Gibbons Says No to Funding Education Shortfall. What a Surprise.
It takes Gibbons all of half a day to say no to using a $40 million boon found by State Treasurer Kate Marshall’s office to help fund the education shortfall. Nice. At least Debbie Smith and her caucus tried. How many times can you try to lead a horse to water? I think we will [...]
Nevada’s Education Budget Cuts
Nevada Speaker Barbara Buckley will hold a press conference Monday at 11:00am asking Governor Gibbons to “reconsider his proposed education budget cuts.” It’ll be interesting to hear what alternatives Speaker Buckley and the state Democrats are proposing in place of Gibbons’ proposed 4.5% cuts and whether their plans include both k-12 and higher [...]
What’s So Funny about Online Education?
I don’t know if you caught it, but NPR recently broadcast a series on the increasing popularity of online education in the United States. This is definitely true in Nevada where online education has become an increasingly important aspect of the state’s higher education strategy. Hey, with our poor high school to college rate, [...]
