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In a place where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Clark County, Nevada, schools keep students on the diploma track.
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Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Associate Producers:
- Roberta Furger
- Miwa Yokoyama
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Rob Weller
- Jeremy Settles
Narrator:
- Kris Welch
Original Music:
- Ed Bogas
Additional Footage Courtesy of
- The KLVX Communications Group
- Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority
- © 2004
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
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Carlos Garcia moved on from the Clark County School District in 2005. He now serves as superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District.
View all our videos about Las Vegas: Las Vegas's booming economy challenges the area's schools.  In a place where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Clark County, Nevada, schools keep students on the diploma track.  Faced with the fastest-growing student body in the country, Nevada's Clark County addresses its growing pains virtually.  This unique school caters to students with full-time day jobs.  C.P. Squires Elementary School harnesses parents, businesspeople, and retirees for academic and financial support and staff after-school programs.  A rain forest dome and a mock-up of a silver mine enhance science learning in Clark County, Nevada. |
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Its astonishing to learn of this fact, that in Las Vegas, without an education you can very quickly get a job that earns vast amounts of money which requires no higher thinking or understanding and no real vocational value.
I commend what this school and district are doing to combat this phenomenon and hope that politicians and other educators look up and take note that schools/education are not simply designed to create workers for the job market. It would appear that, especially in Las Vegas, they do not require an education to get a high paying, but low status job. If this continues and the concept that education is purely for jobs remains unchallenged, what would be the use of education at all?