Abuse of CCSD special-needs students met with secrecy and indifference
In Nevada Journal’s new eight-part series, Catch Me If You Can, Nevada Policy Research Institute Vice President Steve Miller investigates the culture within Clark County School District that allows continued abuse of the district’s most vulnerable students.
Nevada Policy Research Institute
The Nevada Policy Research Institute fights for your personal right to be free from the constraints and abuses of an ever-growing crony government, by conducting fact-based research and grassroots education that holds government accountable and transparent to the very people it is designed to serve.
Nevada government pay gap highest in the nation, new data shows
When measured as a percentage of private-sector earnings, Nevada local government workers were by far the highest paid in the nation last year, according to newly released Census data. Last…
CCSD asks state Supreme Court to delete transparency law
The Clark County School District is once again wasting tax dollars on frivolous legal battles designed to keep the public in the dark and the district immune from consequence for its repeated, willful violations of the state’s open records law.
Union membership rates expose need for recertification
This article was originally published by the Reno Gazette-Journal. Each summer, my organization requests, pursuant to Nevada’s Public Records Act, a series of records from local governments across the…
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