AG Aaron Ford announced yesterday that Nevada will opt-in to get a $285 million settlement that it previously rejected back in August. [TNI]
After all the drama last year, CCSD’s employee vaccine mandate is in limbo as school resumes amid a COVID surge. (Also a friendly reminder to pay attention for small pedestrians–especially in school zones today.) [RJ]
Brent Dennis entered an Alford plea to charges of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his wife, attorney Susan Winters. [RJ; 8NewsNow]
Judge Robert Clive Jones grants pause on geothermal construction near sacred hot springs, rare toad habitat. [Nevada Current]
Incompetence is just one factor. Other factors include a powerful teachers union which protects its worst members, a poor in-state higher education system, a generally transient and poorly-educated community, and a community which in general places a low priority and value on education. The ridiculously large size of the District is another factor. And finally, the District's Board is mostly feckless.
The causes of CCSD's many failures are multi-faceted. It is a situation that will likely never change. It's very sad. It is one of the biggest barriers to diversifying the economy and attracting out of state companies to move here.
The anti-union vitriol is such nonsense. Unions created the middle class. You like your 40 hour work week? Your weekends? Your minimum wage? OSHA protections? Thank a union. And the teacher's union is NOT powerful. If you say that, you clearly do not know a teacher.
As far as CCSD stopping us from diversifying our economy? That's nonsense too. Yeah, CCSD sucks, but that is not stopping us from having a diverse economy.
Teachers aren't labor in the same way that, say, coal miners are labor. Unionizing teachers in the context of public education is a horrible idea for many reasons. It is the primary factor in the downfall of American public education since the 1970's. Good teachers are not helped or incentivized by their union. But bad teachers are protected. Bad system.
I have told this story before, but it is worth repeating.
I came into the CCSD system as a student in the late 60's. At that time, it was one of the worst ranked school systems in coutnry.
Today, CCSD is still one of the worst ranked systems in the countyr.
(Blame the misspellings on hte education I received from CCSD).
Even minimal competence in the CCSD bureaucracy and leadership would have moved the needle up a few points over the past 40 years.
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January 5, 2022 8:37 pm
12:10 your illogic is that what was once needed may not be needed in the same way now.
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CCSD – a synonym for incompetence.
Incompetence is just one factor. Other factors include a powerful teachers union which protects its worst members, a poor in-state higher education system, a generally transient and poorly-educated community, and a community which in general places a low priority and value on education. The ridiculously large size of the District is another factor. And finally, the District's Board is mostly feckless.
The causes of CCSD's many failures are multi-faceted. It is a situation that will likely never change. It's very sad. It is one of the biggest barriers to diversifying the economy and attracting out of state companies to move here.
The anti-union vitriol is such nonsense. Unions created the middle class. You like your 40 hour work week? Your weekends? Your minimum wage? OSHA protections? Thank a union. And the teacher's union is NOT powerful. If you say that, you clearly do not know a teacher.
As far as CCSD stopping us from diversifying our economy? That's nonsense too. Yeah, CCSD sucks, but that is not stopping us from having a diverse economy.
Teachers aren't labor in the same way that, say, coal miners are labor. Unionizing teachers in the context of public education is a horrible idea for many reasons. It is the primary factor in the downfall of American public education since the 1970's. Good teachers are not helped or incentivized by their union. But bad teachers are protected. Bad system.
I have told this story before, but it is worth repeating.
I came into the CCSD system as a student in the late 60's. At that time, it was one of the worst ranked school systems in coutnry.
Today, CCSD is still one of the worst ranked systems in the countyr.
(Blame the misspellings on hte education I received from CCSD).
Even minimal competence in the CCSD bureaucracy and leadership would have moved the needle up a few points over the past 40 years.
12:10 your illogic is that what was once needed may not be needed in the same way now.
Your sentence construction sucks.