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NASS presents 'Invest 2027' priorities, urges single count day and funding stability
Summary
The Nevada Association of School Superintendents presented Invest 2027, asking legislators to align funding with student needs, consider a single count day for enrollment, adopt a 2% declining‑enrollment cap and simplify at‑risk calculations; superintendents signaled support for stacking weights if funding targets are met.
AJ Fueling, superintendent of the Carson City School District and president of the Nevada Association of School Superintendents (NASS), presented the association’s Invest 2027 platform that distills superintendents’ legislative priorities into four main items for the upcoming session. The priorities include increasing and aligning education funding to meet student needs, reconsidering the state’s enrollment‑count methodology (NASS favors a single count day to increase predictability), a recommended 2% declining‑enrollment cap to trigger hold‑harmless protections, simplification of at‑risk funding metrics for transparency, and continued interest in stacked weights where appropriate. "It is called Invest 2027," Fueling said as he introduced the document the superintendents developed for legislators.
Fueling said NASS supports removing the quintile language and simplifying the at‑risk calculation for funding purposes, while acknowledging the grad‑score model may be useful for local programming though not ideal for transparent funding formulas. NASS also advocated that funding‑stability measures be considered in light of statewide declining enrollment and the practical realities districts face when finalizing contracts and budgets for the school year.
