What the dueling education bills in the Nevada Legislature would do

Dueling education bills on the table in the Legislature propose sweeping education changes aimed to improve accountability and retention.

Democratic Sen. Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro proposed the Accountability, Transparency, and Efficiency (EDUCATE) Act, and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo put forward the Nevada Accountability in Education Act as one of his five priority pieces of legislation.

With Democrats in the majority in the Legislature and with Lombardo’s veto power, policymakers will have to find compromise to push an education package across the finish line.

Cannizzaro’s Senate Bill 460 includes expanded Pre-K, increased accountability for public schools and publicly funded charter schools, teacher pay raises to the extent money is available and a prescribed ratio of teacher