Parents get focused on more funds for schools

WHEN I think of next year’s session of the Nevada Legislature, I can’t help but think of Paul Revere. But it’s not the British coming to take Carson City by storm — it’s a caravan of angry moms.

For the first time in a long time, many people in the Clark County School District seem to be on the same page.

Contracts for all the district’s unions are tentatively sealed through at least 2018-19. A new leader is taking note of where the district is, and where it needs to be.

And parents are becoming better informed on school issues by being involved in school organizational teams (SOTS), which coincidentally were formed just before the district faced back-to-back budget deficits.

That has set the stage for a unified push from educators and parents for adequate education funding.

For parent Andrea Cole, the call

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West Lake Mead Boulevard and Simmons Street, on the border between Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. Members of the Nash family confronted Easley following an earlier argument in the parking lot between the suspect and one of the family members. During that confrontation, Easley put a gun to the family member’s head, the report said.

Patty did not specify which family member was involved in the earlier confrontation, but said that it was not one of the three people killed.

The man involved in the argument went home, the report said, but soon returned to the parking lot with his family and the armed family friend.

An argument between the Nash family and Easley escalated, leading to the exchange in gunfire, according to the report. Easley then sped off in a Chevy Tahoe, driving over the bodies of the victims, the report said.

The three died at the scene, and the father of Dejona’e Nash’s child

also was injured in the shooting. He was hospitalized at University Medical Center with survivable injuries.

Susan Nash’s children both died of two gunshot wounds to the head. Their autopsies also revealed internal injuries consistent with being run over by a car, including fractured ribs and a lacerated aorta, the report said.

Their mother’s cause of death was still pending Friday with the Clark County coroner’s office.

Easley was identified as the shooter by several witnesses in the area, his report said.

Court records show that Easley was previously convicted of attempted murder with a deadly weapon for a shooting that occurred north of downtown Las Vegas in 2002.

A Gofundme page has been set up to help cover burial costs for the Nash family.

Review-journal staff writer Kimber Laux contributed to this report.

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