LAS VEGAS—The new Las Vegas-area schools chief wants to use donated funds to hire former associates from Colorado and Kansas to propose reforms for the nation’s fifth-largest school district.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Thursday that Clark County School Superintendent Dwight Jones is asking trustees of the cash-strapped district to let him pay $250,000 to Ken Turner as adviser for a year. Turner was Jones’ deputy in Colorado.
Jones would hire Larry Vaughn and Doris Fassino of Quality Leadership Resources in Wichita, Kan., for $80,000, and “Tough Love for Schools,” author Frederick M. Hess, for $25,000.
Jones is former Colorado state education commissioner. He says the Lincy Foundation is letting him hire consultants with $400,000 of a $13.5 million gift it gave for Las Vegas-area empowerment schools.
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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal,
