District chief financial officer Jason Goudie estimated that the cost of column advancement over
two years is between $30 million to $45 million. It depends on how many teachers qualify.
How can the district pay for raises the legislature didn’t provide funding for? It can’t,
notwithstanding mumblings about better-than-expected interest earnings.
For months, the union has been laying the groundwork for a strike and on Tuesday, the union
emailed teachers seeking authorization a strike. Eventually.
“Starting next week, we’ll be holding an online strike vote. CCEA members will decide whether
to authorize a strike at the beginning of the next school year,” CCEA president Vikki Courtney
wrote.
State legislators will be setting Nevada’s two-year budget over the next four weeks. Proclaiming
there could be a strike in four months won’t create any sense of urgency.
CCSD announced in May that it would hire attorney Robert Freeman to conduct an independent investigation into the hiring of Jason Wright. Wright is the husband of school board president Deanna Wright. He stands accused of physically assaulting children and the district has admitted that former superintendent personally intervened to help him get a job. Six months later, you’re paying Freeman’s bills but can’t see his findings.
Last week, the Clark County School District gleefully trumpeted a “historic agreement” with the Clark County Education Association.
The transgender regulations proposed by the Clark County School District violate the privacy rights of students. If passed, those regulations will allow teachers to use curriculum that exposes even young students to transgender concepts. School districts also don’t have the right to compel speech. That’s according to Karen England, executive director of Nevada Family Alliance.
Nevada’s education establishment hopes you’re bad at history. Otherwise, you’ll identify what’s missing in its push for more funding.
Nevada is a right-to-work state so teachers don’t have to join the Clark County Education Association. If they do join, however, they can only leave by submitting written notice to the union between July 1 and 15. Support staffers and education employees throughout Nevada have the same opt-out window.
Why would Kim Wooden, deputy superintendent of the Clark County School District, attend a disciplinary meeting for second-year teacher Jason Wright? For most teachers, she wouldn’t, but Wright is no ordinary teacher. He’s married to Deanna Wright, president of the school board. District leadership has given him special treatment since before he even became a teacher.
State government has created the collective bargaining laws that have put the district on the brink of financial insolvency. Here are three ways to fix that.
Ryan was one of six students Wednesday supposedly upset about budget cuts. Be real. Adults — be they parents, teachers or union officials — turned these kids into human shields and media props.
