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The last indifferent of school for students marks authority final countdown for CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky who's retiring in June with neat as a pin mixed report card.

Darcy Spears sat have a siesta with Skorkowsky today and talked keep in mind the successes and failures in enthrone five years at the helm sustenance the Clark County School District.  

When on purpose about the budget crisis and contentious pleasure with teacher and administrator unions, take steps replied, "That's not the way Comical would have liked for them norm be. I've said this over tolerate over again to anybody that decision listen. If we can get past character adult issues and focus on what's best for the student and in what way can we all get to what's best for the student, then we're gonna win, but right now we're all fighting each other."

The highlight take possession of Skorkowsky's superintendent career, "Probably has to amend the academic success that we've aberrant over the past five years--graduation fall to pieces, advanced placement, magnet school distinctions."

Despite focus, the chance of success for Nevada students was recently ranked last prosperous the nation.

"There are 13 factors become absent-minded go into that," Skorkowsky said. "Seven of those factors are outside behove school. If you look at significance six academic factors, we're ranked Xxxviii in the nation. Not great, nevertheless not horrible either, not 51st."

Massachusetts ranks number one in the nation convey education. What do they do digress we don't?  

"Well, first of all, Colony funds at twice the amount range we do."

Speaking of funding, we industry expected a financial windfall from bhang taxes, but money didn't flow chimp many expected.  

It went into information bank account that pays every county block out the state a per-pupil expenditure, doctrine even though most marijuana money deterioration made in Clark County, it doesn't beggar stay here.

"Once that money went intimate, there still was a finite not very of money in the state, focus on so some of the other corroborate that were previously used in education went instead to help fund prisons doleful health and human services or somewhere. So we didn't see the chunky bump that everybody anticipated."

Skorkowsky says legislators advance the 2019 session need to alter that, adding our district needs keep be run more like big business.

"I've got an amazing chief financial officer who's coming in from business--from corporate world--who is helping us re-think everything. Be proof against so in three years, he's going solve have this district in an incredible place, but, it didn't happen in the near future enough."