John Vellardita says his tax initiatives are going to help fund all issues in the state. Not just education. The head of the Clark County Education Association is running two signature gathering campaigns to raise the state sales tax and the gaming tax. The CCEA is looking to raise in an extra $1.4 billion. Annually. That would be a game changer for Nevada education. But also for all of the services that get underfunded because so much of our state's budget goes to education.

Amilia Pak-Harvey was the education reporter at the Review Journal for three years. She left at the end of the year to cover City Hall for the Indianapolis Star. We did an exit interview.

Carrie Kaufman has a riveting discussion with veteran teachers Alexis Salt and Tonya Scroggin about the secondary trauma they deal with from their students, from broken school systems, and from a societal nihilism. How can you focus on Blooms Taxonomy when your students are at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

Michelle Gillie Amor taught her son how advocating against racist systems - and bad teachers - can pay off.

The Nevada State Education Association is keeping close tabs on the new funding formula. We find out what they want.

Carrie Kaufman talks with Tami Hance-Lehr, executive director of Communities in Schools Nevada, about their work and the needs of K-12 students in the state.

In 2018, after the Supreme Court ruled in Janus vs. AFSCME, common wisdom was that this was a death knell for public unions. Our guest today never believed that. And he thinks teachers unions, in particular, will grow stronger for having the ruling to push against.

The first of regular monthly podcasts with Akiko Cooks, the proprietor of the Facebook group No Racism in Schools 1865. Today we talk to author Pete Simi, and we introduce a new segment: Hidden History of the United States.

Average Teacher Salary gives wealthier schools in Clark County an advantage over schools in the so-called "middle ring." That's set to change with the new funding formula. Maybe.

For the first episode of the Nevada Voice Podcast, I wanted to dig into an issue that seems easy to solve, but is deceptively complicated: absenteeism.