Scoring political points is more important to legislative Democrats than funding the programs they believe will improve education.
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If you want to see how the education establishment kills education reform efforts, look at what it has done over the past eight years to gut teacher evaluations.
The Nevada Legislative Session ends in nine days. Some of the most consequential bills have yet to receive a single vote.
Steve Sisolak once used detailed payroll data to show that firefighters were gaming the overtime system. As governor, he’s likely to decide the fate of a bill that would hide similar information.
The Nevada Legislature could pass a controversial gun control measure without even holding a public hearing.
The language in the bill banning bump stocks is still too vague. Red flag laws are a violation of due process. That’s according to Don Turner, president of the Nevada Firearms Coalition.
When public education fails, many say it needs more money. When Opportunity Scholarships succeed, those same people want to cut its funding.
Creating something successful and replicating that success at scale are two different things. The good news for students is that a new study shows some charter schools can do both.
Abortion advocates use the same technique as proponents of slavery did 160 years ago — dehumanize a marginalized group to deny them their rights.
It makes sense that Nevada’s existing medical care providers want to handicap new competitors. That doesn’t mean elected officials should be doing their bidding.
The long-awaited bill creating a new education funding formula is here. Many key details, however, are yet to be determined.
The Las Vegas City Council erred by preventing development at the Badlands Golf Course, according to Victoria Seaman, Ward 2 candidate for the council.
Moving the marijuana money into education makes political sense, but it’s not going to do anything to increase education funding.
Only the government could turn a business monopoly into an enterprise losing billions a year. It sounds impossible, but that’s what the U.S. Postal Service has done.
A dispute between adults shouldn’t take away from the amount of time students spend in the classroom.
I don’t care about a billionaire president’s tax return. I want to see all the tax returns of Harry Reid and his entire family, from the year he was elected to Congress to the day he retired.
Forget Washington, D.C. If you’re looking for an impending constitutional crisis, head to Carson City.
The priority for some environmentalists isn’t saving species, but limiting human development. That’s the takeaway from the Center for Biological Diversity’s newest plan, which would put a damper on Las Vegas’ humming economy.
Forget the record-high stock market. Politicians are the best investment money can buy. Consider what attorney general Aaron Ford has done for his former employer, law firm Eglet Prince.