Nevada Supreme Court justices are considering whether a petition that would direct state education dollars to private schools or tuition can move forward.
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Lawyers argued over a law that allows petitions that have qualified for the ballot to be withdrawn before voters get a chance to weigh in.
A Carson City District Court judge ruled Wednesday that a law allowing the withdrawal of initiative petitions is constitutional.
Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton said Wednesday she’s been waiting ‘a damn long time’ to put the more than $500 million into education budgets.
A pair of tax proposals from the Clark County teachers union that would raise more than $1 billion per year for Nevada schools will head to the Legislature next year.
Proposed cuts to Nevada’s education budget are expected to disproportionately impact the state’s poor and minority students, and advocates and some lawmakers are pushing for the Legislature to find ways to keep those programs whole.
Carson City Judge James Todd Russell has blocked a sales tax increase proposed by the Clark County Education Association, but the teachers union has vowed to continue its effort.
It could be up to two years before the dormitories damaged in an explosion last week could be ready to house students again, UNR officials said.
The Washoe County School District’s trustees voted 6-1 to fire Superintendent Traci Davis on Monday, after allegations that confidential information was leaked to a former employee who is suing the district.
The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents voted Tuesday to pay the 3 percent raises even though it will cause a $6.4 million budget shortfall.
The Nevada System of Higher Education says it won’t be able to fully fund a 3 percent cost of living adjustment for its workers after an error left its budget $6.4 million short.
The first major overhaul of Nevada’s education funding formula in more than five decades is itself getting a re-write in the Assembly Ways & Means Committee on the session’s final day.
After Nevada lawmakers used marijuana excise tax money to boost per-pupil funding in schools, they were at pains to find money to fund school safety and the popular Millennium Scholarship.
Gov. Steve Sisolak and legislative Democrats are advancing a two-pronged plan to add money to schools: First, use a 10 percent excise tax on recreational marijuana sales, and second, authorize county governments to raise the local sales tax.