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AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to award money to school districts to provide compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; requiring school districts to report certain information relating to hard-to-fill positions; eliminating the authority in certain large school districts to use weighted funding provided to a school for certain pupils to pay certain hiring and retention incentives; revising the powers of the Subcommittee on Education Accountability of the Interim Finance Committee; making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to the Department to fund compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; making an appropriation to provide money to charter schools for salary increases for teachers and education support professionals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to award money to school districts to provide compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; requiring school districts to report certain information relating to hard-to-fill positions; eliminating the authority in certain large school districts to use weighted funding provided to a school for certain pupils to pay certain hiring and retention incentives; revising the powers of the Subcommittee on Education Accountability of the Interim Finance Committee; making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to the Department to fund compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; making an appropriation to provide money to charter schools for salary increases for teachers and education support professionals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Primary Sponsor
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Public exhibits
12
Support 7 · Opp 0 · Neutral 1
Auditor findings
0
recusal 0 · QPQ 0
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to award money to school districts to provide compen
Section 2 of this bill requires the Department of Education, to the extent that money has been appropriated for that purpose, to make awards to school districts to provide compensation, in addition to base pay, for hard-to-fill positions in the public schools of this State. Section 2 defines “hard-to-fill position” as including: (1) teacher positions at certain Title I schools; and (2) teacher positions and other positions filled by licensed educational personnel whose duties include actively teaching pupils in certain subjects which are suffering from a critical labor shortage. Section 2 requires each school district to submit a biennial report to the Office of Finance in the Office of the Governor and the Interim Finance Committee regarding the number of teachers receiving such additional compensation, the total amount of such additional compensation being provided in the school district and the number of hard-to-fill positions in public schools in the school district. Section 8.9 of this bill imposes certain requirements for the contents of this report which are applicable only to the report that is required to be submitted on or before December 1, 2026. Existing law requires the Governor, to the extent practicable, to include in the proposed executive budget certain recommendations concerning education funding, including recommendations for the statewide base per pupil funding amount and the multiplier for each category of pupils. (NRS 387.12455) Section 8.1 of this bill
NELIS exhibits (12 on file)
Support (7)
- Marie Neisess — President of CCEA (Testimony)
- Matt Nighswonger — Vice President of CCEA (Testimony)
- Elizabeth Adler — Educator CCEA (Testimony)
- Rita Cortez — Special Education English Teacher, CCEA (Testimony)
- Sara Ross — Social Studies Teacher CCEA (Testimony)
- Michelle McClain — Middle School Math Teacher, Pinecrest Academy of Northern Nevada (Email)
- Connie L. Malin — Ph.D., Chief Educational Officer, Innovations International Charter School of Nevada (Letter)
Neutral (1)
- (unattributed) (Testimony)
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