k-12 education

Nevada has been awarded a series of federal grants totaling nearly $75 million over the next five years to help children from preschool through high school improve their reading skills. The Interi...

The final Harry Potter movie is out this summer. It's a tale of magical kids attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, being empowered, and learning wicked things like Arithmacy, Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, and Quiddich. This makes some real-world parents uncomfortable. Children learning things we don't know, things beyond the "straight and narrow", things that empower them, is scary.

School just started and every Republican state lawmaker has already received a failing grade from Nevada’s teachers’ union.
The Nevada State Education Association (NSEA) has released its 2011 legislative session report card and the 16 Assembly and 11 Senate Republicans all earned an F, according to the statewide association.

Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday signed into law the five pieces of legislation that implement the state budget for the coming two years.They are the K-12 education bill, the Appropriations and Autho...

The five bills necessary to implement the budget and end the 2011 Legislative session began moving through the Legislature Saturday.They are the K-12 education bill, the Appropriations and Autho...

CARSON CITY — Legislative Democrats intend to spend almost $1 billion more than Gov. Brian Sandoval requested in his $6.3 billion budget, according to a spreadsheet obtained from Gov. Brian Sandoval’s budget office today.
The majority of the $968 million in spending replaces budget cuts in K-12 education, higher education and social services, which Democrats have long argued will eviscerate the state’s social safety net and destroy the state’s education system.

Gov. Brian Sandoval Monday vetoed the bill funding K-12 education for the next two years because of the funding Democrats added back into those budgets."I veto and return this bill because it incre...

(AP) - Among the drastic changes planned for Nevada's K-12 education system - ranked at the bottom of the nation for high school graduation - few strike a nerve like a plan to stop paying highe...

Teachers and other K-12 education advocates have complained that Nevada's funding for K-12 education is pathetically low compared to the rest of the nation.They point to basic per pupil support ...

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – A two-hour review by the full Senate today of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed two-year, $5.8 billion general fund budget spent a lot of time on what his spending plan could mean well into the future.

By Mike Clifford / Public News Service
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers take another stab today at dealing with the $1 billion-plus in cuts Gov. Sandoval has proposed for K-12 education, when the Joint Finance K-12 Subcommittee meets this morning. Gary Peck, executive director of the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA), says recent polls indicate there is little support for Gov. Sandoval's hard line against taxes.

CARSON CITY – Superintendents have asked legislators to open up collective bargaining laws.
They asked for more flexibility with the money the state gives them. Currently, school districts bargain with teachers and teachers’ unions for funds.
That means that the governor’s proposal to cut teacher pay 5 percent is not a foregone conclusion.
Districts still have to negotiate with teachers to ensure a 5 percent cut happens.

By Andrew Doughman / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Third-graders who cannot read at a third-grade level would not advance to fourth grade under a proposal from Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The assertion rests on common-sense logic, and Sandoval has been promoting his idea since he was on the campaign trail.

By Andrew Doughman / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s primary education system would change dramatically under the proposals Gov. Brian Sandoval delivered tonight in his State of the State address.
He would use student achievement data to evaluate educators, provide merit pay for effective teachers and end extra pay for longevity and advanced degree attainment.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – When it comes to the budget problems looming for many states over the next two years, a report released this week by the National Conference of State Legislatures makes one point very clear: Nevada is No. 1, and not in a good way.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Nevada’s worst in the nation 14.3 percent unemployment rate for July does not even begin to tell the real story of the state’s dismal job situation, a state agency reported today.

Nevada is preparing to compete in round two of the federal Race to the Top grant program. Only two states that applied, Tennessee and Delaware, received funding from the first phase of the competition.

CARSON CITY – A study showing how well Nevada’s students perform on achievement tests, released today by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, concludes they fare no better than mid-range, and often well below, students in other states.

Trying to plug a nearly one billion dollar hole in the state budget has been a bit of a roller coaster ride.

For Immediate Release: February 18, 2010
GOVERNOR UNVEILS EDUCATION GIFT CERTIFICATE

Governor Gibbons has notified state lawmakers they will be ordered back to Carson City on February 23rd to convene a special session of the State Legislature to deal with the state’s nearly $900 mi

Saying that proposed cuts of up to 22% would severely crippled Nevada K-12 education, the President of the Nevada Education Association said today that not raising taxes is not an option, as far as sh

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