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Lawyers argued over a law that allows petitions that have qualified for the ballot to be withdrawn before voters get a chance to weigh in.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.
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.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Imprisoned for a Las Vegas fatal DUI, former NFL player Henry Ruggs is in a prison work program that placed him at the Governor’s Mansion.
Las Vegas’ budget has already taken a hit from one of the cases won by developer Yohan Lowie, whose stymied housing plans for a shuttered golf course led to extensive litigation.
The Board of School Trustees decided on an Illinois-based search firm to recommend candidates for the office.