SB81
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Primary Sponsor
Senate Committee on Education
Public exhibits
3
Support 0 · Opp 0 · Neutral 1
Auditor findings
0
recusal 0 · QPQ 0
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public scho
Existing law creates the Department of Education, which consists of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. (NRS 385.010) Section 1 of this bill requires the Department to create and conduct surveys of: (1) public school employees, assessing school climate and working conditions in schools; and (2) public school employees who are leaving employment at a public school. Section 1 additionally: (1) sets forth when such surveys must be administered; (2) sets forth how a school district must use the results of such surveys; (3) prohibits data collected from such surveys from being used in certain evaluations; (4) requires the Department to recognize schools which achieve a certain response rate on such surveys in the statewide system of accountability; and (5) requires the Department to submit annually to the Commission on School Funding and the State Board a report containing data from the surveys. Existing law requires the principal of each school, in consultation with the employees of the school, to prepare a plan to improve the achievement of the pupils enrolled in the school. (NRS 385A.650) Section 2 of this bill requires the plan to be informed by the results of surveys conducted pursuant to section 1. Existing law creates the Education Stabilization Account in the State Education Fund and requires each school district, each year after the close of the previous fiscal year and before the issuance of the State Controller's annual report,
NELIS exhibits (3 on file)
Neutral (1)
- Nevada Department of Education (Proposed Amendments)
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