Sandoval names LV executive to State Board of Education
Victor Wakefield, executive director of Teach for America in Las Vegas, was appointed Friday to the State Board of Education by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
“The State Board of Education will play a critical role in implementing many of the newly established categorical programs aimed at student achievement and their respective accountability measures,” Sandoval said in a statement announcing the appointment.
“Victor has extensive experience recruiting high-quality teachers and placing them in Nevada’s public schools to the benefit of our students. I am pleased he has agreed to serve in this manner and believe he will bring an educator’s perspective to this important body.”
Teach for America is a nonprofit organization that trains recent college graduates who commit to teach in lowerincome urban and rural public schools for two years.
As executive director in Las Vegas, Wakefield was in charge of the organization’s recruitment, selection and training programs.
Wakefield’s appointment to the state board is effective immediately and comes after the 2015 Legislature approved Sandoval’s sweeping education reforms to improve Nevada’s struggling education system. three days before taking action.
The EMRB’s posting of the contracts, which isn’t required by the new law, adds another level of transparency. In the past, the EMRB kept the copies of contract agreements between unions and local governments filed in a cabinet. By law, each union representing government employees must file a copy of the collective bargaining agreement each year with the EMRB.
“Now, however, they are available to anyone at any time, thus allowing the public and anyone wishing to conduct research full access to every provision of every contract,” said EMRB Commissioner Bruce Snyder. “Placing the existing agreements on our website supplements this goal of making collective bargaining more transparent to the public year round.”
Board Secretary Marisu Romualdez Abellar, who uploaded the documents, said they are categorized by the agency type, such as cities, counties, school districts and special districts, allowing the public to easily find similar types of agreements.
In August 2010, Musso fraudulently obtained $1,350,000 in loans using high-end condominiums owned by a Las Vegas businesswoman as collateral without her knowledge, according to federal prosecutors.
Musso fabricated email and forged deeds of trust and promissory notes in the scam, prosecutors alleged.
She had a title company wire roughly $875,000 to Yampolsky’s trust account, then used $232,000 from the account to pay off the rest of $450,000 in restitution in the District Court criminal case, prosecutors alleged.
A county grand jury indicted Musso in January 2005 on felony charges of forging documents and stealing more than $700,000 from a local clinic. She ended up pleading guilty in that case but did not serve any prison time. first two Harley-Davidsons in the group failed to negotiate a curve and crashed after leaving the roadway.
Carter said Ichiroh Kobayashi, 68, was dead at the scene of the wreck.
The other driver, Yoshizuka Toshimitsu, 63, was flown to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas for treatment of his injuries. Carter said an accident investigation is ongoing.