Last week, HOPE for Nevada, in partnership with Educate Nevada Now, along with parents, educators, students and education advocates launched the statewide Fund Our Future Nevada campaign and coalition at Tomiyasu Elementary School to make the case for appropriate funds for Nevada K-12 schools. The group formed out of a combined interest in educating the community about the need for increased funds for schools and awareness of tax laws made in the name of education that have n

The recreational marijuana tax is another example of how taxes that were sold to voters as a supplement to education are in reality being supplanted to somewhere else, namely a “rainy day fund.” And considering Nevada public education’s bottom-of-the-barrel ranking on so many lists, and a 30 percent proficiency ranking in 4th and 8th grade reading and math scores, most reasonable people would agree that yes, this is a rainy-day situation. Nevada’s General Fund also gets riche