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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 8,543 people, 3,151 households, and 2,366 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 93.2/km² (241.2/mi²). There were 3,432 housing units at an average density of 37.4/km² (96.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 87.11% White, 1.00% African American, 1.53% Native American, 0.68% Asian, 0.20% Pacific Islander, 3.59% from other races, and 0.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.87% of the population. There were 3,151 households out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.9% were non-families. 18.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.08. -- Source: Wikipedia.com
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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 8,543 people, 3,151 households, and 2,366 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 93.2/km² (241.2/mi²). There were 3,432 housing units at an average density of 37.4/km² (96.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 87.11% White, 1.00% African American, 1.53% Native American, 0.68% Asian, 0.20% Pacific Islander, 3.59% from other races, and 0.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13.87% of the population. There were 3,151 households out of which 38.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.9% were non-families. 18.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.08. -- Source: Wikipedia.com
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Nevada 2000 Census Population Profile Map| Fernley | Nevada | United States | |
| Population | 8,543 | 1,998,257 | 281,421,906 |
| Median age | 34.8 | 35 | 35.3 |
| Median age for Male | 34.5 | 34.5 | 34 |
| Median age for Female | 35.1 | 35.6 | 36.5 |
| Households | 3,151 | 751,165 | 105,480,101 |
| Household population | 8,543 | 1,964,582 | 273,643,273 |
| Average household size | 2.71 | 2.62 | 2.59 |
| Families | 2,366 | 498,333 | 71,787,347 |
| Average family size | 3.08 | 3.14 | 3.14 |
| Housing units | 3,432 | 827,457 | 115,904,641 |
| Occupied units | 3,151 | 751,165 | 105,480,101 |
| Vacant units | 281 | 76,292 | 10,424,540 |
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Should Nevada copy New Orleans?
01/18/2012
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina forced the closing of the failing, corrupt and bankrupt New Orleans public school district. Instead of reopening under school board control, the school district was instead opened with many schools reconstituted as independent charter schools. This meant no more big, central bureaucracy, no more union contracts and no more teacher tenure. Importantly, the dollars follow the student to whatever traditional public or public charter school he or she wants to attend. This creates much-needed competition between public schools. The results have been promising, and today, 60 percent of New Orleans kids attend charter schools.
In order to fund the $10 billion "Keep Our Educators Working Act," Obey wants to cut "about $500 million from the $4.35 billion Race to the Top fund, $200 million from the Teacher Incentive Fund that supports creation of pay-for-performance programs and $100 million from the Charter Schools Program."
How come so many Democrats in Congress are concerned about funding jobs for adults and so few are concerned about actually educating students? I mean, with policies that actually work?
(we just pay more money for the same talent pool), so maybe merit pay has the long-term potential to attract higher-quality teachers. At this point, we still don't know.Dr. Matthew Ladner (vice president of research at the Goldwater Institute and a policy fellow at the Nevada Policy Research Institute) still supports the idea of merit pay (for reasons including those given by Eric Hanushek) and wonders why merit pay worked in Little Rock, Ark., but not in Tennessee. He thinks more research on the right way to do merit pay is still needed.
Dr. Jay P. Greene (University of Arkansas) claims to have always been skeptical of merit pay (and now is even more skeptical). He reasons that creating market forces (via merit pay) won't work when the teachers are still operating within an uncompetitive, government-controlled monopoly. According to Dr. Greene, the whole system needs to change.
Since the Clark County School District (CCSD) educates 3 out of every 4 children and spends $3 out of every $4 on K-12 education in the Silver State, examining its budget provides a reliable estimate for the overall health of spending in Nevada. So how are we doing in this economic downturn?
Since the massive 2003 tax hikes began funding K-12 education in 2004, CCSD's total budget has increased 9.2 percent per-pupil, operating budget 9.8 percent and salaries and benefits for employees 12.1 percent. From the end of one recession to the end of another, CCSD has more money per-pupil, even after adjusting for inflation. Hardly tough sledding and we suspect the same story is true for most of the other school districts in Nevada.
So even with the "massive budget cuts" K-12 education has seen in the last two years, per pupil spending is still higher today than it was from 2000-01 through 2005-06 school years.
But as you've heard from media reports and pundits (almost daily) for the last two years is that education has been "cut to the bone."
Since the recession began at the end of 2007, CCSD's per-pupil spending from the general operating fund (yes, even adjusted for inflation to 2010 dollars) has declined by a "massive" 1.01 percent.
Yup, 1 percent budget reduction - right down to the bone.
But as I've stated numerous times, the operating budget ($6,900 per-pupil) isn't the total budget ($11,900 per-pupil). CCSD's total budget per-pupil has declined by an "impressive" 3.3 percent.
So are the children really suffering with a 1 percent decline in the operating budget and a 3.3 percent decline in the total budget? Hardly, it's the policymakers and bureaucrats that are "suffering" because they have to make adult decisions on how to use scarce resources more effectively.
2004 was the first full school year in which the 2003 tax increases (largest in state history) were available to fund education (also the first year available in detail from the Clark County School Districts detailed budgets). Since 2004, CCSD's general operating fund (what they consider the day to day operating budget for the school district) increased by 9.8 percent.
Salary and Benefits for CCSD employees grew by 12.1 percent - more than the operating budget and total budget.
This isn't surprising. After all, in 1955 the Clark County School District employed 1 person for every 20 students; today they employ one person for every 8.6 students. We have more employees in education earning far larger salaries and benefits, but is this investment producing the results we need?
Maybe it is time we start thinking about the outcomes for children rather than how many jobs K-12 education can provide for adults?
FYI, if you think 2004 is an arbitrary figure to select, that date is higher than 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 with 2000 being the low point in the last decade. And if you are worried about the recent budget cuts, these increases are AFTER the budget cuts. In fact, per-pupil spending devoted to salary and benefits hasn't gone down...AT ALL since the recession started.
performance 18th in the nation and gives the Silver State a “C” for education reform.The ranking was based on reading and math scores for fourth- and eighth-grade low-income students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. By focusing on low-income student achievement the researchers create a better apples-to-apples comparison between states.
The good news is that Nevada beats all of its regional neighbors in educating low-income students. Nevada's ability to provide above-average education to low-income students is worthy of praise, but Nevada's middle- and high-income students don't perform much better, which drags Nevada’s overall achievement levels down.
Policies like identifying effective teachers, rewarding good teachers, alternative teacher certification and expanded school choice can all help improve the quality of education for all children in the Silver State.
fund political campaigns for things that have nothing to do with education?
. So instead of spending $290 billion every biennium on a rigid and ineffective policy, Nevada should be working to experiment with other ideas like charter schools, virtual schools, pay-for-performance, value-added assessment, or even rethink the entire way we run a classroom.
) to wanting to hire up to 1,400 more. However, throwing $83 million in one-time stimulus at education to hire more teachers (which won’t improve student achievement) is just another example of bipartisan irresponsibility in the Silver State.
The L.A. Times collected data, via information request, on student achievement in the L.A. Unified School District, then handed the information over to the Rand Corporation for study. Using value added assessment, Rand and the L.A. Times found that there was a night-and-day difference between the quality of teachers at many schools. Some teachers were so bad that their students fell behind their peers. Others, so good that their students went from being below average to above average.
Unfortunately, union-imposed rules prevent school districts from rewarding high-quality teachers. Unions prefer the mind-dulling, lock-step pay system that rewards teachers for years of service rather than quality and, as a result, promotes mediocrity.
So why are civil rights groups ignoring their constituents? Dr. Peterson concludes,“By casting their lot firmly with teachers unions, the leadership of the NAACP and the Urban League hope to preserve their power and safeguard their traditional sources of financial support. Not only is this is a cynical strategy, it ignores where African-Americans and Hispanics are on the issue. Thankfully, the Obama administration is paying attention to the needs of low-income, minority communities and not to their purported leaders."
For more on this subject, check out my new commentary, titled "Civil rights groups’ education proposal misses the mark."
01/18/2012
Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman" is unforgettable.Even better is that this isn't the first time a Huffington Post writer has praised "Waiting for 'Superman.'"
Guggenheim directed An Inconvenient Truth and It Might Get Loud. However, even more so than the issue of global warming (somehow), the questions and concerns raised by Waiting for "Superman" are deep and effect us all. Public education in America is collapsing. Students are not being served, and neither are tax payers. Whether or not teachers' unions are partly to blame is open to discussion, but Guggenheim's film casts a light on that perspective.
And once you get a peek at New York City's "Rubber Room" for outcast teachers, you may never view the NEA and the AFT the same way again.
This is a monumentally important film. My father was a public school teacher for 28 years and I can think of few other areas in our society that deserve this type of urgent scrutiny right now.
“Waiting for ‘Superman’” opens next weekend in Las Vegas at Regal Village Square 18. Sadly, I don't think it's showing anywhere in the Reno area.
Here's the trailer. I can't wait to see this film and I hope you'll see it, too.
So even though Nevada's universities are mispending scarce resources on non-educators they are facing a tougher financial time than they're used to; but that doesn't mean we should hand over more tax dollars or dramatically increase tuition and fees on students.
Just looking at the last 10 years alone shows a large spike in tuition and fees for higher education. From the 2000-01 school year to 2009-10, UNLV's and UNR's published tuition and fees increased 73.9 percent and 64 percent, respectivly (inflation-adjusted). The most dramatic jump has been in student fees.
Note: total price includes tuition, fees, books, supplies and the cost of living on campus.
Table 2: Inflation adjusted price increase in Nevada higher education from 2000 to 2010.
Worse still, tuition and fees continue to rise. Even though the Consumer Price Index fell by 0.4 percent between 2008 and 2009 and has only grown 1.76 percent since last year, the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents approved a statewide 5 percent increase in undergraduate tuitions. The hyperinflation in higher education is simply unsustainable.
This rapid increase in revenue has not increased the quality of either UNR or UNLV. No student is learning 60 to 70 percent more, even though students are paying 60 to 70 percent more in tuition and fees than students from just 10 years ago.
Both universities must learn to live within their means while providing a higher-quality service at a reasonable (and probablay lower) cost/price. If we don't fix the problem now, then the higher-education bubble burst will - and the situation will be even more painful then.
01/18/2012
News 4 in Reno lets Chancellor Dan Klaich get the last word in on university bloat, which is unfortunate, because I had such a good comeback line.
Klaich claims, accurately, that UNR and UNLV are less bloated and more efficient with staffing than other universities. NPRI has never disputed that.
But like almost all universities, UNLV and UNR have been dramatically increasing the size of staff - specifically, highly paid non-educators (whom NSHE does not want to call "administrators"). In fact, UNLV and UNR are increasing the number of highly paid non-educators faster than the student body.
Worse still, they've increased the number of employees per student and the dollars per student, but neither UNLV nor UNR can graduate 50 percent of its students after six years.
But back to Klaich's bragging about the bloat - or non-bloat, as he see's it.
Is being more efficient than the average four-year university really something to celebrate? As I told Victoria Campbell from News 4, what Klaich is doing is akin to "bragging about being 150 pounds overweight instead of 200 pounds."
There is still a lot of work to be done - namely, graduating educated students rather than providing university jobs for adults.
01/12/2012
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At one point, Sorrentino got on the mic to yell, Happy New Year, while throwing his jewelry into the crowd.Also there was the very fashionable mom of two, Nicole Richie. The former reality star was on hand to support hubby Joel Madden, who performed a rooftop concert at the club with his band Good Charlotte.Sorrentino's Jersey costars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro were also in Vegas. Snookers tweeted many pics from the Palms Casino Resort with boyfriend Jionni LaValle and Beverly Hills Housewives stars Adrienne Maloof and hubby Dr. Paul Nassif.Ortiz-Magro hit Gallery inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. In other Bev Hills Housewives sightings news, Taylor Armstrong was in Chicago, where she had dinner at HUB 51 with a girlfriend. They were spotted later on in the wee hours sipping champagne at nearby Studio Paris.Meanwhile, I just got word that Monday's NHL Winter Classic is attracting celebs like A Gifted Man costars Patrick Wilson and Rachelle Lefevre as well as Boardwalk Empire star (and former college hockey player) Vincent Piazza and girlfriend Ashlee Simpson.PS: I'm sitting down with the Jersey Shore stars next week so make sure to come back here for all the scoop. Capiche?
01/12/2012
At one point, Sorrentino got on the mic to yell, Happy New Year, while throwing his jewelry into the crowd.Also there was the very fashionable mom of two, Nicole Richie. The former reality star was on hand to support hubby Joel Madden, who performed a rooftop concert at the club with his band Good Charlotte.Sorrentino's Jersey costars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro were also in Vegas. Snookers tweeted many pics from the Palms Casino Resort with boyfriend Jionni LaValle and Beverly Hills Housewives stars Adrienne Maloof and hubby Dr. Paul Nassif.Ortiz-Magro hit Gallery inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. In other Bev Hills Housewives sightings news, Taylor Armstrong was in Chicago, where she had dinner at HUB 51 with a girlfriend. They were spotted later on in the wee hours sipping champagne at nearby Studio Paris.Meanwhile, I just got word that Monday's NHL Winter Classic is attracting celebs like A Gifted Man costars Patrick Wilson and Rachelle Lefevre as well as Boardwalk Empire star (and former college hockey player) Vincent Piazza and girlfriend Ashlee Simpson.PS: I'm sitting down with the Jersey Shore stars next week so make sure to come back here for all the scoop. Capiche?
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