Report urges Nevada to overhaul school funding formula

From The Las Vegas Sun: A report by American Institutes of Research says that Nevada should ditch its anachronistic education funding formula, which favors sparsely populated counties, in favor of a method that also awards dollars based on the number of children living in poverty and learning English. Nevada is one of only two states — the other being South Dakota — that doesn’t account for English language learners, students in poverty or the gifted and talented, which generally are more expensive to educate, according to the report. Nevada also shortchanges districts when it comes to the cost of special education students.