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Nevada's Educational Challenges

Matthew Ladner


By embracing school choice, Nevada can duplicate the success of neighboring Arizona in addressing the biggest challenges facing K-12 education.

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Getting Plucked in Nevada

How Government Covertly Increases Your Tax Burden

Steven Miller


You'd never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.

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Nevada's Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna


Where does Nevada stand on school choice and other K-12 education issues? At least one thing is clear: Nevadans would like a K-12 school choice system that offers opportunity and access to a range of schooling options.

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The Federal Land Stranglehold

- and What Nevada Can Do About It

Charles F. Barr


The federal government's tight grip on Nevada's land is causing economic harm – and, in many cases, genuine hardship – to local developers, workers, renters and would-be homeowners.

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NPRI's 2007 Roundtables

Career & Technical Education in Nevada

Robert Schmidt, Ph.D., John Ziebell


Many of Nevada's high school graduates are more inclined toward - and perhaps better suited for - an education that emphasizes technical and practical skills, rather than academics.

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A TASC for Nevada

Economic benefits for the Silver State of TASC-style spending control

David Tuerck, Ph.D., Paul Bachman, MSIE, Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver, MSF


Legal constraints on government spending redound to the benefit of the economy and substantial improvements in living standards.

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Teaching the Forgotten Half

Career and Vocational Education in Nevada's High Schools

Robert Schmidt, Ph.D.


For years, Nevada's public education system has ignored the particular nature of its community job base.

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Thoroughly Inadequate:

The 'School Funding Adequacy' Evasion

Richard P. Phelps, Ph.D.


A new study that recommends doubling public expenditure on Nevada's public schools is deeply flawed.

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Frequently Asked Questions (and Hysterical Allegations) Regarding TASC

Michael J. New, Ph.D., Charles F. Barr, Steven Miller


In principle, the idea behind the Tax and Spending Control amendment currently proposed for the Nevada Constitution is a good one.

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Does School District Size Matter?

Robert Schmidt, Ph.D., Alan Schlottmann, Ph.D.


Recent studies suggest that students, teachers, parents and taxpayers are all better off where school districts are smaller in size.

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