Nevada’s charter schools have grown by double digits while the state’s largest school district keeps shrinking. Both trends draw from the same funding pool — and CCSD is the one losing ground. Nevada’s public school enrollment peaked at roughly 500,000 students during the 2019-20 school year and has since fallen to about 474,000, according to… Continue reading Every Student Who Leaves for a Charter School Takes CCSD’s Per-Pupil Funding With Them
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Nevada Charter Schools Enroll 70,000 Students. None of Them Get Dedicated Funding for a Roof.
Nevada’s charter school sector has nearly tripled in a decade. What it hasn’t gained along the way is a dedicated source of money to build or maintain the buildings those 70,000 students learn in. Gov. Joe Lombardo praised Nevada’s charter school sector at a Charter School Association of Nevada event this spring, saying the state… Continue reading Nevada Charter Schools Enroll 70,000 Students. None of Them Get Dedicated Funding for a Roof.
Nevada’s Lake Mead Recreation Area Got Its Name in 1947. Congress Didn’t Decide Who Was in Charge of It Until 1964.
Six million visitors a year come to boat, swim and camp on Nevada’s largest reservoir without ever noticing that two separate federal agencies still answer for different pieces of it — a split in authority that traces to a recreation area Congress didn’t fully hand to the National Park Service until 28 years after the… Continue reading Nevada’s Lake Mead Recreation Area Got Its Name in 1947. Congress Didn’t Decide Who Was in Charge of It Until 1964.
A Private 1960 Deal Desegregated Las Vegas Casinos. Nevada Didn’t Pass Its Own Civil Rights Law Until Five Years Later.
The Nevada Equal Rights Commission that investigates discrimination complaints across the state today — in housing, employment and public accommodations — didn’t exist when Las Vegas casino owners agreed in 1960 to stop turning away Black customers. That 1960 agreement was a private deal with no legal enforcement mechanism; the actual law banning discrimination in… Continue reading A Private 1960 Deal Desegregated Las Vegas Casinos. Nevada Didn’t Pass Its Own Civil Rights Law Until Five Years Later.
LVMPD Asked the Justice Department to Review Its Own Shootings in 2012. Outside Assessors Were Still Grading the Results Four Years Later.
The framework Las Vegas police still use to investigate their own shootings — a critical incident review process, mandatory reality-based training, and a use-of-force policy split into separate sections for firearms and less-lethal weapons — traces directly to a federal review the department asked for itself in 2012, after a string of shootings brought unwanted… Continue reading LVMPD Asked the Justice Department to Review Its Own Shootings in 2012. Outside Assessors Were Still Grading the Results Four Years Later.
A 1911 Executive Order Stitched Together the Fort Mojave Tribe’s Reservation From a Closed Army Fort. The Nevada Piece of It Now Funds a Casino.
The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe’s reservation exists today because federal officials in 1911 pieced it together out of a decommissioned military post, adjoining federal land and leftover railroad-grant parcels — the scraps left after decades of displacement and forced assimilation. The Nevada slice of that patchwork, in Clark County, is what today anchors the tribe’s… Continue reading A 1911 Executive Order Stitched Together the Fort Mojave Tribe’s Reservation From a Closed Army Fort. The Nevada Piece of It Now Funds a Casino.
A Teamsters Pension Fund Tried to Buy Off Nevada’s Senator With Las Vegas Real Estate in 1979. It Took Federal Courts Four Decades to Let the Fund Go.
The Teamsters’ Central States Pension Fund spent decades financing and getting burned by Las Vegas, from casino construction loans that went bad to a bribery scheme aimed at Nevada’s own U.S. senator. A federal court finally lifted four decades of supervision over the fund’s trustees in 2023 — six months after the same fund needed… Continue reading A Teamsters Pension Fund Tried to Buy Off Nevada’s Senator With Las Vegas Real Estate in 1979. It Took Federal Courts Four Decades to Let the Fund Go.
Nevada Merged Seven Water Agencies Into One in 1991. It Just Helped Decide the Colorado River’s Rules Through 2027.
The federal government issued its Record of Decision on new Colorado River operating rules on Aug. 21, 2026, locking in how Nevada, six other states and Mexico will share a shrinking river through the coming decade. The agency answering for Nevada’s side of that math is the same one seven local water agencies built in… Continue reading Nevada Merged Seven Water Agencies Into One in 1991. It Just Helped Decide the Colorado River’s Rules Through 2027.
Nevada Had No Way to Vet Casino Owners Until 1949. Bugsy Siegel Opened the Flamingo Three Years Before That.
Nobody vetted Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel before Nevada let him build and run a casino on the Strip — because for the first eighteen years after the state legalized wide-open gambling, nobody in state government had the legal authority to vet anyone. The licensing gap that let Siegel’s money and associates walk into the Flamingo unchecked… Continue reading Nevada Had No Way to Vet Casino Owners Until 1949. Bugsy Siegel Opened the Flamingo Three Years Before That.
Nevada Ran Boulder City as a Federal Reservation for 29 Years. It Handed Back the Land in 1960.
Federal engineers didn’t just build a dam in the Nevada desert in the early 1930s — they built and ran an entire town, with the legal authority to decide who could live inside its gates. That authority kept Black workers out of Boulder City entirely, funneling them instead into West Las Vegas, the neighborhood that… Continue reading Nevada Ran Boulder City as a Federal Reservation for 29 Years. It Handed Back the Land in 1960.
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