Fixing Special Ed, Part 3:School systems have circumvented federal special-ed law for decades
Los Angeles, Texas, New York exemplify styles of noncompliance Read More
PERS releases Social Security numbers of over 100 retired and current judges
In an apparent attempt to skirt Nevada’s transparency laws, the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System has released the Social Security numbers and other identifying information of over 100 current and…
Expert critics of Common Core to face NDE officials in unique public events
Two nationally recognized educators — both critics of the controversial Common Core State Standards — are scheduled to participate next week with representatives of the Nevada Department of Education in…
Federal education officials: Nevada can’t charge dad to look at children’s records
LAS VEGAS — Remember the Nevada dad who was told it would cost him over $10,000 to see the records the State of Nevada has on his children, a story…
Double-dipping ex-purchasing director reportedly repays school district
Update: On the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 25, Nevada Journal received a response to its Sunday, Nov. 23 inquiry from CCSD Press Secretary Melinda Malone. See inset paragraph below. A…
Former NSEA staffer accuses union of racial discrimination
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada State Education Association may be in hot water over what one former employee is calling racial discrimination and a breach of contract. Jaime Reborn, a…
Charter-school parents fear the creeping CCSD mindset
LAS VEGAS — Two years ago, parents packed a convention center ballroom to rally around the prospect that a new charter school would bring school choice to downtown Henderson. Two…
Medicaid patients to be the surprise victims of margin tax
LAS VEGAS — If the margin tax passes, it will claim a group of unlikely victims: Medicaid patients. That’s according to the owner of a large, Southern Nevada nursing home…
Harry Reid’s gifts to ‘greedy’ insurance companies were hidden behind populist, anti-insurer rants
LAS VEGAS — As Harry Reid in 2009 was assembling the liberal wish-list that would eventually be passed into law as Obamacare, he rarely missed any opportunity on the floor…
CCSD police dispatcher transferred from post as new details emerge in Angela Peterson death case
LAS VEGAS — A Clark County School District police dispatcher who’s been named a defendant in the Angela Peterson wrongful death lawsuit was transferred out of her police department post…
Mom-and-pop business worries about indirect impacts of margin tax
LAS VEGAS — Randy and Kathalynn Thwing may have to pick up their lives and move out of the state they’ve called home since the ‘80s if voters approve the…
Administrator on CCSD payroll working for another state government?
LAS VEGAS — Has one of the Clark County School District’s department honchos found a way to eat taxpayer cake in two separate states at the same time? It appears…
Once a prominent union member, now he’s a union target
For 30 years he represented the Clark County Fire Department as its public information officer. Now Robert Leinbach is being sued in federal court by the department’s union. The complaint…