Assemblywoman Gonzalez tweets while her students’ futures go up in flames

By Erica Neely  

Nevada News and Views

Assemblywoman Cecelia Gonzalez also teaches in the Clark County School District (CCSD).

And yesterday, she gleefully took to X to celebrate her return to the classroom after the 2025 legislative session in Carson City.

Nothing unusual there — politicians do it all the time.

But what’s striking is how much time she seems to have for political theater on social media while Nevada kids are stuck in one of the worst school districts in America.

Maybe that’s because her record in Carson City lines up perfectly with her online persona: all politics, no solutions.

The District She Defends

Let’s start with the obvious.

Gonzalez teaches in CCSD — a district so broken that parents, teachers, and taxpayers don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

This is the same district that screams “budget cuts!” while the budget actually increases.

The same district that magically changed its own school ranking system so failing schools wouldn’t lose “gold stars” — even when students kept falling further behind.

If CCSD were a business, it would’ve been shut down years ago. Instead, it just keeps getting bigger, messier, and more bureaucratic.

And Gonzalez? She’s not demanding reform. She’s cheerleading from the inside.

A Lawmaker Who Blocks Real Solutions

Here’s the kicker: Gonzalez isn’t just part of this disaster as a teacher. She’s also a state legislator in charge of writing education laws.

That means she has the power to push for accountability, transparency, and most of all — choice for parents.

But no, that’s not her style.

Gonzalez has spent her time in Carson City opposing Nevada’s Opportunity Scholarship program, which would allow working families to send their kids to private schools instead of trapping them in CCSD’s chaos.

In other words, she’s defending a monopoly that benefits politicians and bureaucrats — and pays her salary — while hurting the very kids she claims to care about.

Parents overwhelmingly want school choice. Poll after poll shows it.

But Gonzalez would rather tell moms and dads to “just trust the system.”

Right — because that’s worked so well for the last few decades.

Sarcasm Meets Reality

So let’s recap. Gonzalez teaches in a district where:

—Teacher shortages are chronic.

—Students are failing to meet basic math and reading benchmarks.

—Budgets are bloated and opaque.

—The public is so fed up, many are calling to break CCSD into smaller districts.

And her big contribution?

Oppose giving parents an escape hatch. Brilliant.

It’s almost like Gonzalez believes kids should serve as guinea pigs for CCSD’s endless experiments in failure.

After all, if families could leave, the system might actually have to change. And we can’t have that, can we?

Who She’s Really Fighting For

Every tweet Gonzalez sends is a reminder of where her priorities are: party politics, the teachers’ unions, protecting a broken system, and blocking parent choice.

What’s missing? Nevada kids whose futures are going up in flames while she “happy” tweets.

If Gonzalez really cared about education, she’d be demanding answers about CCSD’s corruption, waste, and chronic dysfunction.

Instead, she’s part of the problem — defending a failing district while attacking the very programs that give families hope.

Nevada Deserves Better

Nevadans should be asking one question: why are we letting the same self-serving people who broke the system be the ones to “fix” it?

Cecelia Gonzalez may be happy to spend her days teaching in CCSD and her nights tweeting about politics, but parents aren’t laughing anymore.

They’re demanding options.

They want Opportunity Scholarships.

They want real accountability.

And they’re tired of politicians like Gonzalez who tell them “no.”

If she wants to keep defending CCSD, that’s her choice. But Nevada families deserve choices too — choices she’s fighting to block.

She needs to go. “For the children,” of course.

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Erica Neely is a grassroots advocate, small business owner, director, community leader, and founder of the Hispanic Latin Alliance. Deeply rooted in family values, she is passionate about empowering her community and driving meaningful change.