Clark County School District’s motion to dismiss the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s public-records lawsuit seeking government-issued email addresses.
In response, Joseph Becker, the director of NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation, announced the Center will appeal. He released the following comments.
Broken Compact
The Hollowing-Out of Nevada Statehood
Before Nevada joined the Union in 1864, the U.S. Congress explicitly promised more than two dozen times that the new state would be on an equal footing with the original states.
That promise, however, was not kept.
Today, as this report’s cover illustrates, only 13 percent of Nevada’s surface is available to provide the state with a tax base for the funding of services. In some counties — examples are Mineral, Nye and White Pine — the tax base is virtually nonexistent, at 4 percent or less.
Behind this problem is congressional bad faith — the breaking of a commitment to new states, a commitment even older than the U.S. Constitution: that the federal government would facilitate the settling of new states by selling or giving away unappropriated land and not keeping it. Indeed, it was on the basis of this commitment that the original 13 states agreed to the Constitution.
Study: More Medicaid eligibility = fewer workers
Public health care subsidies crowd out private insurance, reduce job-seeking
Government health care subsidies crowd out private insurance and reduce job-seeking.
Ineffectiveness of class-size reduction underscores problems with public education in Nevada
Objective data show Nevada doesn't spend its education dollars wisely
Nevada doesn’t spend its education dollars wisely.
31 percent of Nevada workers want to leave their unions
Union restrictions make it difficult for members to opt out
Union restrictions make it difficult for unhappy members to opt out.
Milton Friedman: Remembering a man who changed the world
NPRI's upcoming luncheon celebrates his legacy and vision for school choice
NPRI’s upcoming luncheon celebrates Friedman's legacy and vision for school choice.
School board members should be exempt from ethics law, since trustees serve 'the children,' says CCSD lawyer
Argument seeks to defend district board president, top lobbyist
Argument is an attempt to defend district board president, top lobbyist from ethics complaints.
