Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley is getting frustrated in her attempts to fund All-day K. Never mind the lack of evidence to prove it works. Never mind K-12’s salient problems are at the secondary level. Never mind budget projections require decreasing state spending increases. Never mind Governor Gibbons has safeguarded the K-12 budget from these spending […]

Difficulties in Reconciling the Political Rhetoric & Claims with the Research & Realities of All-Day Kindergarten
Joe Enge, Education Analyst, Nevada Policy Research Institute
Presentation to the Assembly Ways & Means Committee
May 3, 2007
Research Issues: Short lists of citations with major omissions of critical studies & peer reviews
• The booklet titled “Full-Day Kindergarten in Nevada: Learning to Learn” […]

For Immediate Release
Contact Andy Matthews
May 3, 2007
(702) 222-0642
Proponents of expanding full-day kindergarten in Nevada threaten to divert limited education funds to programs that studies indicate produce little or no lasting benefit to students, Joe Enge, education policy analyst at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, told legislators Thursday.
All too often, Enge said, the rhetoric from those […]

Will the interests of the many finally trump those of the few?
Nevada currently finds itself in a bizarre situation in which both everyone and no one are simultaneously in charge of the state’s public K-12 education system.
Senate Bill 540 was heard by the upper chamber’s Committee on Finance on the “do or die” day of […]

The semblance of accountability that we have in Nevada with the proficiency exams to graduate high school in Nevada is under assault with Senate Bill 312. The bill introduced by Senator Horsford with Senator Titus speaking in support will provide “alternatives” for students to get out of passing some proficiency exams, as amended the writing […]

Up-and-coming group making major progress
The Asian American Leadership Council of Nevada held its first policy summit in Carson City on Friday, April 20, and the event, which was designed to help the organization take its first step toward its goal of joining the mainstream American political process, was a great success.
Joe Enge, education policy […]

Senator Dina Titus showed her frustration Thursday afternoon in the Senate Finance Committee over an insignificant concession to balance the budget. The Secretary of State’s Office professionally responded to the governor’s request to adjust down their budget in light of the anticipated $137 million shortfall.
The minor Participatory Democracy Committee budget was reduced from roughly […]

You either like or dislike Ann Coulter. Some excerpts from Ann’s latest column titled LET’S MAKE AMERICA A ‘SAD-FREE ZONE’! include:
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill […]

Izzit.org announces free educational DVD for teachers. They write, “We’re excited to introduce the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, in our latest production titled Pennies a Day.” Izzit.org provides teachers with the tools needed to understand the free market and how the application of its principals are bringing millions out of poverty around […]

Governor Gibbons made it clear he will veto any education budget that includes all-day kindergarten, even willing to go into a special session if proponents try to ram it through as reported April 10th by Ray Hagar of the Reno Gazette-Journal. The partisan reaction will be all too predictable. There will be a public relations […]

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