Another Reason To Break Up CCSD

Size wise, the Clark County School district is about the larges in the Country, with almost 8000 square miles in the County.
In the County, we have 1 school district, CCSD and the entire county is in CCSD.  Besides the Las Vegas Valley, the next biggest populated areas are Henderson (mostly in the Valley) Boulder City, Laughlin and Mesquite.  Smaller communities include Moapa, Overton, Indian Springs, Cold Creek, Goodsprings, Sandy Valley, Mount Charleston, Cal-Nv-Ari, Searchlight, Blue Diamond, Bunkerville, Mountain Springs and Logandale- all of which has fewer than 1000 people residing in them.
CCSD has schools that range from 1 or 2 room schools with maybe 10-20 kids in them in some rural areas to schools with 3000+ kids in the school.
Because of this, there is no way to compare the needs of kids in the rural area to the kids in the urban areas.  This story illustrates the problem CCSD has: The squeaky wheel gets a $6.6 million gym.
Moapa Valley residents learned that lesson Wednesday after a heated Clark County School Board meeting, when a member up for re-election initiated a vote on the issue while facing 100 of her frustrated constituents.
"Let's calm it down," Board President Linda Young told her colleagues at one point in the deliberation.
The Clark County School District has a long list of $1.8 billion in needed capital projects -- replacing failing air-conditioning systems, fire alarms, leaky roofs and dilapidated schools. But board members just recently learned they had funding for some of the projects. More than $44.6 million became available because of unexpected savings from other capital projects and idle money that had been set aside to buy land for new schools.
Not all projects can be undertaken, so district staff and a committee recommended the highest needs be fulfilled to keep schools running, such as new air-conditioning systems and roofs and other things at 22 schools. The aging air-conditioners at more than a dozen schools had outages in May.
A new, full-sized gym for Moapa Valley High School wasn't on that short list.
However, School Board members ultimately added the project to the list in a 4-3 vote and made it a priority, which means other projects will have to be bumped. A local architect had already mocked up a design and estimated a $6.6 million construction cost for the gym, but the actual design and cost haven't been finalized.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/board-members-split-on-decision-to-build-moapa-gym-164677696.html
If CCSD had been broken up, this would not be an issue except in Moapa.  It's really not fair for Moapa to be ruled by Trustees and administration who live 75 or more miles away.  And it's really not fair for CCSD to have send supplies, teachers, food, repair technicians and supplies and other things to Moapa from Las Vegas.
CCSD needs to be broken up into at least 4 different districts. Henderson, Boulder City and the smaller areas to the southeast would be 1.  Unincorporated Clark County and Goodsprings, Sandy Valley and Primm area would be the second area.  City of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas and unincorporated Clark County to the Hwy 93 turnoff would be in the 3rd district and Mesquite, Moapa, Logandale and the other small areas down to the Hwy 93 turnoff would be the 4th district.
But the urban areas don't want to split up the district because the outlying rural areas bring up the test scores and graduation rates of the district up and they like that the rural areas bring in more than their fair share tax money.
The rural districts don't want the responsibilities of running a school district and they would save on the administrative costs.
But CCSD has gotten too big both student wise and area wise and it needs to be broken up and this story above illustrates why it should happen.