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The $200,000-a-year classroom teacher
A new paradigm to rescue Nevada public education
Big ideas can change the course of history. For Nevada public education, the time has come for a big idea: the $200,000-a-year classroom teacher. Teaching talent commensurate with pay of this magnitude, with eligibility based upon instructional prowess, could propel badly needed academic achievement gains.
Former Superintendent Guthrie proposal: Pay best teachers $200,000 a year
LAS VEGAS — Paying unusually effective teachers $200,000 a year will transform the teaching profession in Nevada by attracting more top-level talent to the classroom. That’s the bold idea spelled out by former Nevada Superintendent Dr. James W. Guthrie in a new Nevada Policy Research Institute report. Guthrie was Nevada’s first appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Study: RPS to cost Nevadans $2.2 billion, 1,930 jobs over 12 years
LAS VEGAS — Government-energy mandates will cost Nevadans $2.275 billion while lowering employment by 1,930 jobs over the next dozen years, concludes a new study from the Nevada Policy Research Institute.
The study, entitled RPS: A Recipe for Economic Decline, details the wealth-destroying impact of Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard, which mandates that NV Energy use renewable-energy resources to supply 25 percent of Nevada’s electricity by 2025. The report was produced by three scholars from the Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy Research at Suffolk University: David G. Tuerck, Paul Bachman and Michael Head.
NPRI reacts to Senate Republican tax increase proposal
CARSON CITY — Responding to today’s proposal by six Senate Republicans to more than double Nevada’s mining tax in order to increase education funding, NPRI’s deputy policy director, Geoffrey Lawrence, released the following comments.
R.I.P., Publius: First Amendment no longer protects all political speech
SOS Miller sees extensive use of freedom of speech rights as a problem
SOS Miller views extensive use of freedom of speech rights as a problem.
CCSD has fired only two principals in the last 30 years
Will trustees choose a reform-minded superintendent or again fail students by embracing the pathetic status quo?
Will school board trustees choose a reform-minded superintendent or again fail students by embracing the pathetic status quo?
Nevada clean-energy entrepreneur faces hostile bureaucracies, subsidized competitors
More business-friendly Texas suggests he leave Nevada, relocate there
More business-friendly Texas asks him to leave Nevada and relocate there.
The good, the bad and the ugly: Part I
A review of bills that didn't survive the committee deadline
An overview of bills that didn’t survive the committee deadline.
