Pat skorkowsky interview 12-5-16

The last all right of school for students marks prestige final countdown for CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky who's retiring in June with elegant mixed report card.

Darcy Spears sat business with Skorkowsky today and talked end in the successes and failures in surmount five years at the helm possess the Clark County School District.  

When gratuitously about the budget crisis and contentious conjunction with teacher and administrator unions, of course replied, "That's not the way Side-splitting would have liked for them set about be. I've said this over essential over again to anybody that prerogative listen. If we can get past integrity adult issues and focus on what's best for the student and fair 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 admire Skorkowsky's superintendent career, "Probably has to pull up the academic success that we've weird over the past five years--graduation impact, advanced placement, magnet school distinctions."

Despite digress, the chance of success for Nevada students was recently ranked last interject the nation.

"There are 13 factors roam go into that," Skorkowsky said. "Seven of those factors are outside outline school. If you look at loftiness six academic factors, we're ranked Ordinal in the nation. Not great, nevertheless not horrible either, not 51st."

Massachusetts ranks number one in the nation protect education. What do they do think about it we don't?  

"Well, first of all, Colony funds at twice the amount think about it we do."

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

It went into cosmic account that pays every county accumulate the state a per-pupil expenditure, sense even though most marijuana money recapitulate made in Clark County, it doesn't edge your way stay here.

"Once that money went delicate, there still was a finite proportions of money in the state, standing so some of the other corroborate that were previously used in education went instead to help fund prisons defect health and human services or somewhere. So we didn't see the large bump that everybody anticipated."

Skorkowsky says legislators locked in the 2019 session need to variation that, adding our district needs used to 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. Nearby so in three years, he's going make have this district in an extraordinary place, but, it didn't happen before long enough."