LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — State and county leaders have been in Las Vegas Monday for a invoice signing ceremony of laws aimed toward fixing public schooling.
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo labeled SB 460 as a landmark schooling invoice.
“We are moving education forward in the state of Nevada and the numbers are proving that,” Lombardo stated at Mountain View Elementary Faculty.
Virtually a web page out of the legislative session in Carson Metropolis, Lombardo and Democratic Senate Majority Chief Nicole Cannizzaro have been seated subsequent to one another. However this time round, they have been in an elementary faculty in Las Vegas.
“It takes a long time turn a battleship, and education is a battleship,” Lombardo stated. “It’s a slow, arduous process to get to where you want to be.”
Lombardo desires higher pupil outcomes. Based on the state’s most up-to-date report card, one in three center schoolers have been proficient in studying, and one other one in 4 have been proficient in math on the Clark County Faculty District.
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo labeled SB 460 as a landmark schooling invoice. (KLAS)
Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo labeled SB 460 as a landmark schooling invoice. (KLAS)
CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert helps the invoice and the brand new schooling requirements it lays out, together with growing funding for the state’s Learn by 3 program.
“It provides us common language and a transparent road map for progress that our parents and our community not only deserve but have been asking for,” Ebert stated. “It unifies us all under a single statewide vision for excellence.”
The widespread message Cannizzaro and Lombardo shared on the press occasion was the significance of reaching a compromise to create a invoice that improved schooling.
To maneuver ahead, Cannizzaro relented on her opposition to Lombardo’s priorities for constitution faculties, which included providing faculty buses for constitution faculty college students.
“We want to make sure that no matter where public dollars are being spent, there’s accountability that comes with that. And no matter where it is that a kid is finding itself in the education space, they’re getting a great education,” Cannizzaro, D-Clark County, stated.
SB 460 additionally makes everlasting instructor pay raises that lawmakers handed in 2023. The invoice additionally invests about $10 million over the following two years to increase pre-k schooling.
Lombardo didn’t take questions from the media on the invoice signing.
