Families who are considering a move to Las Vegas in order to be closer to all that fun may need to think twice before doing so. The entire state is suffering a drought on educational funding, and Las Vegas Schools are no exception.
Despite a recent Review-Journal poll that had 25 percent of respondents saying that education should be the top priority for the Nevada Legislature, Governor Jim Gibbons, is instead pushing for improved traffic congestion.
Among the many issues voters are concerned over, class-size, per-pupil spending, and all-day kindergarten are tops. Las Vegas Schools, along with the other districts statewide, have the nations lowest per-pupil expenditure, highest-class sizes, and a pressing shortage of teachers.
Speaker of the Assembly, Barbara Buckley refuses to blame the lower tax revenue the state is experiencing on a slower housing market. Mediocrity in education funding guarantees mediocrity, she says. Buckley says that educational issues were put last in the budget. Senator Dina Titus disagrees by stating that When the state has to make up the hole for property taxes at the local level, that doesnt leave a lot for education and...
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