- 82nd Session (2023)
Senate Bill No. 340–Senators Dondero Loop, Cannizzaro, Nguyen,
Spearman, Neal; Daly, Donate, Lange, Ohrenschall, Pazina
and Scheible
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AN ACT relating to education; requiring the board of trustees of a
school district and the State Public Charter School Authority
to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction plans
for the provision of summer school to certain pupils;
requiring the submission to certain entities of certain reports
relating to such plans for the provision of summer school;
and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Section 1 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and
the State Public Charter School Authority to submit to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction a plan to provide summer school to pupils in all grades during the 2023
and 2024 calendar years. Section 1 sets forth certain requirements for the plan to
provide summer school. Section 1 further requires the board of trustees of a school
district or the governing body of a charter school, as applicable, to provide
transportation and certain meals to pupils who attend summer school. Section 1 sets
forth requirements relating to the hiring and payment of teachers and other
personnel for summer school. Section 1 also authorizes the board of trustees of
each school district or the State Public Charter School Authority to use any
available resources for the provision of summer school.
Section 2 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and
the State Public Charter School Authority to submit a report containing certain
information relating to summer school to the Superintendent of Public Instruction
on or before November 30, 2023, and November 30, 2024, respectively. Section 2
also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a compilation of
such reports to various governmental entities. Section 2 requires the board of
trustees of a school district and the State Public Charter School Authority to
identify separately for pupils who attended summer school in-person and through a
program of virtual learning one or more measures of pupil achievement, including
measures that compare the results of any standardized assessment or examination
administered: (1) in the spring of the 2022-2023 school year with the results of any
assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2023-2024 school year;
and (2) in the spring of the 2023-2024 school year with the results of any
assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2024-2025 school year.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. 1. Not later than 30 days after the effective date
of this act, the board of trustees of each school district and the State
Public Charter School Authority shall submit to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction a plan to provide summer school to pupils in
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all grades during the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. The plan must
include, without limitation:
(a) The option for pupils to attend summer school either in-
person or through a program of virtual learning; and
(b) The manner in which the school district, schools within the
school district, the State Public Charter School Authority or charter
schools sponsored by the State Public Charter School Authority will
target pupils who are most at risk of loss of learning to receive
services under the plan, including, without limitation:
(1) Pupils who are members of a household that lacks the
financial resources necessary to access services to address loss of
learning;
(2) Pupils in grade 11 or 12 who are credit deficient;
(3) Pupils in prekindergarten or kindergarten;
(4) Pupils in grade 1, 2 or 3 who are deficient in the subject
areas of mathematics or reading;
(5) Pupils in middle school or high school who are deficient
in the subject areas of science, technology, engineering, the arts or
mathematics;
(6) Pupils with disabilities;
(7) Pupils who are English learners; and
(8) Pupils who are chronically absent.
2. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing
body of a charter school, as applicable, shall provide transportation
services and school breakfast and school lunch to pupils who attend
summer school pursuant to subsection 1.
3. All persons hired to work in summer school pursuant to
subsection 1, including, without limitation, teachers, other licensed
personnel and support personnel:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, must already
have a contract to work at a school within the school district or the
charter school, as applicable; and
(b) Shall receive compensation for working in summer school
based upon the rate in the contract between the employee and the
school, in addition to the regular compensation of the employee,
subject to any collective bargaining agreement.
4. If a school district or charter school is unable to hire a
sufficient number of persons to work in summer school pursuant to
paragraph (a) of subsection 3, the school district or charter school
may hire retired public employees pursuant to NRS 286.523. If a
school district or charter school hires a retired public employee
pursuant to this subsection, the public employee must have
submitted his or her fingerprints to the school district, governing
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body of a charter school or Superintendent of Public Instruction, as
applicable, for a report on the criminal history of the public
employee recently enough that a report on the criminal history of the
public employee does not have to be completed again.
5. The compensation that is paid to an employee pursuant to
subsection 3 must not be included for the purposes of calculating the
future retirement benefits of the employee.
6. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing
body of a charter school are authorized to use any available
resources in carrying out the plan developed pursuant to
subsection 1.
Sec. 2. 1. On or before November 30, 202 3, and
November 30, 2024, respectively, the board of trustees of each
school district and the State Public Charter School Authority shall
submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a report on the
plan to provide summer school developed pursuant to section 1 of
this act. On or before December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024,
respectively, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit a
compilation of the reports received pursuant to this subsection to:
(a) The Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel
Bureau;
(b) The Governor;
(c) The Interim Finance Committee; and
(d) The Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.
2. The report submitted pursuant to subsection 1 must, without
limitation:
(a) Identify the results of summer school provided to pupils
pursuant to section 1 of this act;
(b) Outline the amount of federal money received and how
federal, state and local money was used to administer summer
school;
(c) State the number of pupils who attended summer school
in-person;
(d) State the number of pupils who attended summer school
through a program of virtual learning;
(e) State the number of pupils who used transportation services;
(f) State the number of pupils who received school breakfast or
school lunch; and
(g) Identify separately for pupils who attended summer school
in-person and pupils who attended summer school through a
program of virtual learning:
(1) One or more measures of pupil achievement, including,
without limitation, measures that compare the results of any
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standardized assessment or examination administered by the school
district or charter school, as applicable, during the spring of the
2022-2023 school year with the results of any standardized
assessment or examination administered during the fall of the 2023-
2024 school year;
(2) One or more measures of pupil achievement, including,
without limitation, measures that compare the results of any
standardized assessment or examination administered by the school
district or charter school during the spring of the 2023-2024 school
year with the results of any standardized assessment or examination
administered during the fall of the 2024-2025 school year; and
(3) The attendance of the pupils.
Sec. 3. The provisions of NRS 354.599 do not apply to any
additional expenses of a local government that are related to the
provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval,
and expires by limitation on December 31, 2024.
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