Joe Enge
Back to school
What are the charter choices in Nevada?
What choices are available to parents and students in Nevada who are considering the charter school option? What can you do if you don’t like the menu at the geographically mandated government educational cafeteria? Unfortunately, Nevadans have few alternatives.
A success in any language
The Mariposa Academy is a hit among Hispanic students.
Trying to be everything to everybody is a sure recipe for failure. Yet, to maintain its education monopoly, that’s what the Nevada public school system attempts to do.
A crack at real choice in education
The Nevada Connections Academy will expand opportunity.
Choice for education in Nevada has long been greatly lacking. A small number of charter schools have existed, but they have been constantly and purposefully exposed and limited — for the best interests of the establishment, not the students.
Educational feudalism
The peasants are beginning to revolt.
Teachers often bemoan the fact that they are neither seen nor treated as true professionals. It is true that teachers are not held in nearly as high a regard in American culture as they are in many others. Having taught in Estonia, I’ve experienced the difference in treatment that teachers receive there as compared to here in the United States. In fact, students don’t refer to their teachers by name in Estonia, instead using the term “teacher” as a respectful way to address educators.
A dose of reality
Proponents of endless education funding have learned some hard lessons.
In a mad rush to jack up education spending by over a billion dollars during the 2007 Legislative Session — without any serious and badly needed education reforms involving choice or accountability — Nevada’s education establishment tripped over the rock of reality and stumbled headlong into a pronounced credibility gap.
ACE is the place for results
Reno's Academy for Career Education places first in state competition
The Academy for Career Education (ACE) High School is a tuition-free, construction trades and engineering charter school for 10th- through 12th-grade students. Based in Reno, ACE offers students the opportunity to pursue an integrated academic curriculum while taking specific professional-level construction or engineering courses.
Battling for control of the state education system
Will the interests of the many finally trump those of the few?
Nevada currently finds itself in a bizarre situation in which both everyone and no one are simultaneously in charge of the state’s public K-12 education system.
Time for clear thinking on CTE
Nevada students deserve the same opportunities provided in other parts of the world.
Anyone who has ever taught overseas can’t help but recognize the self-serving, idiosyncratic nature of the American public education system, compared to those in other countries.
Shades of Julius Caesar in empowerment plan
The LEAPS plan is designed to destroy Gov. Gibbons' empowerment proposal.
It was the same date, centuries ago, when a man popular to the people and dangerous to the elites walked through the Roman forum to the Senate. He would not be returning. It was the Ides of March and conspirators lay in wait.
On the Ides of March this year in Carson City, State Sens. Steven Horsford and Dina Titus unveiled their LEAPS, or Local Empowerment and Accountability for Public Schools, plan.
New governor shows true educational leadership
In nixing big funds for all-day kindergarten, Gibbonsreveals both political courage and respect for the best research
Right after his Jan. 2 public swearing-in ceremony, Gov. Jim Gibbons showed leadership in education by rejecting funding for the spurious all-day kindergarten program for all students.
