Nevada § 385A.670 - Annual determination of whether public schools are meeting school achievement targets and performance targets; transmission of determinations; effect of irregularity in testing administration or testing security

§ 385A.670. Annual determination of whether public schools are meeting school achievement targets and performance targets; transmission of determinations; effect of irregularity in testing administration or testing security

1. On or before July 31 of each year, the Department shall determine whether each

public school is meeting the school achievement targets and performance targets established

pursuant to the statewide system of accountability for public schools. 2. The determination pursuant to subsection 1 for a public school, including, without

limitation, a charter school sponsored by the board of trustees of the school district,

must be made in consultation with the board of trustees of the school district in

which the public school is located. If a charter school is sponsored by the State Public Charter School Authority, a

college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education or a city or county,

the Department shall make a determination for the charter school in consultation with

the State Public Charter School Authority, the institution within the Nevada System

of Higher Education or the city or county that sponsors the charter school, as applicable. The determination made for each school must be based only upon the information and

data for those pupils who are enrolled in the school for a full academic year. On or before July 31 of each year, the Department shall transmit: (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) or (c), the determination made for

each public school to the board of trustees of the school district in which the public

school is located. (b) To the State Public Charter School Authority the determination made for each charter

school that is sponsored by the State Public Charter School Authority. (c) The determination made for the charter school to the institution that sponsors

the charter school if a charter school is sponsored by a college or university within

the Nevada System of Higher Education or a city or county. 3. If the number of pupils in a particular group who are enrolled in a public school

is insufficient to yield statistically reliable information: (a) The Department shall not determine that the school has failed to meet the performance

targets established pursuant to the statewide system of accountability for public

schools based solely upon that particular group. (b) The pupils in such a group must be included in the overall count of pupils enrolled

in the school who took the examinations. The Department shall use the mechanism approved by the United States Department of

Education for the statewide system of accountability for public schools for determining

the number of pupils that must be in a group for that group to yield statistically

reliable information. 4. If an irregularity in testing administration or an irregularity in testing security

occurs at a school and the irregularity invalidates the test scores of pupils, those

test scores must be included in the scores of pupils reported for the school, the

attendance of those pupils must be counted towards the total number of pupils who

took the examinations and the pupils must be included in the total number of pupils

who were required to take the examinations. 5. As used in this section: (a) “ Irregularity in testing administration ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 390.255 . (b) “ Irregularity in testing security ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 390.260 .