[olecapt]

You are not in Nevada you are in Las Vegas. CCSD is a reasonably good large school system.

Nevada does badly as a state only because it is almost entirely one large and one medium sized school system.

Big urban school systems are never as good as their suburban and rural equivalents.

But compare CCSD to LA or Chicago or Phoenix and it does alright.

It will not outrank Palo Alto. Then again no where does.

[photobuff42]

My friends in the district say that more cuts are coming. Good luck in your job search.

[Superman12]

Originally Posted by olecapt

You are not in Nevada you are in Las Vegas. CCSD is a reasonably good large school system.

Nevada does badly as a state only because it is almost entirely one large and one medium sized school system.

Big urban school systems are never as good as their suburban and rural equivalents.

But compare CCSD to LA or Chicago or Phoenix and it does alright.

It will not outrank Palo Alto. Then again no where does.

Sorry Olecapt. I have to disagree with you. My son was attending Arbor View High School two years ago. Great neighborhood with great looking high schools. We were so disappointed on what they were teaching him that we moved him to a private school. I have talked with many different parents from all parts of Las Vegas. They all have the same conclusion that the educational system of Las Vegas is deplorable.

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by Superman12

Sorry Olecapt. I have to disagree with you. My son was attending Arbor View High School two years ago. Great neighborhood with great looking high schools. We were so disappointed on what they were teaching him that we moved him to a private school. I have talked with many different parents from all parts of Las Vegas. They all have the same conclusion that the educational system of Las Vegas is deplorable.

As compared to where? With the exception of Meadows the local private schools don't do any better than the good public high schools which includes Arbor View. And Ad Tech is about as good as Meadows. For instance on National Merit Semi-Finalists Meadows 12, Coronado 8, PV 7, Clark 6, Gorman 6.

For a bright kid you use Ad Tech or one of the Community College High Schools or a magnet program. For a regular kid the good high schools should be sufficient.

[Kalbo]

We just moved to Southwest Il, prior to that my son has attended CCSD from K-8th grade. He was in all accelerated classes. We got here and found out he would be going to a small school. The school is very focused on academics. School day is a an extra hour compared to Vegas, and has to periods of math. Before they would place him in honor classes he had to take a placement test. He did well enough to be placed in Algebra Honors. Based on that I think CCSD did there job in educating him, of course I did my part at home.

[clcfball11]

Originally Posted by photobuff42

My friends in the district say that more cuts are coming. Good luck in your job search.

I simply don't understand this. Why would more cuts be coming if they are accepting applications for every subject under the sun?

Seems kinda misleading to me. I guess we'll see. Thanks for the info.

[dynimagelv]

cuts are coming but remember that the new Gov wants everything based upon performancea LOT of teachers may get the big boot finally

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

cuts are coming but remember that the new Gov wants everything based upon performancea LOT of teachers may get the big boot finally

I think it reasonably clear that no one has the faintest idea how to measure teacher performance.

LA Times just did a series on the subject using the performance of the classes taught by a teacher over a couple of years. Basically how did the class compare to others from start to finish...so a teacher did good if the class advanced more than a grade and bad if the students advanced less than a grade.

The findings were that you could find the good and bad teachers but tell little about the middle. And that no one had the faintest idea who was good or bad...teachers thought well of turned out to be poor. Teachers thought borderline or less turned out to be great.

We do not have such statistics for Clark County unfortunately.

And you would still have the reasonably common case where only 20% of the students at the start of the year are there at the end.

So Sandoval can claim he is going to reward performance...but he has no way to do it.

[dynimagelv]

best way would be to fire everyone walking and start over....but prolly NOT the most practical

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

best way would be to fire everyone walking and start over....but prolly NOT the most practical

Always a charming idea...but how would you tell the new ones were any better?

The other always appropriate answer is to fire the administrators and hire more teachers. That is to make sure we can't measure how well or badly the teachers are doing.