2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 389 - Examinations, Courses, Standards and Diplomas
NRS 389.560 - Reporting of results of examinations; reconciliation of number of pupils taking examinations.

1. The State Board shall adopt regulations that require the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Department and the Council, in the form and manner prescribed by the Superintendent, the results of the examinations administered pursuant to NRS 389.550. The State Board shall not include in the regulations any provision that would violate the confidentiality of the test scores of an individual pupil.

2. The results of the examinations must be reported for each school, including, without limitation, each charter school, school district and this State, as follows:

(a) The percentage of pupils who have demonstrated proficiency, as defined by the Department, and took the examinations under regular testing conditions; and

(b) The percentage of pupils who have demonstrated proficiency, as defined by the Department, and took the examinations with modifications or accommodations, if such reporting does not violate the confidentiality of the test scores of any individual pupil.

3. Not later than 10 days after the Department receives the results of the examinations, the Department shall transmit a copy of the results to the Legislative Bureau of Educational Accountability and Program Evaluation in a manner that does not violate the confidentiality of the test scores of any individual pupil.

4. On or before July 1 of each year, the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, shall report to the Department the following information for each examination administered in the public schools in the school district or charter school:

(a) The examination administered;

(b) The grade level or levels of pupils to whom the examination was administered;

(c) The costs incurred by the school district or charter school in administering each examination; and

(d) The purpose, if any, for which the results of the examination are used by the school district or charter school.

On or before September 1 of each year, the Department shall transmit to the Budget Division of the Department of Administration and the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau the information submitted to the Department pursuant to this subsection.

5. The superintendent of schools of each school district and the governing body of each charter school, through the sponsor of the charter school, shall certify that the number of pupils who took the examinations is equal to the number of pupils who are enrolled in each school in the school district or in the charter school who are required to take the examinations.

6. In addition to the information required by subsection 4, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall:

(a) Report the number of pupils who were not exempt from taking the examinations but were absent from school on the day that the examinations were administered; and

(b) Reconcile the number of pupils who were required to take the examinations with the number of pupils who were exempt from taking the examinations or absent from school on the day that the examinations were administered.

(Added to NRS by 1999, 3386; A 2001, 242, 1491, 3160; 2003, 1144; 2003, 19th Special Session, 65; 2011, 511)