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Fully KeptK-12 education funding

Provide $2 billion in new K-12 education funding in the budget, an increase of more than 22 percent over the prior biennium.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 90%

Promise (2023-01-24 State of the State): provide $2 billion in NEW K-12 funding in the budget, an increase of more than 22% over the prior biennium. Both cited sources were reachable and support the FULL rating. (1) The Nevada Independent promise tracker states the promise status as "Completed" and contains the cited quote VERBATIM: "During the 2023 legislative session, Lombardo and state lawmakers approved a historic $2 billion increase in K-12 spending — an increase of about 26 percent from the previous budget cycle that will raise the base per-pupil funding amount from $7,074 in the fiscal year that ended in June 2023 to $9,414 by the end of the two-year budget period." This documents that the pledged $2B / 22% metric was met and exceeded (~26%). (2) The Nevada Department of Education press release (PRIMARY) corroborates the funding increase with both cited fragments appearing verbatim: "allocates almost $12 billion in education spending, a $2.6 billion dollar increase in education funding over the biennium" and "increases per-pupil funding by more $2,500 in fiscal year 2025, a more than 25% increase," and confirms Lombardo signed the bills into law. The outcome does not overstate the evidence (delivered ~26% exceeds promised 22%). FULL rather than CHAMPIONED is the correct, conservative choice: credit is genuinely shared/contested — the Democratic-controlled Legislature added funding beyond Lombardo's proposal and much of the increase traces to the 2019 pupil-centered funding formula, so clean led/authored leadership evidence is absent. Rating upheld.

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