CARSON CITY — Sweeping education reform soon could be coming to Nevada — if Democratic and Republican policymakers succeed in finding compromise.

Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo have merged their once-dueling education bills together, though negotiations continue into the last hours of the legislative session.

“The Office of the Governor continues to negotiate education priorities in good faith with legislative leadership,” Elizabeth Ray, spokesperson for the governor, said in a statement.

Cannizzaro’s Senate Bill 460 has absorbed parts of the governor’s Assembly Bill 584 , and a 154-page amendment was released Sunday, just a day before the end of the 83rd Legislature.

The latest version, which could still change, combines Cannizz

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