Nevada’s S.B. 460: A Radical Leftist Plan to Wreck Our Schools

Nevada’s S.B. 460, pushed by Senate Democrats on April 29, 2025, is a bureaucratic nightmare dressed up as education reform. This massive bill, packed with mandates, commissions, and unfunded costs, threatens to crush local schools, trample parental rights, and destroy school choice. With Nevada’s education system already the worst in the nation, this radical leftist power grab must be stopped before it becomes law.

S.B. 460 is a love letter to big government. It forces new academic achievement plans (Section 1) on elementary schools, demanding they meet state-set goals or face punishment, like firing principals. This top-down control ignores what each school needs, swapping local solutions for piles of paperwork. Our kids need real help, not more red tape from Carson City.

The bill’s changes to accountability reports (Sections 6, 8) are a sneaky way to hide Nevada’s teacher shortage. By tweaking how vacancies are counted, it makes the crisis look less bad without fixing it. Parents deserve honest data, not fudged numbers. Worse, the School District Oversight Board (Section 9) hands power to unelected officials, letting them override elected school boards. This is a direct attack on local democracy, silencing parents and communities.

School choice takes a brutal hit. Charter schools, which succeed by being different, get tied down with public school truancy rules (Section 27). The Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program (Sections 30, 33) faces new reporting burdens, designed to choke private school options. School choice gives families freedom, but S.B. 460 wants the state to control everything.

The bill’s price tag is outrageous. It includes unfunded mandates (Sections 8, 14, 28, 30, 34) that could cost millions, with no plan to pay for them. Over $316 million in appropriations (Sections 71, 78) are thrown around, including $250 million for schools tied to salary hikes (Section 76). But these funds come with so many rules, districts will waste time begging for cash instead of teaching kids.

New commissions, like the Commission on Recruitment and Retention (Sections 37, 38), just add more government bloat. Nevada’s teacher shortage won’t be fixed by $500,000 studies (Section 71) or endless meetings. We need real fixes: better pay, safer schools, and trust in teachers, not more desk-jockeys. And the bill’s safety cuts are terrifying. It scraps fingerprinting for teacher license renewals (Sections 43, 60), relying on an FBI program instead. Saving time is great, but not if it risks our kids’ safety.

Early childhood literacy grants (Section 13) sound nice but let private companies grab taxpayer money with little oversight. Public funds should help kids, not pad corporate profits. And forcing teacher-to-administrator ratios (Section 14) on every school ignores differences between rural and urban areas. Local schools, not state bureaucrats, should decide staffing.

Nevadans must fight S.B. 460 because it betrays freedom, local control, and our kids’ future. Education works when parents, teachers, and communities make decisions, not when radical leftists in Carson City dictate terms. This bill drags Nevada toward a centralized, failing system that kills innovation. Call your legislators, show up to hearings, and demand they vote no on S.B. 460. Our children can’t afford this disaster.

Top 10 Reasons S.B. 460 Must Be Stopped

1. More Government Control: It forces schools to follow state plans (Section 1), taking power from local teachers and parents.
2. Hurts School Choice: New rules choke charter schools and scholarships (Sections 27, 30, 33), limiting family options.
3. Hides Teacher Shortages: Changing vacancy reports (Section 8) fakes progress instead of hiring more teachers.
4. Unelected Power Grab: The Oversight Board (Section 9) lets appointees overrule elected school boards.
5. Massive Costs: Unfunded mandates and $316 million in spending (Sections 71, 78) burden taxpayers with no clear plan.
6. Risks Kid Safety: Cutting fingerprint checks for teachers (Sections 43, 60) puts students in danger.
7. Useless Commissions: New panels (Sections 37, 38) waste money on studies instead of fixing schools.
8. Corporate Handouts: Literacy grants (Section 13) give taxpayer cash to private companies with little accountability.
9. One-Size-Fits-All Rules: Forcing staff ratios (Section 14) ignores what different schools need.
10. Buries Schools in Paperwork: More reports and plans (Sections 1, 6) steal time from teaching kids.

Use the opinion button in the upper-right corner of this page (link below) to let them know this bill is a no-go for our kids.

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12863/Text

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