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Aug 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Did the Legislature really defund 600 Opportunity Scholarships? No, here is the truth. This is a🧵 1/
NV law caps donations for OS vouchers at $6.6 million. In 2021 the legislature passed a temporary, one-time expansion of the cap by $4.75 mill. Any one-time funds not used during the 2021/22 school year could carry over to the following year. 2/
May 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: When everyone celebrated the $500 million “increase” for #NVed K-12, we started crunching numbers. When the budget bill showed discrepancies we started to investigate. In the end, we have concerns over the proposed per-pupil funding outcomes. 1/4
It’s important to clearly communicate funding details and help manage expectations. So far it seems the $500 million is mostly a RESTORATION of cuts which is important, but people need to know schools are NOT receiving a “huge” increase in funding. So we have questions: 2/4
