It’s hard to believe it’s been one month since the launch of the Fund Our Future Nevada coalition to advocate on behalf of our students and their need for better funded public schools.
Since then we’ve had a lot of traction on our website, FundOurFutureNV.com, several members of the community have signed the pledge for support and we’ve received many inquiries about our campaign and interest in being a part of the coalition. We want to thank you for taking the pledge to support increased funding. If you signed up to receive the newsletter we will update you periodically on our efforts, on new and relevant information and education funding proposals. For the first newsletter we want to elaborate on our initial proposals.
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It’s hard to believe it’s been one month since the launch of the Fund Our Future Nevada coalition to advocate on behalf of our students and their need for better funded public schools.
Since then we’ve had a lot of traction on our website, FundOurFutureNV.com, several members of the community have signed the pledge for support and we’ve received many inquiries about our campaign and interest in being a part of the coalition. We want to thank you for taking the pledge to support increased funding. If you signed up to receive the newsletter we will update you periodically on our efforts, on new and relevant information and education funding proposals. For the first newsletter we want to elaborate on our initial proposals. Read More: There's a catch-22 scenario working against student achievement at Nevada schools that receive an extra $1200 per eligible student via Senate Bill 178.
SB178 (2017) is a bill that established support for underperforming English Learners (ELs) and/or students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (FRL), who are performing in the lowest quartile of student achievement, and who are not currently enrolled in a ZOOM or Victory school. While the announcement of new SB178 schools came as a great help to the schools that were selected, it left the 52 unrenewed schools with a new burden to figure out a way to retain programs and staff that had been hired with the new funds. Read More: |
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