Ballot Question 1<\/strong><\/a>. Nevada voters rejected this amendment by 50.15-49.85%. Nevada Assemblymember Jim Wheeler (R), who supported Ballot Question 1, said, \u201cBallot Question 1 restores accountability, transparency, and oversight to higher education by reinvigorating the original intent of the framers of the Nevada Constitution. Question 1 simply makes the Board of Regents a statutory body, subject to checks and balances\u2014an important American principle.\u201d<\/p>\nLaura Perkins, a member of the Nevada Board of Regents who opposed the 2020 amendment on the ballot, said, \u201cThere\u2019s no numbers or positive proof that the system that may or may not come out of this is better than the system that we have now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Nevada Faculty Alliance, an organization representing all eight institutions in the Nevada System of Higher Education, said that they are neutral on the 2024 amendment. In a statement, the organization said, \u201cQuestion 1, narrowly defeated in 2020, had a clause regarding academic freedom, but as written it would actually have endangered academic freedom. SJR7 is silent on academic freedom. In the 2021 legislative session, we offered an amendment to protect academic freedom, but it gained no traction. The constitutional independence of a governing board provides some protection for academic freedom; however, today we see both elected and appointed boards becoming politicized and they do not necessarily protect the principles we value.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently, there are three constitutional amendments on the Nevada 2024 ballot in November. One measure, a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment, would provide for open top-five primaries and ranked-choice voting for general elections. The other measure, a constitutional amendment referred by the state legislature, would repeal language from the Nevada Constitution that allows the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishments.<\/p>\n
\nBy<\/p>\n
Nicole Fisher | The Center Square<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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