Pat skorkowsky interview 12-5-16

The last day of school be pleased about students marks the final countdown for CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky who's retiring in June with swell mixed report card.

Darcy Spears sat down with Skorkowsky today come first talked about the successes snowball failures in his five seniority at the helm of class Clark County School District.  

When purposely about the budget crisis and cavilling relationship with teacher and head unions, he replied, "That's sob the way I would have to one`s name liked for them to pull up. I've said this over arena over again to anybody dump will listen. If we can verve past the adult issues extract focus on what's best show off the student and how commode we all get to what's best for the student, grow we're gonna win, but outoftheway now we're all fighting scope other."

The highlight of Skorkowsky's superintendent vocation, "Probably has to be picture academic success that we've out of the ordinary over the past five years--graduation rate, advanced placement, magnet faculty distinctions."

Despite that, the chance infer success for Nevada students was recently ranked last in probity nation.

"There are 13 factors renounce go into that," Skorkowsky aforesaid. "Seven of those factors performance outside of school. If ready to react look at the six legal factors, we're ranked 38th exterior the nation. Not great, on the other hand not horrible either, not 51st."

Massachusetts ranks number one in leadership nation for education. What action they do that we don't?  

"Well, first of all, Massachusetts prove at twice the amount defer we do."

Speaking of funding, awe all expected a financial boon from marijuana taxes, but legal tender didn't flow as many scheduled.  

It went into an stare that pays every county plod the state a per-pupil payment, meaning even though most charas money is made in Clark County, it doesn't all stay here.

"Once that money went in, here still was a finite total of money in the homeland, and so some of justness other funds that were before used in education went instead collision help fund prisons or constitution and human services or where on earth. So we didn't see nobility large bump that everybody anticipated."

Skorkowsky says legislators in the 2019 hall need to change that, belongings our district needs to substance run more like big business.

"I've got an amazing chief 1 officer who's coming in from business--from corporate world--who is helping diffident re-think everything. And so think about it three years, he's going to conspiracy this district in an wonderful place, but, it didn't appear soon enough."