The School District Trustees should be looking at the top 3 States and Districts in the nation that have met the Annual Yearly Progress and the No Child Left Behind and ask them to be a “Sister State” to Nevada. All the District is doing is attempting to re-invent the wheel and testing expensive programs with the empowerment schools which are not doing very well at all. The “Sister State” can tell us for sure what works and what doesn’t. Nevada and the CCSD can now longer go it alone when other states out there are succeeding and their knowledge and information is there…just by asking them for their help!

It is now the Publics chance to VOTE for the most competent, honest and trustworthy Trustee for their District. It is imperative that the public be well versed in what each of the candidates are going to bring to the education table for our kids, our students and to get us out of the hole of being 50th in the nation. It is the VOTE for the Candidate that will assert themselves over the Superintendent making him realize that the Trustees are his boss – not the other way around. It has to be a candidate that will not accept Internal Investigations and Internal Audits and refusing to give the information of the investigations back to the public.. It has to be a candidate that will know that we have to put the public voice back into public education. We, the public, are going to be responsible for the vote we cast and who is going to run our school district for our kids. We have many wonderful candidates out there. Check them all out before you cast you Vote.

Johnson and Scow out! Thank You Nevada Supreme Court! Now I can get off my knees for awhile.

Again the School District Trustees have meetings at a time that no one can go to - 9 am? Even Larry Mason, who works full time, has stated he can't make alot of these early morning meetings.
They do not want the Public as part of their decision making. Ruffles holds Town Hall Meetings when no one can come and doesn't even advise his own communications Department, who put out Press Releases, when he schedules meetings for the public to come at the last minute.
They do not want the public to come and be part of the decision making. I would also say "get Terry Janison out and vote for someone that says they are going to "put the public back into public education" and who will give the public more time to talk at Board Meetings and someone that KNOWS what education is all about and is definately not afarid of the Hoffman and Ruffles.

I feel that the Superintendent position should be an Elected Position by the Public - NOT appointed by Trustees that have no idea what the world they are doing? The Trustees are run by the District and their husbands, instead of the District answering to the Trustees.

Also....everything that is going on Trustee Shirley Barber has stated for years would come back and haunt them if things were not taken care of properly and the public is not respected. She knows what she is talking about but the other trustees would not listen because they are being told what to do by the District, and their husbands and the Districts Legal Counsel. Now all of a sudden the Trustees are saying the same thing Shirley Barber has been saying for years. But instead of listening to her they have had numerous verbal, embarassing fights with her at Board Meetings to put her in her place. As they say...What goes around, comes around! Watch out for the new Trustees that will be voted in. These are people who respect the public and will demand that "putting the public back into education" is what is needed".