Existing law authorizes the Department of Education, to the extent money is available, to award grants to certain entities to support prekindergarten programs. (NRS 387.652-387.658) Sections 11-14 of this bill create the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account and authorize the Department to award grants to certain entities to support early childhood literacy and readiness programs. Section 93.5 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Account.
Existing law creates the Commission on School Funding and establishes the duties of the Commission. (NRS 387.1246, 387.12463) Section 22 of this bill: (1) requires the Department to engage in certain activities to support the Commission; and (2) authorizes the Commission to meet at any time. Section 23 of this bill expands the duties of the Commission by requiring the Commission to: (1) review the academic progress made by pupils in each public school in this State; and (2) review and consider strategies to improve the accessibility of existing and new programs within and between public schools. Section 23 also eliminates the power of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education to review the recommendations of the Commission and determine whether to transmit the recommendations to the Governor or the Legislature and instead requires the Commission to transmit its recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature after considering the recommendations of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education. Section 93 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Department to support the operations of the Commission.
Existing law requires each school district and each public school to create a report on or before October 1 of each year that includes certain information about the number and kinds of personnel and services provided by the school district or public school, respectively, during the immediately preceding school year and any changes anticipated by the school district or public school. (NRS 387.12468) Section 24 of this bill requires the Department to prepare any reports or provide any data necessary for a school district or public school to produce such reports. Section 93 makes an appropriation to the Department to support the completion of such reports.
Existing law: (1) requires the State Public Charter School Authority to sponsor charter schools; and (2) authorizes the board of trustees of a school district or a college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education to apply to the Department for authorization to sponsor charter schools. (NRS 388A.220) Section 32 of this bill: (1) authorizes a city or county to apply to the Department for authorization to sponsor charter schools; (2) prohibits a city or county from sponsoring a new charter school or expanding the enrollment or authorizing an additional campus of an existing charter school sponsored by the city or county if the total number of pupils enrolled in charter schools sponsored by the city or county exceeds a certain percentage of pupils in public schools in the city or county other than charter schools that are not sponsored by the city or county; and (3) limits a city or county to sponsoring a charter school within the territory of the city or county. Section 34 of this bill makes conforming changes to refer to provisions that have been renumbered by section 32. Sections 1-5, 7, 8, 28, 29-31, 33-39, 50-52 and 75 of this bill authorize a city or county approved by the Department to, in general, sponsor charter schools in the same manner as the board of trustees of a school district or a college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Existing law imposes certain reporting requirements on the governing body of each charter school or the sponsor of a charter school. (NRS 388A.345-388A.355) Section 28.7 of this bill requires a city or county that sponsors a charter school to report annually to the Department, the State Public Charter School Authority and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau certain information relating to the charter school and pupils enrolled in the charter school.
Section 28.5 of this bill: (1) authorizes, under certain circumstances, the State Public Charter School Authority to award money to a charter school for the transportation of pupils to the extent money has been appropriated for that purpose; and (2) requires a charter school that wishes to receive such money to submit a transportation plan to the State Public Charter School Authority. Section 28.5 authorizes the State Public Charter School Authority to approve the transportation plan of a charter school if it makes certain determinations. Section 93.3 of this bill makes an appropriation to the State Public Charter School Authority to award money to charter schools for the transportation of pupils.
Existing law establishes the Teach Nevada Scholarship Program, which awards grants to public or private universities, colleges or other providers of an alternative licensure program in this State to award scholarships to students who attend the university, college or provider to complete a program which is approved by the State Board of Education and upon completion: (1) makes a student eligible to obtain a license to teach kindergarten, any grade from grades 1 through 12 or in the subject of special education; or (2) allows a student to specialize in early childhood education. (NRS 391A.580) Section 56 of this bill requires the State Board to annually review and report on the Teach Nevada Scholarship Program. Section 67 of this bill makes a conforming change to indicate the proper placement of section 56 in the Nevada Revised Statutes. Section 68 of this bill: (1) revises provisions relating to the priority of grant awards for the Teach Nevada Scholarship Program; and (2) requires a student to have graduated from a high school in this State or a county that borders this State and accepts pupils from this State or who have successfully completed the high school equivalency assessment selected by the State Board before 20 years of age to be eligible for a Teach Nevada Scholarship. Section 69 of this bill increases the maximum amount of a Teach Nevada Scholarship to match the cost of receiving a bachelor's degree at a public university in this State.
Sections 57-66 of this bill create the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program, which, in general, is structured similarly to the Teach Nevada Scholarship Program. Section 63 of this bill allows a Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship to be used to obtain a master's degree in education or a related field of study. Section 63 similarly requires 25 percent of an award of a Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship to be retained by the State Board, and section 64 allows this amount to be released to a scholarship recipient if he or she maintains employment as a teacher at a public school in this State for 3 consecutive school years immediately following completion of the program for which the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship was awarded. Section 93.7 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program Account.
Existing law requires an elementary school to provide intervention services and intensive instruction to a pupil during the time the pupil attends the school if the pupil does not obtain a score in the subject area of reading on the criterion-referenced examination in reading that meets the score prescribed by the State Board. Existing law also authorizes the principal of such a school to retain the pupil, rather than promote the pupil to the next grade, in certain circumstances, in consultation with a literacy specialist and certain other persons. (NRS 388A.487, 392.760) Sections 71 and 72 of this bill require a pupil enrolled in grade 3 to be retained in grade 3, rather than promoted to grade 4, if the pupil does not obtain the score in the subject area of reading on a uniform examination in reading that meets the score prescribed by the State Board or receive an exemption by the superintendent of schools of the school district or governing body of the charter school. Sections 71 and 72 also authorize a pupil to receive a good-cause exemption to allow the pupil to be promoted to grade 4 without obtaining such a score and require the State Board to prescribe an alternative examination for pupils who do not obtain such a score. Section 40 of this bill requires a pupil enrolled in a charter school to be retained in grade 3 under similar circumstances. Section 76 of this bill revises the information that must be included in a written notice provided to the parent or legal guardian of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or grade 1, 2 or 3 who exhibits a deficiency in the subject area of reading. Section 77 of this bill requires a school to provide certain intervention services and intensive instruction to a pupil who does not obtain a passing score in the subject area of reading regardless of whether the pupil is retained in grade 3. Section 77 additionally: (1) requires literacy specialists and personnel with knowledge and expertise relating to providing intervention services and intensive instruction to pupils who are deficient in the subject area of reading to, in addition to any other duties, provide such services and instruction to such pupils; and (2) requires each public school to offer summer school to a pupil in second or third grade who is deficient in the subject area of reading. Sections 40 and 78 of this bill require certain information relating to pupils with a deficiency in reading who were retained in grade 3 or not retained due to a good-cause exemption to be included in the annual report of pupils receiving intervention services and intensive instruction to address a deficiency in reading. Sections 6 and 74 of this bill make conforming changes to refer to provisions that have been renumbered by this bill.
Statutes affected: As Introduced: 385.620, 385A.070, 385A.080, 385A.090, 385A.240, 385A.450, 385A.670, 385A.720, 386.790, 387.1213, 387.1214, 387.1223, 387.124, 387.1241, 387.1242, 387.12445, 387.1246, 387.12463, 387.12468, 388.040, 388.380, 388.429, 388.795, 388A.105, 388A.159, 388A.171, 388A.220, 388A.229, 388A.249, 388A.252, 388A.258, 388A.270, 388A.279, 388A.378, 388A.487, 388D.250, 388D.260, 388D.270, 388D.280, 388G.130, 388G.140, 388G.200, 388G.650, 391A.550, 391A.580, 391A.585, 392.015, 392.125, 392.128, 392.750, 392.760, 392.775, 286.523, 363A.130, 363A.139, 363B.110, 363B.119, 679A.160, 680B.025, 680B.0395, 695B.320, 695F.090
Reprint 1: 385.620, 385A.070, 385A.080, 385A.090, 385A.240, 385A.450, 385A.670, 385A.720, 387.1246, 387.12463, 387.12468, 388.795, 388A.105, 388A.159, 388A.171, 388A.220, 388A.229, 388A.249, 388A.252, 388A.258, 388A.270, 388A.279, 388A.378, 388A.487, 388G.130, 388G.140, 388G.200, 391A.550, 391A.580, 391A.585, 392.125, 392.128, 392.750, 392.760, 392.775
Reprint 2: 385.620, 385A.070, 385A.080, 385A.090, 385A.240, 385A.450, 385A.670, 385A.720, 387.1246, 387.12463, 387.12468, 388.795, 388A.105, 388A.159, 388A.171, 388A.220, 388A.229, 388A.249, 388A.252, 388A.258, 388A.270, 388A.279, 388A.378, 388A.487, 388G.130, 388G.140, 388G.200, 391A.550, 391A.580, 391A.585, 392.125, 392.128, 392.750, 392.760, 392.775
As Enrolled: 385.620, 385A.070, 385A.080, 385A.090, 385A.240, 385A.450, 385A.670, 385A.720, 387.1246, 387.12463, 387.12468, 388.795, 388A.105, 388A.159, 388A.171, 388A.220, 388A.229, 388A.249, 388A.252, 388A.258, 388A.270, 388A.279, 388A.378, 388A.487, 388G.130, 388G.140, 388G.200, 391A.550, 391A.580, 391A.585, 392.125, 392.128, 392.750, 392.760, 392.775
BDR: 385.620, 385A.070, 385A.080, 385A.090, 385A.240, 385A.450, 385A.670, 385A.720, 386.790, 387.1213, 387.1214, 387.1223, 387.124, 387.1241, 387.1242, 387.12445, 387.1246, 387.12463, 387.12468, 388.040, 388.380, 388.429, 388.795, 388A.105, 388A.159, 388A.171, 388A.220, 388A.229, 388A.249, 388A.252, 388A.258, 388A.270, 388A.279, 388A.378, 388A.487, 388D.250, 388D.260, 388D.270, 388D.280, 388G.130, 388G.140, 388G.200, 388G.650, 391A.550, 391A.580, 391A.585, 392.015, 392.125, 392.128, 392.750, 392.760, 392.775, 286.523, 363A.130, 363A.139, 363B.110, 363B.119, 679A.160, 680B.025, 680B.0395, 695B.320, 695F.090