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* Our Pastapalooza dinner last month sold out, so I wanted to give Inner Circle members the opportunity to grab tickets first before I announce the event publicly next week.
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* Gov. Joe Lombardo has proposed a record infusion of $2 billion for Nevada’s public school failure factories. And there are two things we know about that…
* One, it won’t fix the problem. We’ve been hurling cash at the public schools in Nevada for decades and we’re still at the bottom of the list.
* School choice, which the governor has also actively proposed, it the only real way out. And by linking the infusion of more dough into the public schools with his $50 million school choice proposal, he’s expertly taken away the left’s primary objection.
* Two, it won’t satisfy the addiction some legislators have for dumping money into this budgetary black hole. No matter how much you give them, they always come back for more.
* So it should come as no surprise that a bill has been introduced in the Senate (SB 189) that would give $6.9 million to “Communities In Schools” to provide "integrated support services,
including, without limitation, services related to academics, basic needs, physical and mental health and social and life skills to pupils enrolled in public schools in this State."
* With taxpayers already forking out a ton of dinero for the public schools, why in the world should taxpayers shell out another $6.9 million to a private non-profit group? If they’re doing such good work, then raise money from private sources, not government grants.
* Communities in Schools, by the way, is the organization Democrat Rep. Susie Lee used to run. What a coincidence, huh?
* That Democrats are coming back to the well for more is no surprise. The disappointment, however, is that two of the thirty sponsors/co-sponsors of the bill are Republicans: Senate Minority Leader Heidi Gansert and termed-out Sen. Pete Goicoechea.
* Anyone who thinks Gov. Lombardo has a veto-proof minority in the Senate is deluding themselves. Peeling off one Republican to override a gubernatorial veto isn’t likely to be a heavy lift for Democrats.
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