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Sandoval, Bush work to bring Florida-style education reforms to Nevada
Opportunity scholarships, ending social
promotion would increase student achievement
By Victor Joecks
Nevada Policy Research Institute
Nov. 1, 2011
It's easy to be cynical about education and education-reform efforts in Nevada. For decades, we've known that Nevada's education system needs dramatic improvement. And for decades, unions, led by the Nevada State Education Association, have told Nevadans that spending more money would improve our schools. Thus, spend we have.
Over the last 50 years, Nevada has nearly tripled its inflation-adjusted, per-pupil spending. Despite this massive influx of money, education results have remained stagnant. Moreover,Nevada now has the lowest graduation rate in the country, at 41.8 percent.
Gov. Brian Sandoval, however, hasn't been content to simply pump more money into a broken system. During an early October visit by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Sandoval made clear that he's committed to implementing education reforms like those that produced stunning educational improvement in Florida over the last decade.
The education reforms that Bush and Florida lawmakers began implementing in...
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Reforming Nevada's public employees pension plan
NPRI study shows PERS' unfunded liability
is $41 billion, with only 34 percent funded
By Andrew G. Biggs
NPRI
Nov 3, 2011
...the true funding health of Nevada PERS is far poorer than most realize, due to accounting standards that are far more lax than those required for private-sector plans. Using fair-market valuation, which is endorsed by the vast majority of professional economists, is used by financial markets to value liabilities and which is required of private-sector plans, Nevada PERS' funding ratio falls from 70 percent to around 34 percent and its unfunded liabilities would rise from about $10 billion to almost $41 billion...
Reno Businessman Speaks Out As New Effort Launched To Fight Excessive Regulations
By Sean Whaley
Nevada News Bureau
Oct 25, 2011
Businessman Raymond Pezonella said today he knew the burden of complying with government regulations had hit a new level of absurdity after an all-day audit resulted in an $8.99 gas tax charge to his company because of a trip to California that his workers had failed to record.
“This took two of my people all day long,” he said. “That guy tied up my conference room all day to do this....
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