Existing law provides that each public school within a school district in this State which has more than 100,000 pupils enrolled in its public schools (currently the Clark County School District) is deemed to be a local school precinct. (NRS 388G.530, 388G.600) Under existing law, a local school precinct is required to operate using site-based decision-making in which certain responsibilities are transferred from the large school district to the local school precinct. (NRS 388G.600) One function that the superintendent of the large school district is required to transfer from the large school district to the local school precinct is the selection for the local school precinct of teachers, administrators other than the principal and other staff who work under the direction of the principal. (NRS 388G.610) Section 1 of this bill clarifies that the principal of the local school district is required to select such staff in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Existing law requires the principal of a local school precinct to establish an organizational team for the local school precinct on or before October 1 of each school year. (NRS 388G.700) Under existing law, the organizational team for a local school precinct is required to consist of the principal as a nonvoting member, teachers or other educational personnel at the local school precinct, persons employed at the local school precinct, other than teachers or other educational personnel, and parents or legal guardians of pupils who are enrolled at the local school precinct. (NRS 388G.720) Section 4 of this bill makes the principal of a local school precinct a voting member, rather than a nonvoting member, of the organizational team of the local school precinct. Existing law requires the principal of a local school precinct to develop a plan of operation for the local school precinct with the assistance and advice of the organizational team. The plan of operation is required to include, without limitation, a plan to improve the achievement of pupils enrolled in the local school precinct and a budget for the use of money allocated to the local school precinct. (NRS 388G.700) Under existing law, the principal is responsible for finalizing the plan of operation and, when the principal finalizes the plan of operation, the principal is required to submit the plan for approval by the school associate superintendent for that local school precinct. (NRS 388G.710) Existing law authorizes the school organizational team to submit to the school associate superintendent objections to any part of the plan of operation and establishes a procedure for the school associate superintendent to consider and respond to those objections. (NRS 388G.750) Section 6 of this bill removes the procedure for the school organizational team to submit to the school associate superintendent objections to the plan of operation and, instead, sections 2, 3 and 6 of this bill establish procedures requiring a plan of operation to be approved by a vote of at least 75 percent of the members of the organizational team who are present at the time of the vote before the plan is submitted to the school associate superintendent for approval. Sections 2 and 3 require the principal of a local school precinct to make every effort to notify the members of an organizational team of the date time and location of a vote on a plan of operation. Under section 6, if a plan of operation is not approved by a vote of at least 75 percent of the members of the organizational team who are present at the time of the vote: (1) the principal of the local school precinct is required to submit a notice to the school associate superintendent that includes a copy of the proposed plan of operation and a statement of the reasons that the plan of operation was not approved by the required vote of the organizational team; and (2) the superintendent is required to develop and approve a plan of operation for the local school precinct based on that information. Existing law provides that when a vacancy occurs in the position of principal for a local school precinct, the organizational team for the local school precinct is required to establish a list of qualifications that the organizational team determines are desirable for the next principal and provide that list to the superintendent. The superintendent is required to interview qualified candidates and establish a list of at least three but not more than five candidates to submit to the organizational team and the organizational team is required to recommend one candidate to the superintendent for the position of principal. (NRS 388G.740) Section 5 of this bill establishes qualifications for the position of principal that the organizational team is required to include in the list of qualifications submitted to the superintendent. Section 5 also revises the procedure for filling a vacancy in the position of principal for the local school precinct by requiring that, rather than recommending one candidate to the superintendent, the organizational team is required to submit to the superintendent a ranking of candidates for the position of principal. Finally, section 5: (1) requires the school associate superintendent responsible for a local school precinct to make every effort to notify the members of an organizational team of the date, time and location of a vote on a selected candidate; (2) authorizes the organizational team to reject the selection by the superintendent of a candidate for the position of principal if at least 75 percent of the members of the organizational team who are present at the time of the vote to reject the selection; and (3) provides that if the organizational team rejects the selection of the superintendent, the superintendent is required to select a candidate for the position of principal from the remaining candidates on the list submitted by the organizational team. Existing law: (1) deems each public school within a large school district (currently Clark County School District) to be a local school precinct which is empowered to carry forward its year-end balance to the next school year for use by the local school precinct; and (2) requires a large school district to account for any amount carried forward by a local school precinct as a restricted fund balance. (NRS 388G.600, 388G.650) Section 1.5 of this bill requires a local school precinct that carries forward a balance of more than 5 percent of its actual expenditures to use the money for certain purposes. If a local school precinct fails to spend the entire amount of money within 24 months after the end of the school year, section 1.5 requires a large school district to transfer the balance in excess of 5 percent of the expenditures of the local school precinct to the Education Stabilization Account.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 388G.610, 388G.700, 388G.710, 388G.720, 388G.740, 388G.750
Reprint 1: 388G.610, 388G.650, 388G.700, 388G.710, 388G.720, 388G.740, 388G.750
Reprint 2: 388G.610, 388G.650, 388G.700, 388G.710, 388G.720, 388G.740, 388G.750
As Enrolled: 388G.610, 388G.650, 388G.700, 388G.710, 388G.720, 388G.740, 388G.750
BDR: 388G.610, 388G.700, 388G.710, 388G.720, 388G.740, 388G.750