A first-year teacher at the Clark County School District will make $15.25 an hour — just in benefits. Teachers at the top of the pay scale make over $100 an hour in pay and benefits.
Victor Joecks
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Victor Joecks is a Review-Journal columnist who explores and explains policy issues three days a week in the Opinion section. Previously he served as the executive vice president of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Victor is also a staff sergeant in Nevada National Guard. Originally from Washington state, Victor received his bachelor’s degree from Hillsdale College.
Congress should ban semi-automatic weapons, and the U.S. should have remained in the Iran deal. Obamacare contained significant advances, and Congress should fix it, not repeal it. That’s according to Regent and Congressional District 4 Democrat candidate Allison Stephens.
A survivor of Florida’s high school shooting is now parroting false information about Nevada’s stalled background check initiative.
If the Clark County School District’s human resource department had gotten its way, Jason Wright, the teacher accused of kicking a student, never would have been a teacher. Jason Wright, however, is the husband of Trustee Deanna Wright, who’s now School Board president.
Records, including police body camera footage, from the October 1 tragedy should be released immediately. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department needs to be more transparent and more gun control isn’t needed to increase security on the Strip. That’s according to sheriff candidate Tim Bedwell.
A fifth-grade student says Jason Wright, a Clark County School District teacher and the husband of Board President Deanna Wright, kicked and yanked him in early March.
Last Thursday, Trustees held a press conference and demanded that Gov. Brian Sandoval call a special session to provide money for teacher raises. District officials used outright falsehoods to make their case.
Unless it involves killing unborn children, liberals aren’t much for choice these days. Consider what’s happening to Alfie Evans in England, which is even more a lefty paradise than California.
The Clark County School District is interviewing six superintendent candidates on Friday, and Trustees say they’ll offer the job to someone next Wednesday. Regardless of whom they select, here are three things you already know about the district’s next superintendent.
Republican Attorney General candidate Craig Mueller says his primary opponent has been “inert” in the face of increasing crime. Mueller also pledged to take on the federal government if it came after Nevada’s recreational marijuana industry and fight to get federally owned lands returned to the state.
Most politicians would do anything they could to avoid disparaging veterans. Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen isn’t most politicians, and Sen. Dean Heller wants to make sure you know about it.
Last legislative session was the most anti-business session in Nevada’s history. In response, the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce decided to endorse some of the Democrats who voted consistently against its members.
The Clark County Registrar’s office can’t keep its numbers straight. It’s already admitted to improperly excluding 175 signers of a petition to recall Sen. Joyce Woodhouse. Now, there’s evidence suggesting it’s made hundreds of more mistakes in that recall and the one targeting Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro.
Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s largest grassroots conservative group, has yet to decide if it’ll support Sen. Dean Heller but will back attorney general Adam Laxalt’s bid for governor.
If you want to empower women, stop talking about the mythical gender pay gap. Equal Pay Day was last week. Democrat politicians and their media allies spent the day spreading the falsehood that women earn 80 cents for every dollar men earn.
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