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3.1

34% would recommend to a friend

(1,403 total reviews)
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Clark County School District has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,403 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clark County School District employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
May 21, 2017
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Pros

Committed teachers, strong community support. Currently undergoing massive shift from central admin to site based decision teams. Low starting pay but bonuses in place for very tough schools of which is basically all of them. No income tax in Nevada means you keep more of your paycheck.

Cons

Health insurance is terrible and on the verge of collapse (again). Only school district in city, so no competition for talent means you take what they offer you. Good news: they are desperate for bodies to fill positions. Bad news: classroom management will be your main focus instead of teaching content. Many schools are just completely out of control. Most of the neighborhoods you will be able to afford to live in are just plain dangerous.

2.0
Aug 2, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Nevada PERS, public employee retirement system; Wonderful students; Living in or near Vegas; Nice peers; Many Title I schools, so loan forgiveness is easy to get; There is no Last Call in Vegas, so you'll have plenty of time to drink away your troubles with administration

Cons

Administrators who perform poorly are shuffled from one school to another; Teachers aren't given information on whom they can contact for help if their administration is unclear or unreasonable about demands; New teacher mentoring is an absolute joke; Administrators will set a teacher up to fail; Administrators don't blink or even show compassion when a new teacher asks for help writing and teaching 70 lessons a week while still keeping up on progress monitoring; The unions for support staff, teachers, and administrators are all spineless; Support staff has had frozen pay or pay cuts for the last eight years; There is no consistency within a performance zone, let alone across the district; The teachers health trust is horribly mismanaged and has had some of the most ridiculous copay structures imaginable

3.0
Jul 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you teach in a high needs area (Special Ed, Math, Science), you WILL be hired. I had taught and trained all over the district; some areas/schools are better then others. I personally prefer teaching and working at the "tougher," more at-risk schools. I find the admins more supportive, the parents more appreciative, and the students more willing to learn. Our wonderful CCEA Healthtrust will most likely be bankrupt by November and it's a crapshoot what Insurance will replace it.

Cons

Our state does not support public education and our governor just passed an unfunded mandate allowing parents to request $5,000 for private school voucher, if they want. How our already, poorly funded, huge, school district is going to afford to do this AND service well over 300,000 students is a mystery to me.

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