It’s not about what education programs to cut, parents and employees told Clark County School District officials Tuesday night. Raising taxes should be considered as the system confronts an anticipated 2011-12 budget shortfall of up to $400 million.
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CARSON CITY — The state’s colleges and universities will eliminate programs, lay off hundreds of employees and leave thousands of students with nowhere else to go if the governor’s budget goes through, the institutions’ presidents said Friday.
The higher education system’s governing Board of Regents is expected to hear a proposal Friday that would eliminate Nevada State College, Desert Research Institute and two northern Nevada community colleges as one way of dealing with potential budget cuts.
An education reform bill would allow bad teachers to remain too long in classrooms before being fired, Assemblyman Ira Hansen told other members of the Assembly Education Committee on Wednesday. Hansen objected to provisions in an education reform plan that would set up a system of merit pay and create policies to dismiss poor employees.
Two major bond rating agencies have downgraded the financially stressed Clark County School District as it prepares for Thursday’ s refinancing sale of $110 million in school construction bonds.
