Balderdash! I went to Las Vegas with $500 and, boy oh boy, did they ever... 
give me an education!
This probably helps explain why Nevada continues to send Dingy Harry Reid back to Washington D.C. to antagonize the rest of the country.
Why just education?
Hard to believe that any school district could be worse than the one in DC.
I don’t know about that.
There are a lot of sharp people who were taken to school there.
Makes sense, nobody knows how to count beyond 21.
They base it on spending per pupil and teacher to student ratio?
Must be a teacher’s union project.
These reports ought to kill tourism to ‘Vegas in a hurry, no?
Here is a real beauty: A comment on the article from a teacher-
“Second, they then jump to stats saying 25% of Nevada students aren’t proficient in reading. Hmmmm. On July 3rd CCSD test scores were published. 70% of 4th graders WERE proficient in reading.”
Last time I checked, that means 30% were NOT proficient.
Apparently she isn’t a math teacher.
” high pupil-to-teacher ratio and a lower-than-average per-pupil funding.”
And those two “criteria” somehow make LV the worst?
How about the quality of the teachers? The condition and adequacy of the facilities? The competence of the administrators? Parent involvement?
Yeah, I realize these are subjective measurements, but to label a district as the “worst” or “ten worst” and then try to splash it in the headlines seems unfair and ingenuous.
I’m amazed the teacher’s union doesn’t tout the students’ performance. Wouldn’t that be a measurement of how good the educational system is?
Money grab report! The schools with the highest student to teacher ratio outperform every school with the lowest student to teacher ratios in the Clark County school district. Each of these outperforming schools costs less per student.
A demonstrated result: Putting more teachers on staff and paying them more results in worse performance. The more staff, the more money spent, the worse the result. The most expensive school with the lowest ratio of teachers to students has the worst performing students in the district.
The theory has been tried, shown to be a failure, in this district specifically. While there are many conclusions and factors to consider, the one theory that has been utterly disproven is spending more improves the end results.
The only element that matters is the students’ performance. I don’t see that taking top priority in this “study.”
The criteria used are straight out of the teacher’s union playbook — not results-oriented.
No need for education when they have the brain Harry Reid running things for them.
Balderdash! I went to Las Vegas with $500 and, boy oh boy, did they ever... give me an education!
Those are standards that only teachers' unions could love.
I call B.S.. What matters are results. And even those are the responsibility of the students.