CARSON CITY, Nev. - The state Board of Education voted unanimously Saturday to give a second three-year term to Nevada public schools chief Keith Rheault.
Rheault has been with the state Department of Education since 1986 and was deputy superintentent under former schools chief Jack McLaughlin. McLaughlin retired and Rheault got his first three-year term as superintendent on a 6-4 Board of Education vote in 2004.
Rheault says expanding full-day kindergarten from at-risk elementary schools to all schools will be a top priority - although governor-elect Jim Gibbons has said the issue needs more study.
Full-day kindergarten is one of the most costly items on a list of proposals from the state's public school superintendents, who want a 50 percent increase in state funding for public education for the next two years.
Superintendents said they don't expect to get all of the money, even though the increase is needed to meet stringent guidelines of the federal No Child Left Behind law by the 2013-14 school year.
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