NPRI believes that the way to improve Nevada education is to empower parents and give them more control over the education their children receive. Nevada's monolithic educational apparatus has for too long been impervious to the free-market reforms that are a prerequisite to a quality education system. NPRI's mission on education policy is to inform Nevada's citizens, elected officials and educational leaders of the need to inject free-market principles into this area of public policy.

Board minutes reveal Carolyn Edwards voted for top administrators'  increased benefits — though she's now telling her constituents she didn't.

Nevada's leaders need to change their focus from funding to student achievement.

Incremental tax increases and "broader" taxes over the years paid for a hyperinflation in public education spending, but to what end? Educational achievement is not better. In some ways, it's actually worse.

Little-known contract revisions allow CCSD Superintendent Rulffes to make more money after "refusing" a pay increase.

The K-12 education establishment is trying to pretend that a $200 million funding increase is a devastating cut.

Howard Fuller, a former black-nationalist community organizer and long-time education reformer, sees education reform as the civil rights fight of the 21st Century.

Anthony Colón, an education consultant, says Hispanics must have a voice in the education reform movement.

In order to truly improve educational quality in Nevada, public education officials must first look at their own behavior.

Governor Jim Gibbons' proposed education reforms represent a step in the right direction.

How Nevada's largest school districts are (and aren't) complying with the state's empowerment school mandate.