All posts tagged "Nevada education system"

Attendance at Treasurer’s regulatory workshop overflows even the ‘overflow’ room (Steven Miller, NPRI) – Las Vegas parents swamped...

(Andy Matthews of NPRI) – With the establishment of Nevada’s new Education Savings Accounts program, it’s quite possible that Silver State students are the freest in the country. Once the program goes into effect in January, any student who has been in public school for 100 days will have the opportunity to attend...

(Office of the State Treasurer) – CARSON CITY — State Treasurer Dan Schwartz and the STO’s Implementation Team have put forward the following proposal for Nevada parents to determine eligibility under the recently enacted “Education Savings Accounts” (ESA) program. One of SB 302’s key provision, Section 7, addresses the time a student must...

Says state-based school-choice programs create momentum for national reform (Steven Miller, NPRI) – Nevada parents this year received one of the most marvelous gifts lawmakers can provide: the ability for parents to customize the education of their own children. That was the assessment Wednesday by the president of the Heritage Foundation, former U.S....

(Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach) – About the only thing Republicans did right in the 2015 legislative session was to place a stake squarely over the heart of Nevada’s failure factories and took the first big whack at the public school monopoly that has been killing the futures of so many of our children...

(Larry Sand) – June 9, 2015 — The state known for flashy neon, quickie divorces and Wayne Newton shows is now ground zero for private school choice. On its website, the Nevada State Education Association informs us that vouchers (and other private school options) are unworthy because, among other things, they offer “no...

(Andy Matthews of NPRI) – I caught this news story from Channel 3 Las Vegas the other day,...

“Wholesale reform needed to improve Nevada education” (Chantal Lovell of NPRI) – Anyone who has had an appliance...

(Jim Clark) – Incline/Crystal Bay residents, of all people, know the tyranny of a taxation system not based on taxpayers’ ability to pay—the real property tax.  We know all too well what happens when a rogue county government flaunts Nevada’s Constitutional mandate that “taxes must be uniform and equal” and applies a...