Guinn Center Newsletter April 2025

We’re just shy of 50 days away from the end of the 2025 Nevada Legislative session—47 days, to be exact.

The Guinn Center team has been hard at work, writing briefs on timely topics like federal funding use in Nevada, the proposed split of the Department of Health and Human Services, the state’s persistent health workforce shortages, and AI trends in Higher Education—but it doesn’t stop there.

Our research from the legislative interim has been hard at work, as well. The team distributed the Nevada Briefing Book—our new policy guide with critical data points, key findings, and actionable considerations—to lawmakers and other officials this session, leading to several opportunities to present our work (like this presentation to the Senate Committee on Education last month).

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In response to our Pupil-Centered Funding Plan report, one Democratic senator said, “I live, breathe, and have used so much of your research to guide some of the policy that I've developed.” A Republican senator thanked us for our education rankings research and for “making sure [lawmakers] understand” the benchmarks used to make decisions.

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This is why we do what we do.

We exist to produce nonpartisan, independent policy research that supports evidence-based decision-making in our state—and we are eager to see our work make more of an impact as the legislative session enters its final stretch.

Thank you for supporting this worthy mission.

—The Guinn Center Team

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