Nevada Legislature: K-12 needs $200 million more needed just to keep up

Rising enrollments and teacher step increases will require the state to pump more than $200 million more into the K-12 education budget just to maintain current levels of service.Superintendent of Education Dale Erquiaga told a joint session of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees Thursday rising enrollments will cost $36.3 million in 2016, $69.7 million in 2017 for a total of $106 million.He