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Back to School Kickoff Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis

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    bring your hands together principle of
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    applied analysis good morning and thank
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    you for the opportunity to be here today
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    I'm very honored to be asked to come and
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    be able to address you respecting the
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    fact that I'm doing a little bit of
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    pinch-hitting as I was
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    Nicole was nice enough to send me over
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    some talking points and things that she
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    thought may be of interest and as I
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    started to prepare it seemed to me that
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    the right place to begin was with thank
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    you it occurs to me that I as much as
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    probably anyone in this community I'm a
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    product of this group of people and the
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    balance of the teachers and
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    administrators at the Clark County
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    School District fourth-generation
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    Nevadan that means that my father and my
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    mother both graduated from high school
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    here my mother went all the way through
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    school here my grandmother graduated
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    from Las Vegas High School in 1939 and
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    her mother graduated yep and her mother
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    graduated from was then called the
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    Nevada Normal School in 1912 yeah
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    I take a great deal of pride in this
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    community and I take a great deal of
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    pride in the education that I have and
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    as I was preparing my comments for today
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    it occurred to me that so much of the
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    opportunities that I've been given a
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    result of the educational experience
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    that I had my stepmother who most of you
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    probably knew her name was Emily agüero
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    so with the school district for a very
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    very long time
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    she used to take me to school with her
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    ajahn seabass and I was about 4 or 5
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    years old and was one of the earliest
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    memories that I had pretty remarkable I
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    remember thinking to myself man this is
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    pretty cool this is a place that I want
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    to be miss crying in kindergarten she
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    was very sweet to me and taught me that
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    education could be fun we had those
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    little centers we would go from place to
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    place she taught me the bullying wasn't
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    okay I wasn't the bully I was the guy
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    that was getting bullied but we got it
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    all figured out by the time we got out
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    of kindergarten right in first grade you
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    know I sort of we started doing reading
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    in mathematics I thought okay this is
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    stuff I think I can figure out how to do
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    I learned that I was never going to go
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    professional as a tetherball player
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    although my aspirations were definitely
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    there its Jud I had in second grade she
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    started to teach me more about
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    mathematics and really gave me a real
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    joy of math which turned out to be
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    something that was helpful for me she
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    also taught me that keeping ants as a
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    pet and bringing them to school is
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    something that's frowned upon at the
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    Clark County School District in the
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    third grade I had miss Schneider
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    absolutely remarkable teacher she taught
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    me to write in cursive something that I
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    think students is a bit of a lost art
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    today but nonetheless she also told me
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    that what makes us different makes us
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    special and makes us good she found
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    something incredible about every student
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    in our class and make sure that they had
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    enough confidence to stand up and talk
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    about what made them special in fourth
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    grade I had miss Carter
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    she let me be myself I went through
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    something of a Michael J Fox family tie
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    phase I decided I would bring a
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    briefcase and a wear little tie when I
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    came to school yes that was a little bit
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    ridiculous but nonetheless
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    she was a remarkable teacher and one
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    that I have affinity and still talk
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    about still today fifth grade mr. gray
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    and Miss Geno taught me to embrace
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    school taught me that working hard was
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    what was necessary in the third grade I
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    was what was then referred to as the
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    reading Improvement Program I was not a
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    good reader I've always struggled with
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    that although I've gotten better at it
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    over time by the time I was in fifth
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    grade I was tested for the academically
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    talented program because Miss Snyder
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    recognized I had a problem because miss
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    Carter worked with me on it and because
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    Miss Gugino and mr. gray believed that I
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    could do better than I was doing then
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    for that I am eternally grateful I am
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    also turn League rate 'fl for family
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    when I took the academically talented
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    test they went through a bunch of things
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    I was at the very last point of the test
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    I was one question away from either
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    getting into the program or not getting
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    into the program and the last word that
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    I had to be able to recognize was a word
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    called pseudonym there's a woman here on
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    Las Vegas many of you may have known
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    just like an Anthony her name is Pat
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    Mulroy she was hanging out at our pool
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    one time in quizzing me relative to all
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    of these words and she taught me the
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    word pseudonym just the summer before I
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    had taken that exam if it wasn't for
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    family and friends caring and educators
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    extending that I never would be where I
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    am today
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    I was bussed 45 minutes across the
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    community to Joe Mackay where for sixth
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    grade it was a positive experience
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    however it all is always stuck with me
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    that education is not always equal and
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    that is something that I think is
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    something that we have to consider and
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    always move forward I think we've made
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    great strides in the last 30 years
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    relative to that but it has always stuck
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    with me as I've been invited to go to
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    different schools by trustees those
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    things have been remarkable in junior
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    high school I found out that I really
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    wanted to hang out with the kids that
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    were in the accelerated classes
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    those were the where the middle was
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    moving up I didn't want to be somewhere
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    else it provided me that opportunity in
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    high school Barbara Crawford my English
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    professor who I will never forget god
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    rest her soul she was a wonderful
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    wonderful woman at Valley High School
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    she
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    taught me to find my inner voice right
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    and not be scared of it to write the
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    things that I said and say the things
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    that I fought because that was okay to
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    do it was okay to have my own thought I
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    left Valley High School I went to the
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    University of Nevada Las Vegas for
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    another teacher a gentleman by the name
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    of Shannon baby encouraged me took me
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    under his wing and actually told me to
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    come into his classroom every single day
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    or excuse me every semester to come in
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    because he wanted to know what classes I
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    was choosing and it wouldn't matter what
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    classes I actually put down on that
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    little piece of paper he would scratch
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    them all out and change them to ones
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    that were much harder than the ones that
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    I wanted to add he was a wonderful
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    wonderful human being
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    he cared people had looked out for him
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    and he had done the same
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    Shannon taught me that we all have a
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    responsibility to leave this community
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    better than we found it we have a
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    responsibility to pass it on
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    I left you in L V and I went to law
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    school because Shannon made me promise
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    him that I would I never planned to
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    practice law I've never practiced live
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    never sat for any type of postgraduate
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    exam or anything along those lines
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    but the law has taught me a great many
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    things that Law School is a remarkable
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    feat just like this building that I am
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    so honored to be standing on this stage
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    at taught me a great number of things
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    about how we can work within the system
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    and how we can change it right that is
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    where I feel like we are today we are in
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    a bold effort to try and improve our
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    condition as a community as we fight
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    with growth and we deal with the
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    problems that have been systemic it is
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    unfortunate to note that we have
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    neglected our education system for the
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    better part of a generation and now we
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    are shocked and stunned by
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    underperformance in some areas we cannot
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    have an expectation to under resource
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    and under pay and under dedicate and not
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    pay sufficient attention to our public
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    schools and then expect to superior
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    performance on the back end that said
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    that's it I don't know when it occurred
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    and maybe it just occurred because I
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    opened my eyes or because I was involved
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    in some meeting but I don't know when it
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    occurred that the superintendent or that
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    teachers or that administrators got cast
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    in the role of villain I don't know when
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    it was the legislators decided that they
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    could substitute their judgment for
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    judgment who for the judgment of people
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    who educate people every day and people
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    who are hired to do that who have made
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    it their life's work no better had
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    educate children and the people that are
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    in front of those children every single
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    day I don't know when exactly that
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    happened but what I can tell you is this
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    I can tell you that I do believe that
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    this state and this community are coming
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    together I do believe that the
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    opportunities that are presented by the
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    fact that we are having a more
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    transparent discussion about our
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    problems that we are understanding what
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    the shortcomings are and we are trying
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    to identify solutions we are not there
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    yet and I will talk about some of those
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    today but I don't want to leave you with
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    the impression that I am NOT optimistic
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    about this community that I am NOT
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    optimistic about the Clark County school
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    district that I am NOT excited about the
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    fact that I have three children all of
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    which will be educated or have been
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    educated in this Clark County school
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    district and that I believe that their
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    promise is just as great as anyone any
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    student coming out of any school
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    anywhere in the United States and for
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    that I am infinitely thankful to the
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    people in this way
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    I was asked to come and speak just a
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    little bit about what we're seeing in
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    the economy the fiscal system what you
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    can expect on a go-forward basis I think
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    that is a relatively straightforward
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    conversation to have we have
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    transitioned from a period of decline to
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    a period of expansion there's a lot of
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    uncertainty going on relative to what's
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    happening in Washington DC I continue to
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    believe that the office of the president
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    is more important than the person who
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    holds that office and sometimes that's a
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    bit difficult to see and sometimes we
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    have differences of opinion slowness
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    argument dissent is the way the system
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    is supposed to work the newspapers the
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    media have sensationalized so much of
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    the debate that's going on right the
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    social media that's out there the way in
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    which we communicate the folks has made
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    it faster and shorter and we don't
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    always have a conversation about what is
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    on page two but all of that having been
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    said the structure of the United States
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    economy is clearly stable today there
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    are more people working in the United
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    States of America than at any point in
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    our history today the United States of
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    America is producing more than any point
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    in our history all of the instability
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    that went on during the Great Recession
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    the recession that we now refer to as
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    great and it was difficult and a lot of
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    people lost their jobs and I don't want
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    to minimize any of that all of that
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    strife that occurred all of it where did
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    people from all over the world put their
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    money when they had to go somewhere they
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    put it in the United States where do
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    people that have the option to send
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    their children when they have to go to
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    college where do they send them they
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    send them to the United States now maybe
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    we'll say it differently maybe we can
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    look at what we're doing and we can be
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    our own worst critic but if we're going
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    to think about it in that way maybe
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    we're the best of the bad places to be
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    on planet earth because everybody has
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    problems and we accept that but if we
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    are creating jobs if we are creating
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    economic opportunity if we are expanding
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    and today we are at the full rate of
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    employment which means that everybody
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    who wants to have a job has a job and
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    while some of that continues to be under
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    employment while our skill set continues
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    to be lagging because the economy is
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    innovating faster than we can build the
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    skill sets up we are making strides in
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    that direction everyone from Career and
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    Technical academies to those that are
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    doing internships and apprenticeships to
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    everything that the College of Southern
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    Nevada is doing to train people to be
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    ready to enter that workforce are
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    helping we made some 25 different
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    changes we I don't mean to sound
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    presumptive the state legislature and
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    the state made 25 meaningful changes to
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    education over the past in 2015 and a
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    little bit after that the reality of
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    that is is that is going to take 10 to
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    15 years to actually show its ability to
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    manifest in terms of the students that
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    are ultimately coming out of the Clark
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    County School District or any other
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    school district that has made similar
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    types of changes that is just the
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    reality of it and as much as we like the
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    idea of micromanaging the schools and
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    schools across this country the reality
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    of it is is that there's also the other
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    side of that equation which is
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    essentially reform fatigue we need to
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    give some of these plans the opportunity
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    to work and focus on the things that
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    we're doing right and minimize the
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    things that we're doing wrong that is
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    not a Nevada problem that is not a Clark
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    County school districts problem that is
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    a United States problem the economy is
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    moving quickly it is a rapid evolution
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    in terms of what companies like switch
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    and Tesla and Google and Microsoft what
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    they need and what they require even if
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    we had it perfect today five years from
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    now it would not be perfect anymore but
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    this United these United States the
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    education system that exists is making
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    efforts to move that ball down the field
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    and improve that here at home in the
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    state of
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    things are even better than they are in
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    the United States we tend to think about
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    it in terms of the big three population
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    growth employment growth tax taxable
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    retail sales or consumer spending growth
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    all of those are at or near the highest
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    level they have ever been and what does
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    that mean for the Clark County School
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    District that means that more students
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    are coming that means that classes are
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    going to be increasingly crowded based
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    on the way that we fund our schools that
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    means that we are going to have
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    additional challenges not only from the
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    students like me that went from
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    kindergarten all the way through twelfth
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    grade in the system but the ones that
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    are coming from other areas these are
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    the realities they some of them will
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    come and they won't speak English some
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    of them will come and they will have
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    education from some of them will come
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    and they will be remarkably educated
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    remarkably talented and they will help
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    us continue to grow and develop this
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    community our diversity is an asset the
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    people moving into this community
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    provide a way to leverage that asset and
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    continue to grow it this community is
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    geared for growth we don't have a choice
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    people are coming for two reasons number
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    one they're coming to get a job number
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    two
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    they're coming for retirement those ones
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    that are coming to get a job largely our
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    small starting families those type of
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    things right which is a little bit of a
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    dichotomy because people that are
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    retiring don't always like like kids
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    that it's always a problem
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    no but we'll deal with it right we will
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    deal with it because that's who we are
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    you will remember for those that have
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    been here for a while you'll remember
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    back in 2006 we were talking about not
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    having enough employees we're talking
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    about having enough concrete and glass
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    to build all the casinos and hotels we
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    were talking about building the Ivanpah
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    Airport because we were going to run out
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    of capacity and McCarran International
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    Airport and not in not too far into the
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    future and we couldn't stop that all of
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    those same problems are coming again we
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    have an affordable housing problem which
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    I'm sure is making it remarkably
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    difficult for your teachers and for
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    those you are trying to recruit we have
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    got to solve that
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    we have a capacity problem in terms of
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    having enough employees we are 10,000
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    employees short in our community today
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    in terms of construction related
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    employment but nonetheless population is
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    growing we are adding jobs in almost
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    every sector of the economy which is
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    positive for us and taxable retail
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    spending which suggests that consumers
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    are consumers again is at the highest
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    level we have ever seen in the history
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    of the state of Nevada that is good for
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    us and it is something that we should
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    embrace in terms of our prosperity that
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    having having been said you've read in
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    the newspaper I've read in the newspaper
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    that the Clark County School District
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    and other state and local governments is
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    running has a budget problem has a
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    budget shortfall and as we think about
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    that we think about how in the world can
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    these two things coexist how is it
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    Jeremy that you can stand up here and
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    tell us the economy is doing well
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    consumers are spending money housing
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    prices are going up people are getting
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    jobs wages and salaries are rising and
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    yet you're going to tell me that the
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    revenues that give rise the revenues
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    that support the Clark County school
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    districts budget are underperforming how
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    can these things be possible and the
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    answer is they absolutely can because
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    the way we fund education in the state
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    of Nevada is nothing more than a shell
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    game and I hate to tell you that and
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    it's been that way since I've been doing
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    what I've been doing in 1997 is one of
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    the very first project that I ever
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    worked on was the governor's task force
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    on tax policy we evaluated what is known
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    as the Nevada plan and the distributive
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    school account and I'm not even going to
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    start to go through that because that
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    would be almost as painful for you as it
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    is for me but let me assure you of one
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    thing it is a circular funding formula
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    that is always intended to ensure that
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    there is never a surplus in education
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    and when deficits come in that the state
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    and elected officials that make those
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    type of decisions have the ability to
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    move things around to either create a
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    benefit or not that is the reality of
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    our state's education system is funded
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    through two primary revenue sources one
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    is local support low
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    school support taxes a portion of your
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    sales tax the other one is property tax
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    in 2009 we put on a series of abatement
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    onto property tax for all of us at ona
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    home this has been terrific aliy
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    wonderful right we see that our property
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    taxes don't go up very much but this
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    year the Clark County School District
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    will lose literally hundreds of millions
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    of dollars because all of us are
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    receiving a tax abatement it is not
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    Faraday future it is not Google it is
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    not Tesla that is the reason for those
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    tax abatements it is you and I it is us
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    sitting in this room and do that and I
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    will tell you that this was known there
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    was not a surprise to anyone that this
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    is what was going to happen so ladies
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    and gentlemen what I would like to tell
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    you when we think about the fiscal
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    system is will there be growth will
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    taxable retail sales go up yes they will
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    well property values go up yes
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    they will will this lead to significant
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    increases in the funding for education
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    in the state of Nevada no it will not I
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    would implore you to galvanize to unify
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    around making real and meaningful
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    changes to the way in which we fund
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    schools in the state of Nevada the
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    Nevada plan needs to go the distributive
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    school account
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    the distributive school account needs to
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    be revised and be more reflective of
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    what how schools need to be funded today
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    if I am paying money that is called the
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    local school support tax and that money
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    falls out of the bottom of that budget I
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    would like to know that those one shots
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    that surplus should be available to fund
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    one-time appropriations for schools if I
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    am paying the majority of my property
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    tax and it says school capital and it
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    says school operating I don't want to
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    hear that any of the money that's
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    falling out of the bottom of that is
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    redirected into the state's general fund
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    and used for some other purpose I will
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    tell you that there is thank you I will
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    tell you that there is not only an
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    increasing momentum among the folks in
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    Carson City but also an increasing
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    understanding this was designed to be
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    intentionally opaque it was in design to
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    be difficult it will take time to get
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    people to understand that these changes
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    need to be made now I don't know how
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    hard look I know how hard every one of
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    you worked I guess what I'm trying to
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    say is I don't know if people know how
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    hard that Pat and Nicole work up in
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    Carson City to try and educate people
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    about these changes the only word that I
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    can come up to explain it is tireless a
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    tireless effort to try and get people to
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    understand it but for those who
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    represent you and the folks who work for
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    you every day they have also got to
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    change their focus the reality is if we
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    look at something we say oh look the
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    state legislature gave us raises they
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    put it into the distributive school
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    account without any understanding
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    whatsoever of the totality of that
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    account and how it works and the some
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    light up look over here don't look over
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    there
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    nature of that account while at the same
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    time requiring an ending fund balance
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    that if your household maintained $10 in
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    your bank account or my business
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    maintained a hundred dollars in my bank
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    account given the fact that there
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    is instability in things like property
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    tax and imperfection and things like
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    taxable retail sales who is left holding
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    the bag when property caches come in
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    slightly under expectation who is left
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    holding the bag when sales facts come in
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    slightly under expectation who is left
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    holding the bag
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    the answer is teachers and the students
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    in those classrooms and the reason where
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    we see it manifest is the fact that
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    every year class sizes get larger
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    because that is the only leveraging
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    mechanism that we have to balance the
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    budget is to jam more kids into every
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    classroom ladies and gentlemen that is
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    unacceptable
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    for the state of Nevada we have got to
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    find a way to fix it from an economic
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    standpoint our community is doing well
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    and will continue to do well from a
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    fiscal standpoint we will continue to
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    improve but the prosperity of our
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    economy will not be equal by the
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    prosperity of our fiscal system if we do
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    not fix it it will be a continuing
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    problem the jobs that will continue to
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    be created in this state and I think we
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    owe a debt of gratitude not only to
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    governor Sandoval but also to a
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    gentleman by the name of Steve Hill who
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    has changed the perception of the state
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    of Nevada who has completely changed it
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    from an economic development standpoint
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    we in this state
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    we in this state have created 10,000 new
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    employers since 2011 call governor sand
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    of all good call governor sand of all
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    lucky I don't care he's probably both he
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    is a remarkable governor who cares about
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    the future and has done a great many
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    things for this school district and for
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    this state that will be the driving
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    force that pushes this economy forward
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    during the economic downturn we had an
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    economic problem first we had a fiscal
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    problem second today we have fixed the
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    economic problem let me be clear about
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    this fact we are no longer in recession
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    we are clearly in expansion we have 15
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    billion dollars worth of
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    that are planned proposed and under
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    construction and everybody other than I
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    think my brother-in-law has a job right
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    I didn't say which brother-in-law just
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    to be clear in case anyone knows them
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    this will create opportunity but the
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    continuation of that opportunity
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    absent a legitimate long conversation
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    about how we fund schools so that every
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    two years we're not arguing about two
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    percent we're not arguing about one
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    pupil we're not arguing about one
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    program but we are arguing about how to
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    get this school district and this state
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    from where it is today to a leader in
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    education in this country and I think
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    that is within our grasp and we are at
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    least taking steps in that direction
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    respecting the fact that my time is
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    about coming to an end I do want to do
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    two things number one I want to thank
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    the Clark County School District for
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    everything that they have done and all
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    of you for what you have given me I also
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    do want to extend the thanks to the most
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    important teacher in my life who is my
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    wife she is a first-grade teacher at
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    Wolfe Elementary
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    and she reminds me every single day that
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    being a teacher is not necessarily a job
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    or profession it is a calling and for so
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    many of you people say the children are
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    our future your future
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    I think equal an equal part of that is
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    the folks who have made the decision
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    made the commitment to commit so much of
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    their time energy their love and frankly
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    so much of their money to educating the
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    students in this community including my
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    children with that thank you very very
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    much
Title:
Back to School Kickoff Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis
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