Nevada follows national trend in families seeking alternatives to public schools
By Ian Whitakern, Las Vegas Sun
It’s National School Choice Week, which seems like an appropriate time to take stock of how the school choice movement is doing in Nevada.
In two words: Pretty good.
School choice activists, buoyed by local conservative advocacy groups like the Nevada Policy Research Institute, have been particularly muscular in the Silver State recently following the state’s adoption of education savings accounts, which provide state funds for students to attend private schools. Similarly, enrollment and demand for charter and magnet schools also has been high.
After the data was released recently on NV being at the bottom of indicators of quality of life (except bankruptcy, they’re 1st) this is no surprise that they are giving themselves a pat on the back for school choice. They have destroyed their public school system so parents have to make hard choices. The only thing that matters is that the students are actually being educated and prepared to compete, intellectually, with the rest of world. Let’s see how they are testing in a couple of years.