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3	3	- 82nd Session (2023)
4	4	Senate Bill No. 340–Senators Dondero Loop, Cannizzaro, Nguyen,
5	5	Spearman, Neal; Daly, Donate, Lange, Ohrenschall, Pazina
6	6	and Scheible
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8	8	CHAPTER..........
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10	10	AN ACT relating to education; requiring the board of trustees of a
11	11	school district and the State Public Charter School Authority
12	12	to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction plans
13	13	for the provision of summer school to certain pupils;
14	14	requiring the submission to certain entities of certain reports
15	15	relating to such plans for the provision of summer school;
16	16	and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
17	17	Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
18	18	Section 1 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and
19	19	the State Public Charter School Authority to submit to the Superintendent of Public
20	20	Instruction a plan to provide summer school to pupils in all grades during the 2023
21	21	and 2024 calendar years. Section 1 sets forth certain requirements for the plan to
22	22	provide summer school. Section 1 further requires the board of trustees of a school
23	23	district or the governing body of a charter school, as applicable, to provide
24	24	transportation and certain meals to pupils who attend summer school. Section 1 sets
25	25	forth requirements relating to the hiring and payment of teachers and other
26	26	personnel for summer school. Section 1 also authorizes the board of trustees of
27	27	each school district or the State Public Charter School Authority to use any
28	28	available resources for the provision of summer school.
29	29	Section 2 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and
30	30	the State Public Charter School Authority to submit a report containing certain
31	31	information relating to summer school to the Superintendent of Public Instruction
32	32	on or before November 30, 2023, and November 30, 2024, respectively. Section 2
33	33	also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a compilation of
34	34	such reports to various governmental entities. Section 2 requires the board of
35	35	trustees of a school district and the State Public Charter School Authority to
36	36	identify separately for pupils who attended summer school in-person and through a
37	37	program of virtual learning one or more measures of pupil achievement, including
38	38	measures that compare the results of any standardized assessment or examination
39	39	administered: (1) in the spring of the 2022-2023 school year with the results of any
40	40	assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2023-2024 school year;
41	41	and (2) in the spring of the 2023-2024 school year with the results of any
42	42	assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2024-2025 school year.
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44	44	EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
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47	47	THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
48	48	SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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50	50	Section 1. 1. Not later than 30 days after the effective date
51	51	of this act, the board of trustees of each school district and the State
52	52	Public Charter School Authority shall submit to the Superintendent
53	53	of Public Instruction a plan to provide summer school to pupils in
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57	57	- 82nd Session (2023)
58	58	all grades during the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. The plan must
59	59	include, without limitation:
60	60	(a) The option for pupils to attend summer school either in-
61	61	person or through a program of virtual learning; and
62	62	(b) The manner in which the school district, schools within the
63	63	school district, the State Public Charter School Authority or charter
64	64	schools sponsored by the State Public Charter School Authority will
65	65	target pupils who are most at risk of loss of learning to receive
66	66	services under the plan, including, without limitation:
67	67	(1) Pupils who are members of a household that lacks the
68	68	financial resources necessary to access services to address loss of
69	69	learning;
70	70	(2) Pupils in grade 11 or 12 who are credit deficient;
71	71	(3) Pupils in prekindergarten or kindergarten;
72	72	(4) Pupils in grade 1, 2 or 3 who are deficient in the subject
73	73	areas of mathematics or reading;
74	74	(5) Pupils in middle school or high school who are deficient
75	75	in the subject areas of science, technology, engineering, the arts or
76	76	mathematics;
77	77	(6) Pupils with disabilities;
78	78	(7) Pupils who are English learners; and
79	79	(8) Pupils who are chronically absent.
80	80	2. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing
81	81	body of a charter school, as applicable, shall provide transportation
82	82	services and school breakfast and school lunch to pupils who attend
83	83	summer school pursuant to subsection 1.
84	84	3. All persons hired to work in summer school pursuant to
85	85	subsection 1, including, without limitation, teachers, other licensed
86	86	personnel and support personnel:
87	87	(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, must already
88	88	have a contract to work at a school within the school district or the
89	89	charter school, as applicable; and
90	90	(b) Shall receive compensation for working in summer school
91	91	based upon the rate in the contract between the employee and the
92	92	school, in addition to the regular compensation of the employee,
93	93	subject to any collective bargaining agreement.
94	94	4. If a school district or charter school is unable to hire a
95	95	sufficient number of persons to work in summer school pursuant to
96	96	paragraph (a) of subsection 3, the school district or charter school
97	97	may hire retired public employees pursuant to NRS 286.523. If a
98	98	school district or charter school hires a retired public employee
99	99	pursuant to this subsection, the public employee must have
100	100	submitted his or her fingerprints to the school district, governing
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104	104	- 82nd Session (2023)
105	105	body of a charter school or Superintendent of Public Instruction, as
106	106	applicable, for a report on the criminal history of the public
107	107	employee recently enough that a report on the criminal history of the
108	108	public employee does not have to be completed again.
109	109	5. The compensation that is paid to an employee pursuant to
110	110	subsection 3 must not be included for the purposes of calculating the
111	111	future retirement benefits of the employee.
112	112	6. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing
113	113	body of a charter school are authorized to use any available
114	114	resources in carrying out the plan developed pursuant to
115	115	subsection 1.
116	116	Sec. 2. 1. On or before November 30, 202 3, and
117	117	November 30, 2024, respectively, the board of trustees of each
118	118	school district and the State Public Charter School Authority shall
119	119	submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a report on the
120	120	plan to provide summer school developed pursuant to section 1 of
121	121	this act. On or before December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024,
122	122	respectively, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit a
123	123	compilation of the reports received pursuant to this subsection to:
124	124	(a) The Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel
125	125	Bureau;
126	126	(b) The Governor;
127	127	(c) The Interim Finance Committee; and
128	128	(d) The Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.
129	129	2. The report submitted pursuant to subsection 1 must, without
130	130	limitation:
131	131	(a) Identify the results of summer school provided to pupils
132	132	pursuant to section 1 of this act;
133	133	(b) Outline the amount of federal money received and how
134	134	federal, state and local money was used to administer summer
135	135	school;
136	136	(c) State the number of pupils who attended summer school
137	137	in-person;
138	138	(d) State the number of pupils who attended summer school
139	139	through a program of virtual learning;
140	140	(e) State the number of pupils who used transportation services;
141	141	(f) State the number of pupils who received school breakfast or
142	142	school lunch; and
143	143	(g) Identify separately for pupils who attended summer school
144	144	in-person and pupils who attended summer school through a
145	145	program of virtual learning:
146	146	(1) One or more measures of pupil achievement, including,
147	147	without limitation, measures that compare the results of any
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152	152	standardized assessment or examination administered by the school
153	153	district or charter school, as applicable, during the spring of the
154	154	2022-2023 school year with the results of any standardized
155	155	assessment or examination administered during the fall of the 2023-
156	156	2024 school year;
157	157	(2) One or more measures of pupil achievement, including,
158	158	without limitation, measures that compare the results of any
159	159	standardized assessment or examination administered by the school
160	160	district or charter school during the spring of the 2023-2024 school
161	161	year with the results of any standardized assessment or examination
162	162	administered during the fall of the 2024-2025 school year; and
163	163	(3) The attendance of the pupils.
164	164	Sec. 3. The provisions of NRS 354.599 do not apply to any
165	165	additional expenses of a local government that are related to the
166	166	provisions of this act.
167	167	Sec. 4. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval,
168	168	and expires by limitation on December 31, 2024.
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