Protesters against the state's Common Core K-12 education standards are gathered outside the Nevada Legislature ahead of today's Assembly committee meeting to discuss a possible repeal of those standards. One lawmaker says he is concerned with data mining and certain forms of standardized testing.

Six Nevada Assembly incumbents are out of a job after elections that favored Republicans and allowed the party to capture a wide majority in the heavily Democratic lower house. The losses included veteran Democratic lawmakers Jason Frierson, Richard "Skip" Daly and Paul Aizley, as well as one-term legislators James Healey, Andy Eisen and Lesley Cohen.