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Thursday, January 7, 2010

K-12 cuts proposal could help — or hinder — Gibbons - Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

K-12 cuts proposal could help — or hinder — Gibbons - Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun:


"Democrats and Republicans agreed that the chances of success for many of the ambitious education proposals floated Wednesday by Gov. Jim Gibbons range from slim all the way to none. But that wasn’t necessarily the point.

Gibbons’ plan — which reads like the wish list of a conservative education reformer — appears aimed at exciting the conservative Republican base, while offering a way to cut the state budget.

It certainly has put his political opponents on the defensive."