In less than two weeks, the legislative session begins up in Carson City where the state's top lawmakers will decide where your money will be spent.
One area the governor wants to give extra dollars to is education.
One local teacher turned legislator; says he wants to make sure your students will benefit.
That teacher is Reuben D'Silva.
"One of the great honors of my life," said the Assembly District 28 lawmaker.
News 3 sat with D'Silva at his mother's home where she proudly hangs his pictures as a marine with multiple college degrees.
D'Silva was born in Mumbai, India, and spent most of his life growing up in the Vegas Valley.
Just a few blocks away from his mother's home is Rancho High School where he walked the halls as a student and now serves as a history teacher.
"I've been at Rancho now - this will be in August of 2023, it'll be 10 years," he said.
While he celebrates that anniversary, he is breaking barriers in his new role as a lawmaker.
"I am the first ever a South Asian American to actually hold office in the state of Nevada to serve in the legislature," said D'Silva. "And the first Indian American person to actually serve in the legislature."
D'Silva will be serving as a member in the Assembly Education Committee, where he will be using personal experiences to make change.
He is cautiously optimistic ahead of the legislative session, with new Governor Joe Lombardo making big promises towards education.
"The governor did say that he was going to, you know, to allocate $2 billion towards this at this endeavor," he said. "And I'm actually very much encouraged by that."
In his time in the classroom, he has seen a lot, including the need for more money.
"The computers are going are slow, the textbooks are old, the desks are falling apart," he said. "There's issues with the sort of resources we have available for something like a class trip."
D'Silva says he will also be pushing for higher wages.
"Everybody in the education realm needs - they need a raise from teachers to hall monitors to support staff or custodians to our school nurses," he said.
To keep and get more teachers in the classroom including locals, he is in favor of a bill being put together by one of his colleagues in the assembly.
"It's going to look at creating a pipeline now from our schools or high schools directly to our universities and colleges and then into the classrooms," said D'Silva.
He says staffing also plays into school safety since he's seen more behavior changes in students since the pandemic.
"I remember one instance where a kid ended up getting up grabbing a kid throwing them on the ground and throwing a desk on top of them," said D'Silva. "And because the other student told them to get out of their seat, it was their seat. something that minimal, and from a kid who I knew was a was a good kid."
He says some restorative justice laws need to be looked at again.
"I think that should be reevaluated, keep what's working and reform the problematic portions," he said. "We need to look at bolstering mental health."
As he prepares for his new role, D'Silva is also preparing to put together his own bill to address student achievement.
"Looking at how do we maximize instruction time in the classroom whether this is by removing extra duties that are placed on teachers," he said. "Or adding minutes to the to the school day itself."
While he's gone for 120 days for the legislative session, D'Silva says he will miss his students.
"When I go to that capital building is the betterment and the future of my students and their families," said D'Silva.
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