DELUSIONAL DINA: Titus Tries Steals Credit From Nevada Educators

When the Nevada Department of Education announced Friday that the state’s high school graduation rate jumped nearly four points, from 81.6% in 2024 to 85.4% for the class of 2025, it was a rare piece of good news for families. A total of 34,175 students earned their diplomas this year, with several districts seeing meaningful improvement.

And then, right on cue, Dina Titus jumped onto X to take a victory lap. “.@ClarkCountyNV had one of the largest increases in high school graduates this year in Nevada. I am working closely with local leaders to ensure our students are equipped with the resources they need to succeed.”

Nice tweet. Zero truth.

Let’s get one thing straight: A member of Congress does not decide graduation requirements, instructional standards, teacher hiring, district funding formulas, or any of the reforms that actually move graduation numbers. That’s the job of the Nevada Legislature, the Nevada Department of Education, and local school districts.

Titus can’t raise the graduation rate any more than she can turn Lake Mead into a beachfront resort. The federal government doesn’t set Nevada’s credit requirements, proficiency benchmarks, attendance policies, or intervention programs, all of the things that actually influence whether a student graduates.

In other words, if Nevada’s graduation rate goes up, the credit belongs to Nevada educators, state policymakers, and local leaders, not a D.C. congresswoman who hasn’t written a single education reform bill that changed anything in Nevada classrooms.

President Trump has been clear: education should be returned to the states where parents, local leaders, and communities, not D.C. bureaucrats or grandstanding politicians, are in the driver’s seat. Nevada’s success this year proves the point perfectly: when states lead, students win. When Washington meddles, nothing improves.

Nevada’s graduation gains come from:

• Targeted state-funded credit-recovery programs
• District-level interventions for at-risk students
• New post-pandemic attendance and remediation efforts
• Local reforms to support English learners and high-needs campuses

These are state and district decisions, years in the making, none of which were initiated by Titus, influenced by Titus, or meaningfully touched by Titus.

The reality? She is a federal lawmaker with no authority over Nevada’s graduation requirements and Nevada’s improvements happened in spite of Washington, not because of it. Dina Titus did not help raise the graduation rate. She didn’t pass a reform, implement a policy, or change a rule that made any measurable difference.

State leaders did the work. Local educators did the lifting. Students earned the diplomas. Titus just tweeted.

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