Rise in poverty threatens Nev. education system
By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun
A top-to-bottom reorganization of the Clark County School District. A program that allows the state to take over struggling schools. The most sweeping school choice program of any state in the country.
Nevada suffers no shortage of programs concocted by lawmakers to improve education, but will any of them make a difference? Not if Nevada continues to see some of the worst child poverty in the country, argue some experts.
Even though the Silver State did manage to rise out of last place in this year’s Kids Count education rankings, the state is faring even worse when it comes to the number of children living in poverty.
