Nevada § 388G.500 - Legislative findings and declaration

§ 388G.500. Legislative findings and declaration

1. The Legislature hereby finds that in large school districts: (a) Because of their significantly larger enrollment of pupils, greater number of

local school precincts and more expansive and extensive scope of operations, large

school districts are prone to develop large, complex and potentially inefficient,

cumbersome and unresponsive bureaucracies that tend to become too dependent upon a

centralized operational model where most decision-making is made by central services. (b) Under such a centralized operational model in large school districts, the operational

structure and culture may result in an entrenched and inflexible operational paradigm

where decisions are made by central services without regular, consistent or adequate

examination, exploration and consideration of the particularized, specialized or localized

circumstances, needs and concerns of each local school precinct. (c) When more decision-making is transferred from central services in large school

districts to the site-based administrators, teachers and other staff and the parents

and legal guardians of pupils in each local school precinct, the State's system of

public schools is better structured to educate efficiently, effectively and successfully

the diverse and varied populations of pupils within large school districts because

a site-based operational model encourages decision-making that is more innovative,

proactive and responsive to the particularized, specialized or localized circumstances,

needs and concerns of each local school precinct. (d) To promote, achieve and advance the educational policies and objectives of transitioning

and restructuring large school districts from a centralized operational model to a

more decentralized and autonomous site-based operational model, it is necessary and

essential to transfer and redirect more funding from the control of central services

to the control of the site-based administrators, teachers and other staff and the

parents and legal guardians of pupils in each local school precinct and ensure that

more funding follows pupils with increased or specialized needs or abilities to each

local school precinct. 2. The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the best interests of this State,

beneficial to the public's welfare and necessary and essential to the efficient, effective

and successful operation of the State's system of public schools to implement and

carry out the provisions of NRS 388G.500 to 388G.810 , inclusive, in large school districts for the purposes of promoting, achieving and

advancing the educational policies and objectives of this State.