The History of School Trust Lands in Nevada: The No Child Left
Behind Act of 1864 Christopher J. Walker Ohio State University
(OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law Nevada Law Journal,
Vol. 7, pp. 110-150, 2006 This Article details the history of
the federal school lands grant program in Nevada - the first
federal initiative to support public education in the new state.
After providing a brief overview of federal land management
history in the West, the Article presents the story of school
lands in Nevada - tracing its birth in Congress and at the
Nevada Constitutional Convention in 1864; analyzing the changes
made by state constitutional amendments and court decisions;
exploring Congress's attempts to adapt the program to Nevada's
needs in the form of the two-million-acre grant of 1880 and the
30,000-acre exchange of 1926; and documenting government abuse
and misuse of the Nevada school lands program in the twentieth
century. Tracing the history of the school lands grants in
Nevada reveals several recurren