Nevada Ed-Watch: CCSD 3/27/25

Clark County School District Board of Trustees

What is the Board of Trustees & what are they responsible for? The CCSD Trustees are decision-makers for the school district. Seven members are elected based on district; four are appointed representatives from the four largest municipalities in Clark County (Clark County, City of Las Vegas, City of Henderson, and City of North Las Vegas). They are responsible for providing oversight to the Superintendent and establishing District-wide policy. Trustees are accountable to work with their communities to improve student achievement.

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How often does the Board of Trustees meet? Trustees meet twice per month (second and fourth Thursdays) at 5 pm both virtually and at the Edward A. Greer Education Center Board Room (2832 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89121).

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Can community members engage at Trustee meetings? Decision-making bodies benefit greatly from hearing public input and multiple perspectives. Currently, members of the public can submit comments on agenda and non-agenda items through email or voice recording. Public comment can be provided in person, via email, or via voice recording. Email comments should be submitted to Boardmtgcomments@nv.ccsd.net. To submit a voice recording on items listed on the meeting agenda, call 702-799-1166. Voice recorded public comment is limited to 1 minute 30 seconds.

Thursday, March  27, 2025

Clark County School District Board of Trustees Meeting

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What happened at this meeting?

Trustees Approved the Consent Agenda (6-0)

Consent Agenda Highlights:

• Focus: 2024 Strategic Plan Update: Student Discipline
• 2025-2028 Distance Education Program renewal
• Adoption of CCSD Policy 5129
• Adoption of CCSD Regulation 5129
• Several facilities items

Explore consent agenda items here.

Trustees Approved a Notice of Intent for CCSD Regulation 5111 (6-0)

Trustees approved a Notice of Intent to amend Regulation 5111 – Age of Entrance and Enrollment Requirements. Changes include:

• Grammatical and capitalization updates
• The addition of a new section (F), which provides clarity on grade enrollment based on age as of Aug. 1

Explore the Notice of Intent.

Trustees Approved a Notice of Intent for CCSD Regulation 5123 (6-0)

Trustees approved a Notice of Intent to amend Regulation 5123 – Promotion, Retention, and Demotion of Students. Changes include:

• Align with updates proposed to 5111, including language refinements for consistency.
• Removal of redundant items outlined in other CCSD Regulations.
• Reorganization of provisions for clarity.

Explore the Notice of Intent.

Trustees Approved the Capital Improvement Plan – Revision 6 (4-2)

Trustees approved recommendations from staff on a revision to the Capital Improvement Plan, due to economic realities, marketplace saturation, and enrollment trends. Highlights include:

• Currently, the total capital need is $15.3B, with $7.7B available in bonds. The need is double the available resources.
• Construction expenditures tripled from about $30M in 2021 to over $100M in 2025.
• Enrollment is also trending downward.
• Recommendations are to site one of ten elementary school locations and pause school projects for at least one year to evaluate the strategic alignment of facilities, except for the Matt Kelly Elementary School project.
• A consultant has been hired to develop a facilities reinvestment master plan
• Updates to Board of Trustees, District planning group, stakeholder advisory group and community forums will happen throughout the process.
• Today is the first Board update on this process.

Recommendations discussed were:

• The presenters recommended first, to site one of ten elementary school locations and, second, to pause school projects for at least one year to evaluate strategic alignment of facilities (except for Matt Kelly Elementary School project).
  • Recommendation 1, to site one of ten elementary schools locations was approved.
  • Recommendation 2, to pause school projects for one year, was tabled, and will be discussed at an upcoming meeting. The Matt Kelly Elementary School project will continue as planned.

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Trustees Received an Update on the Teachers Health Trust

Trustees received an update on the Teachers Health Trust and the Trust’s annual audit, including revenue and expense analysis, healthcare access, and experience. Highlights of the presentation include:

• After incurring $55M in debt in 2021, THT is now debt-free and solvent.
• The 2024 Audited financial report issued a clean report, but has a note of concern, because as of June 30, 2024, benefit obligations exceeded net assets. However, by December 2024, that issue has been resolved.
• THT has repaid the $35M loan from CCSD.
• An increase in membership and rates helped raise revenue, and THT cut administrative costs, saving $20M and costing only 5.9% of total revenue (as compared to an industry average of 15%).

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Trustees Approved an Update from the Compliance Monitor (6-0)

Highlights of the presentation include:

• In 2015, AB 394 created an Advisory Committee to develop a plan to reorganize large school districts with more than 100,000 pupils enrolled. In 2016, the State Board of Education adopted a regulation to carry out the plan. It was codified in 2017 by AB 469 with bipartisan support. Essentially, it deems each school to be a “local school precinct” which operates under site-based decision making.
  • This allows for individual schools and principals to have more autonomy on spending decisions. Principals manage their own budget allocations.
  • CCSD is the only district in the state that is under this type of structure.
• Decentralization requires stronger financial oversight and budgetary controls, including policies and guidelines, monitoring and reporting, and training and support.
• A discussion of ways to improve oversight included the use of AI technology, offering training, and incorporating finance department representatives in pre-scheduled quarterly meetings with principals.

Explore the presentation.

Trustees Received a Legislative Update

Trustees received an update from staff on the 2025 Legislative Session. Highlights include:

• The legislative session is nearly halfway through. 1,075 bills have been introduced. Last session, there were 1,096.
• Bills that CCSD is tracking are included in the reference materials.
• The Governor’s education bill and the Senate Majority Leader’s education omnibus bill have yet to be introduced.
• A sampling of bills being followed include:
  • AB48 (CCSD’s bill re: bullying law) passed through Assembly Education Committee and is moving to Assembly floor.
  • AB316 (re: student trustees) is being revised.
  • SB278 (re: leadership training academy for assistant principals) is being discussed.
  • SB174 (re: medically-necessary treatment by outside provider) is being opposed by the District and working on other solutions.
  • SB305 (re: interscholastic sports) is being amended to require regulations by NIAA on how to sanction official sports.
  • AB398 will be heard this week (re: incentives for educators).
  • SB400 will be heard next week (re: out of state student evaluations).

View the reference material.

Public Comment

Members of the public shared comments regarding:

• Cost of construction
• Central kitchen operations and school lunches
• CCSD consultant recommendations
• Learning objectives vs. operational challenges
• Reading materials
• Meeting decorum

The next Meeting of the Board of Trustees is scheduled for April 10, at 5:00 p.m.