Nevada Journal
Part 7: Oliver’s alternate route to licensure
After working intermittently as a substitute teacher from 2014 onward, James Oliver achieved his state teaching license early in 2018 through Nevada’s Alternative Route to Licensure process. The ARL program...
Part 8: Test pages, real and bogus
IMG 3184: A blank test page (Note: Kids’ names are coded, in this public version. Law enforcement, et al, receive full identifiers.)This is a test page for a classroom in...
Part 6: Evidence in plain sight
On several occasions during the years he’d worked as a day-to-day substitute teacher at CCSD, James Oliver had seen evidence of the sort of cheating this report details. Until it...
Part 10: The learning failures went beyond math, into reading and writing
o, second-grade students in the fall of 2018 at Treem Elementary were not learning math. However, their learning difficulties were not limited to that basic subject: Common Core reading instruction...
Part 5: Who IS this whistleblower?
ames Preston Oliver, the teacher who provided Nevada Journal with the forensic evidence this report presents, did not come to public education at the usual age or by the usual...
Part 1: Foreword
In the 20-plus years since Nevada Journal first began reporting on the Clark County School District, teachers and other employees have regularly contacted NJ regarding various forms of corruption in...
Part 2: Hidden realities of CCSD
In mid-October 2018, the newly licensed elementary teacher James Oliver reported for duty at Harriett Treem Elementary School. Two months earlier, the principal of a different elementary school, Eva G....
Index: CCSD’s systemic problem & its consequences
CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 1The larger the district, the more waste and corruption. CCSD’s systemic problem and its expensive consequences, Part 2Why should it turn out...
Why public-school structure fosters fear and failure for administrators, teachers and students
“We’ve called for your observation,” Principal Brown said to Oliver, “and for some reason they won’t give it to us. And our admin is very upset because we need that...