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By Paul Takahashi (contact) 
Published Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 | 3:08 p.m.
Updated Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 | 4:59 p.m.
The Clark County School Board is considering several options to alleviate overcrowded classrooms, including rezoning thousands of students and switching to a year-round schedule. The School District will present six options to the School Board for a preliminary discussion during tonight's meeting, which starts at 4 p.m. This presentation comes a little over a month after voters overwhelmingly rejected a tax initiative that would have built two new elementary schools in the southwest valley to address overcrowding issues. Although Clark County is no longer the fastest-growing school district in the nation – as student enrollment has largely plateaued since the ...
6% of 1000 = 600?
That's not just a calculation error or typo. That's a major lack of basic number sense.
@ jpc:
Southwest valley schools are growing at an average rate of 6 percent annually. This growth amounts to an additional 600 students per year in the southwest valley - not just one school.
Do what you got to do CCSD, just don't come to the taxpayers looking for more money.
You get plenty, just stop wasting it and become more efficient.
Maybe if illegals didn't pop out babies once a year the schools wouldn't be overcrowded. There sure are people moving here anymore so someone please give me another reason besides illegals.
Deport all illegals....problem solved.
Oh my gosh the SW side of town has a lot of students. I mean what happened, did kids just pop out of nowhere?
Oh, I know what happened the school district screwed up in their projections and now want more money to pull their fannies out of the fire.
CCSD= taxpayer funded incompetence.
I will gladly pay taxes for any American kid. I draw the line where someone else drew a line between two countries. That line is between Mexico and the United States. I will pay for any dumb trailer trash kid to go to school in America, but if he/she is from the other side of the line I won't. My argument makes sense.
The year-long learning environments offer relief for parents, the economy and the kids' continuing failures to access their greatness.
Learning year round is how most of the world, you know, that little blue ball in the big black sky, learns how things are so they can find their roles, improve their capacities and contribute to our social fabric in meaningful and satisfying ways.
CCSd has a bundle of issues to wrestle with; the kids have a world of learning to do, very limited resources and ONE chance to get good at thinking, learning, achieving, processing, developing and finding their powers.
That's why we do schools - we owe them a chance, a better one than we had. It's time to get with tomorrow.
Nevada needs to enact "Right to Educate" legislation, freeing our citizenry to send their children to whatever public/private/charter school best meets their needs, satisfies basic curricular requirements, and meets the required safety & security standards. We have accepted the responsibility of educating our young -- but there's nothing that says we have to stick with a 19th century assembly line approach, with its stifling bureacracy and petulant unions.
At least here on the "north shore" (nice way of alluding to NLV), I'll bet that if there were competitive vouchers available, we could find enough usable unoccupied commercial space and qualified teachers & teacher wannabes willing to support longer days, longer years, and higher standards to put CCSD to shame.
NLV-Indep13,
At best your voucher/"Won't Back Down" movie approach is shortsighted and foolish. All the "solutions" you're proposing have been tried for DECADES in other states and other districts. None of them improved student success, ALL of them make things worse.
The fact that you are citing "ALEC model legislation" tells us you're more likely a lobbyist than a parent.
Year-round is the norm in this world. Deal with it. Teachers need to be put on a full-time schedule with similar annual leave accruals as the rest of the world. 184 7-hour days just does not cut it. I see that several states are pushing the school calendars and school days out of concern for STUDENT NEEDS aka academic reasons.
It appears that the numbers that are presented are not complete enough to conclude what percentage growth really is. I think it can be clearly concluded that the sporatic attitude in the news articles for the last couple of years shows that someone is being taken for a ride or is asleep at the wheel. i would start to review the connection between the ccsd board and those who inform them. I thought the bond that CCSD wanted in November to "REMODEL" schools was to solve our problems. Now we have an overcrowding issue? when did this happen? Damn you stork, drop kids off in other places!