{"id":6184,"date":"2010-08-13T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T16:55:34","slug":"public-option-schools-stink-up-clark-county-school-chief-elated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/public-option-schools-stink-up-clark-county-school-chief-elated\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Option Schools Stink Up Clark County, School Chief Elated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Assemblyman Ed Goedhart)<\/em> &#8211; The <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> has reported that 59.5 percent of Clark County\u2019s government-run schools \u2013 the \u201cpublic option\u201d for education \u2013 failed to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind for the 2009-10 school year.  <\/p>\n<p>A total of only 152 schools made the grade, while a staggering 215 got an \u201cF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Superintendent Walt Rulffes, \u201cwho plans to retire when a successor is found, was pleased overall and said the results were a \u2018good going away present,\u2019\u201d the RJ reported.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?!!  More than half of your schools stink on ice and you\u2019re \u201cpleased\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Democrats reject any talk of offering the parents and students of these schools a voucher so they can escape these \u201cmiserable failures\u201d and attend a private school of their choice.  Indeed, the Democrat majority in the state Assembly last year wouldn\u2019t even hold a hearing on my Excellence In Education and Increased Opportunities (EIEIO) school choice bill in the \u201909 Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid wants to make this election all about education, but his plan does not include a \u201cprivate option\u201d for education.  On the other hand, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval has voiced very strong and unqualified support for school vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one conclusion you can come to: Democrats hate children.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Assemblyman Goedhart lives in Amargosa Valley and represents Assembly District 36 in the Nevada Legislature)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Assemblyman Ed Goedhart) &#8211; The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that 59.5 percent of Clark County\u2019s government-run schools \u2013 the \u201cpublic option\u201d for education \u2013 failed to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind for the 2009-10 school year. A total of only 152 schools made the grade, while a staggering 215 got an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6198,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}