Moapa Valley Progress
Clark County officials announced plans last week to hold a series of Town Hall Meetings to get public input on a proposal to reorganize the Clark County School District (CCSD). A total of eight meetings are scheduled to take place at various locations across the county. One of those eight meetings will be taking place in the Moapa Valley.
The Moapa Valley meeting, which is being hosted by County Commissioner Marilyn Kirkpatrick, will be held on Thursday, August 4 at 6:00 pm in the Clark County Fairgrounds Fine Arts Building. Local residents interested in the state of public education in Clark County are encouraged to attend the meeting to give input on the proposal.
The series of meetings were mandated by Assembly Bill 394, which was passed into law in 2015. That bill tasked a committee, made up of a group of State Legislators, to devise a plan for the reorganization of the CCSD.
The goal of the bill was to reduce the top-down management of the CCSD and bring more decision-making about education down to the community and school level.
That committee hired education consultant Michael Strembitsky and has met with him over the past several months. In the process the committee has unanimously approved a preliminary plan for the reorganization which is now being subject to public comment.
The plan would reorganize the CCSD into school precincts where each school is its own precinct. It aims to give school principals more autonomy from the central administration. Each principal would make collaborative decisions regarding the unique educational needs of his/her school with the assistance of a school governance team made up of teachers, staff, parents and community members.
The August 4 Logandale meeting will be the only one in the series to be held outside of the Las Vegas valley.
Other meetings to gather public input will be held at the Henderson Convention Center (7/28 at 6 pm), Silver Mesa Recreation Center in N. Las Vegas (8/1 at 6 pm), Sierra Vista High School (8/2 at 6 pm), Northwest Career and Technical Academy (8/3 at 6 pm) Desert Breeze Community Center (8/8 at 6:30 pm) Clark County Government Center (8/9 at 6 pm) and Winchester Cultural Center (8/10 at 6 pm).
Keep an eye on next week’s PROGRESS for more details about this important local meeting.
