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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: KEITH ROGERS, REVIEW-JOURNAL
The Legislature's standoff on the public schools budget and the tax increases needed to fund it is being closely watched by the valley's future teachers.
More than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in UNLV's College of Education. About 600 receive diplomas each year, with the vast majority of them, 90 percent, staying locally to teach. The remaining 10 percent seek jobs out of state.
The Clark County School District not only furnishes hundreds of job openings each year, but also provides a training ground for UNLV's student teachers and employs much of the college's part-time faculty.
But because of the fiscal uncertainty surrounding the state public...
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