Teachers union, legislators meet today to discuss law, federal school funds

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CARSON CITY - The first of two scheduled legislative committee hearings will be held today to discuss Nevada potentially receiving federal education funding. The hearings will specifically address proposed changes to a Nevada law that prevents student test scores from being used for the purpose of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

Currently, Nevada is ineligible to fill out a grant application for its share of $4.35 billion in federal “Race to the Top” education funding because of Nevada Revised Statute 386.650, which prohibits student’s test scores from from being used for teacher evaluation.

The statute was passed in 2003 when Nevada legislators were focused on No Child Left Behind, according to Lynne Warne, president of the Nevada State Education Association (NSEA).

“It was part of a very large and broad sweeping bill that dealt with the implementation of NCLB,” she said. “Since then, we have a new administration and in their final guidelines for Race to the Top, we cannot have a prohibition to linking student test scores to teacher evaluations.”

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Another union selling its rank-and-file down the river. But then I don't have any use for Nevada's teachers' unions, which are completely in bed with districts.