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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.



The solutions Nevada needs are right next door

Educational choice brings many benefits in its wake.

Matthew Ladner


A comparison between Nevada and neighboring Arizona reveals the solutions the Silver State needs to meet its most pressing challenges in education.


Aristocracy in Nevada

The educational elites suppress the will of the people.

Andy Matthews


Increasingly, the actions of those who govern reflect the will of a small but influential group of special interests, rather than the will of the governed. One won't find a more egregious example of this than the public education system, nor a place where the consequences for education have been more disastrous than in Nevada.


Democrats want school choice, too

Support for educational freedom transcends party lines.

Mary Stubblefield


Little doubt remains here in the Silver State that the education system is broken and in dire need of significant reform. The lackluster performance of the state's public school system is something Nevadans of all political persuasions recognize, as thousands of students graduate from high school each year without the basic skills needed to be successful either in college or in the work force.


Nevada's education vanguard

We must expand, not restrict, the development of charter schools in Nevada.

Ricci Rodriguez-Elkins


It's time to bring public charter schools to the forefront of Nevada education. Battle-worn and born of hardy pioneering stock, many of Nevada's chartered public schools are emerging as successful, avant-garde educational models.


Big Labor's favorite tool

Intimidation is at the heart of unionism.

Steven Miller


During and after the Nevada Democratic Party's divisive caucuses last week, both camps — Clinton/teacher union and Obama/Culinary union — accused the other of attempting to intimidate voters.

Significantly, however, the very caucusing system that permitted union members and others to be subjected to threats and intimidation had earlier been approved by the leadership of both unions.


Coming out of the dark

Government transparency would add credibility to both sides of the budget battle.

Andy Matthews


There's nothing particularly new, or even all that interesting, about the kafuffle taking place over Nevada's public K-12 education budget.


Still gross

The Gross Receipts Tax remains a horrible idea.

Steven Miller


The Nevada special interests that regularly plump for a "broad based business tax" always couch their advocacy in the language of good public policy.

It's interesting, therefore, that the particular tax they’ve worked hardest for - a statewide gross receipts tax - is actually one of the worst public policy choices conceivable, according to non-partisan public finance experts.


Little Oliver asks for more

Nevadans press for more charter schools, and the board of beadles blanches in fear.

Steven Miller


Have you ever wondered why government seems so utterly, repeatedly failure-prone when it comes to meeting the education needs of Nevada kids?


Lessons from Texas

We should recognize the benefits of end-of-course exams.

Joe Enge


Recognition is beginning to grow across the country that end-of-course exams are a superior alternative to proficiency tests as a requirement for high school graduation.


Talking to the hand

School boards have turned the Open Meeting Law upside down.

Joe Enge


Nevada’s Open Meeting Law was designed to generate public discourse and debate. Yet school boards have, ironically, used it instead as a means of avoiding frank discussion with the public — thus turning the law on its head.



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