Education

Education must deliver a better product using all the tools in the tool bag.

I subscribe to what I like to call the “5 Bucket Plan.” This plan would legislatively disaggregate school budgets using “5 buckets” instead of a barrel of money. Each component of the school district would be funded from its own “bucket” of money: Administration, teachers, children’s programs, maintenance, and capital improvements. Responsibly linking objectives and goals this way would increase fiscal accountability and performance.

In addition to the 5 Bucket Plan, I believe we can improve Nevada’s education system in the following ways:

Empower local principals to have fiscal flexibility meeting the needs of their individual schools.

Utilize community volunteers as mentors for students in need of remediation.

Push for alternative path teachers from the pool of Nevada’s unemployed to meet the needs of teachers to fill the ranks.

Encourage creative methods to deal with education budget shortfalls: more vocational and career technical education; and Focused Curriculum Magnet Schools.

Partial vouchers for private school students – this way, we give incentive for the the public school to ecourage private school attendance without harming the Nevada Plan per pupil for funding public education in our state.