2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 385 - State Administrative Organization
NRS 385.358 - Summary of accountability information for individual schools; submission and public dissemination of summary; availability of summary on Internet.

1. The principal of each public school, including, without limitation, each charter school, shall prepare a summary of accountability information on the form prescribed by the Department pursuant to subsection 3 or an expanded form, as applicable. The summary must include, without limitation:

(a) The information set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 385.34692, reported only for the school;

(b) Information on the involvement and engagement of parents, legal guardians and families in the education of their children; and

(c) Such other information as is directed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction in consultation with the Bureau.

2. The summary prepared pursuant to subsection 1 must be presented in an understandable and uniform format and, to the extent practicable, provided in a language that parents will likely understand.

3. The Department shall, in consultation with the Bureau, the school districts, the State Public Charter School Authority and each college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education that sponsors a charter school, prescribe a form that contains the basic information required by subsection 1. The principal of a school may use an expanded form that contains additions to the form prescribed by the Department if the basic information contained in the expanded form complies with the form prescribed by the Department.

4. On or before October 20 of each year:

(a) The principal of each public school shall submit the summary in electronic format to the:

(1) Department;

(2) Bureau; and

(3) Board of trustees of the school district in which the school is located or, if the school is a charter school, to the sponsor of the charter school and the governing body of the charter school.

(b) The school district in which the school is located shall ensure that the summary is posted on the Internet website maintained by the school, if any, or the Internet website maintained by the school district, if any. The sponsor of a charter school shall ensure that each summary of the charter school is posted on the Internet website maintained by the charter school, if any, or the Internet website maintained by the sponsor, if any. If the summary is not posted on the website of the school, the school district or the sponsor of the charter school, as applicable, the school district or the sponsor of the charter school, as applicable, shall otherwise provide for public dissemination of the summary.

(c) The principal of each public school shall ensure that the parents and legal guardians of the pupils enrolled in the school have sufficient information concerning the availability of the summary, including, without limitation, information that describes how to access the summary on the Internet website, if any, and how a parent or guardian may otherwise access the summary.

(d) The principal of each public school shall provide a written copy of the summary to each parent and legal guardian of a pupil enrolled in the school.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 1158; A 2011, 565, 1977, 2331)