Education Reform
Parents know their children better than any politician or school district ever could. That’s why Nevada Policy fights to empower parents with the freedom to choose the educational options that best suits their children’s unique needs.
Since 1991, Nevada Policy has fought for the right of every student in Nevada to have access to a quality education that helps prepare them for a fulfilling future. We believe such a basic right is the foundation for a truly prosperous and free Nevada.
Featured Articles
Splitting Up CCSD Won't Address District's Problems
There is no doubt that a lack of accountability plagues large school districts. That includes the Clark County School District, which has around 300,000 students. But if voters approve the…
ACT Scores: Nevada is the Worst of the Worst
Nevada’s American College Test scores are the worst in the nation. Nevada students not only earned the lowest ACT composite score (17.3) among U.S. states in 2022, a drop of…
Merit Pay for Teachers Benefits Educators, Students
It is long past time for Nevada, beset by an acute shortage of teachers, to embrace merit pay as a means to retain and reward its best educators. Teachers are…
Recent News
Episode 6: Post-election our education system still sucks
Free to Offend Episode 6 The election has come and gone, and for most Americans this week of 2020 feels remarkably similar to the several weeks before…
Episode 1: 2020 is so crazy, Critical Race Theory is actually going mainstream
Free to Offend: Episode 1 Nevada Policy Communications Director Michael Schaus talks with Nevada Policy Vice President Robert Fellner about the concept of “critical race theory”—the academic theory behind the…
Nevada parents need ESAs now more than ever
Las Vegas Review-Journal | Aug 9, 2020 It looks like the failings of Nevada’s inflexible, top-down education system will once again be borne by the most vulnerable. The recently…
Microschooling: A new educational option for parents
With many parents scrambling to keep up with the seemingly ever-changing (or non-existent) plans for traditional schooling in a pandemic era, a different option is emerging: Microschooling. Microschooling is a…