A plan to reorganize the nation's fifth largest school district has moved forward.
Lawmakers tasked with decentralizing power in the Clark County School District approved a plan Tuesday to do just that, according to the Las Vegas Sun.
The plan, which has been in the works since AB394 passed last legislative session, would move CCSD to what's known as an empowerment model.
That would give individual schools more autonomy in the way they handle decision-making processes with personnel and budgets.
Under the proposal, the school district Board of Trustees would oversee operations across the district and would still appoint a superintendent, but otherwise many decisions would be made at the school level.
The plan has its skeptics, though, among them the Board of Trustees itself, which has not embraced the proposals put forth.
The next step for the proposal is for the state Department of Education to sign off on it and make any adjustments before the Legislative Commission votes on the plans this year.
