Nev. Education Cuts May Never Be Healed After Session
Las Vegas
History suggests that Nevada's public schools may never recover from the budget cuts being required of them by legislators after last weekend.
Consider what has happened since 2001, when the Clark County School District increased class sizes in grades 4 through 12 in order to save tens of millions of dollars. Larger classes meant fewer teachers to pay.
"I thought we would work our way back out of that in a year or two," said Superintendent Walt Rulffes, who as the chief financial officer at the time was responsible for signing off on the operating budget. "But it never happened....
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