All posts tagged "CCSD"

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Remember this the next time someone starts talking about “investing in education.” If we are really interested in “investing” in education, let’s put our dollars into the hands of parents who can select schools that are delivering better results for a fraction of the cost of public schools. Vegas...

(Karen Gray/NPRI) – A Legislative Counsel Bureau opinion, requested by Assemblyman Richard “Tick” Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, and obtained exclusively by Nevada Journal, has determined that the Clark County School District Police are overstepping their legal authority by enforcing traffic laws in areas beyond school property. Subsection 2 of NRS 391.275 gives school...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A panel of lawmakers today began a review of the state’s 45-year-old formula for funding public education with an eye towards addressing the needs of the state’s urban districts as they work to educate special education students, English-language learners and children in poverty. The panel is still...

(Sean Whaley) – As National School Choice Week gets under way today state officials say Nevada school children...

(Ben Velderman/Education Action Group Foundation) – While the Great Recession has affected almost all Americans, Nevadans may be the hardest hit. The state leads the nation in unemployment (13 percent) and home foreclosures (three times the national average). Because of the faltering economy and slowed tax revenue, the Clark County School District needs...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Imagine you or your child could have personalized lesson plans with almost instantaneous feedback on how you’re doing on a particular subject area. That’s the power of digital learning, and it’s just not possible in a traditional classroom. The teacher prepares lessons for the class as a whole and...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – For the first time, Clark County School District payments to vendors are publicly available and easily searchable on the Web. The district — to facilitate transparency and public understanding — worked with TransparentNevada, a public service of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, to make its information easily accessible to...

(Victor Joecks/NPRI) – Dave Berns with the Las Vegas Sun has been writing a series of articles on Chaparral High School. Included in Berns’ most recent article was a perfect example of why school must be allowed to fire bad teachers. Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson refers to math as “the...

NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – You’re not happy with the public school system. You decide to homeschool....

(Lori Piotrowski) - If you had misgivings about the education your children were receiving in the Clark...

(Karen Gray and Alexander Cooper/NPRI) – Is your son or daughter attending one of the 71 failing Title I schoolsin the Clark County School District? If so — and if you want him or her to go to a better school next year — you should consider taking advantage of a provision...

(Alexander Cooper/NPRI) – The Clark County School District failed to meet AYP for the 2010-2011 school year. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), all schools and school districts are required to meet certain minimum standards (to make “adequate yearly progress”) set by the federal government. One of the primary factors that goes...

(Karen Gray/NPRI) – For more than a decade, the Clark County school board has celebrated the board’s use of Policy Governance®, the board leadership paradigm created and taught by Dr. John Carver. Under the Policy Governance® paradigm, the board gives the superintendent broadly written policies describing the outcomes the board expects and...