Nevada § 385A.800 - Establishment and maintenance of system; access to data within system

§ 385A.800. Establishment and maintenance of system; access to data within system

1. The Department shall establish and maintain an automated system of accountability

information for Nevada. The system must: (a) Have the capacity to provide and report information, including, without limitation,

the results of the achievement of pupils: (1) In the manner required by 20 U.S.C. §§ 6301 et seq., and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and NRS 385A.070 and 385A.400 ; and (2) In a separate reporting for each group of pupils identified in the statewide system

of accountability for public schools; (b) Include a system of unique identification for each pupil: (1) To ensure that individual pupils may be tracked over time throughout this State; (2) That, to the extent practicable, may be used for purposes of identifying a pupil

for both the public schools and the Nevada System of Higher Education, if that pupil

enrolls in the System after graduation from high school; and (3) Which must, to the extent money is available for this purpose, include, without

limitation, a unique identifier for each pupil whose parent or guardian is a member

of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National

Guard in a manner that will allow for the disaggregation of each category; (c) Have the capacity to provide longitudinal comparisons of the academic achievement,

rate of attendance and rate of graduation of pupils over time throughout this State; (d) Have the capacity to perform a variety of longitudinal analyses of the results

of individual pupils on assessments, including, without limitation, the results of

pupils by classroom and by school; (e) Have the capacity to identify which teachers are assigned to individual pupils; (f) Have the capacity to provide other information concerning schools and school districts

that is not linked to individual pupils, including, without limitation, the ratings

of schools and, if available, school districts pursuant to the statewide system of

accountability for public schools and an identification of which schools, if any,

are persistently dangerous; (g) Have the capacity to access financial accountability information for each public

school, including, without limitation, each charter school, for each school district

and for this State as a whole; and (h) Be designed to improve the ability of the Department, the sponsors of charter

schools, the school districts and the public schools in this State, including, without

limitation, charter schools, to account for the pupils who are enrolled in the public

schools, including, without limitation, charter schools. The information maintained pursuant to paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) must be used for

the purpose of improving the achievement of pupils and improving classroom instruction. 2. The Department shall establish, to the extent authorized by the Family Educational

Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g , and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, a mechanism by which persons or entities,

including, without limitation, state officers who are members of the Executive or

Legislative Branch, administrators of public schools and school districts, teachers

and other educational personnel, and parents and guardians, will have different types

of access to the accountability information contained within the automated system

to the extent that such information is necessary for the performance of a duty or

to the extent that such information may be made available to the general public without

posing a threat to the confidentiality of an individual pupil. 3. On or before December 31 of each year, the Department shall share with the Interagency

Council on Veterans Affairs aggregate data collected pursuant to subsection 1 concerning

each pupil whose parent or guardian is a member of the Armed Forces of the United

States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard. 4. The Department may, to the extent authorized by the Family Educational Rights and

Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g , and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, enter into an agreement with the Nevada

System of Higher Education to provide access to data contained within the automated

system for research purposes.