Joe Lombardo’s Plan for Nevada
Fixing Our Education System
- Joe will immediately work with the Legislature to get rid of Steve Sisolak's dangerous restorative justice policies, which have mandated that violent students can no longer be suspended or expelled. Under Steve Sisolak, there has been a 46% increase in harassment, threats, and sexual assaults within Clark County School District. That ends on day one under Governor Joe Lombardo.
- Joe will increase school choice options by expanding access to charter schools, opportunity scholarships, and education saving accounts (ESAs).
- Joe believes parents, students, and taxpayers deserve to know that education dollars are spent as effectively and efficiently as possible, and he will demand both financial and educational accountability measures are achieved, so that every student is provided a quality education regardless of the school they attend.
- Joe will bring back successful academic benchmark programs, like Read by Three, and will ensure that students are graded on performance, not attendance.
- Joe will ensure parents and students have a voice in the education decisions of our children and will hold our educators and administrators at all schools accountable in ways that will finally provide our children the education they deserve.
- Joe will bring accountability back to our education system by addressing how Nevada's school boards are constructed to ensure all students are represented, and our school board members uphold their responsibility to Nevada's next generation.
Restoring Law & Order
- Joe will repeal Steve Sisolak’s soft-on-crime policies and replace them with common sense legislation focused on keeping our communities safe and violent criminals off our streets and out of our schools. Joe will get rid of reduced sentences for drug traffickers and burglars, eliminate leniency for career criminals, and end Sisolak’s anti-police practices.
- Joe will prioritize funding Nevada’s Highway Patrol and reinstate leadership in the department to restore a positive culture that enhances the recruitment process and ensures that Nevada’s officers have the resources, tools, and training to keep our communities safe.
Building A Stronger Economy
- Joe will make Nevada one of the best states to do business in so that we can attract new opportunities, businesses, and industries to our state. And he won’t give no-bid contracts to family members like Steve Sisolak.
- Joe will never raise taxes. Joe will get rid of red tape, job-killing regulations, and he will eliminate bureaucratic overreach.
- Joe will establish robust workforce development and career training programs so that our state develops a highly-skilled workforce that can fill the next generation of good-paying jobs in Nevada.
- While Nevadans are back to work, Steve Sisolak has allowed government agencies to work from home. Joe will get the state back to work full-time so the government can serve its taxpayers as it should.
- Joe will demand all state agencies and state employees recommit to customer service, so no Nevadan ever again is faced with deciding whether to pick up children from school or wait on hold, hoping to reach someone to help with unemployment benefits, Medicaid, or an appointment with the DMV.
Expanding Affordable Housing
- To create more affordable housing, Joe will eliminate red tape and cumbersome land restrictions so that developers can fast-track new affordable housing developments. Joe will work with state agencies and developers to eliminate bottlenecks in the licensing and building process and institute free market competition to help curb unnecessary costs and give Nevadans the best product. Joe will also work with our congressional delegation to free up more land from the federal government for smart community development.