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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.1035 - "Volunteer" defined.

"Volunteer" means any person who, without compensation, works at, assists with or oversees any activity or event conducted or sponsored by a public school during or outside of school hours. The term:
1. Includes, without limitation, a coach, assistant coach, director of in-school or extracurricular activities and chaperone of an overnight trip.
2. Does not include:
(a) A student who is enrolled at an institution of higher education and is:
(1) Taking a course which requires the student to be present in the classroom of the public school on a limited basis to observe and to be observed in the classroom; and
(2) Under direct supervision of a teacher or his or her professor at all times while in the classroom.
(b) An employee of a business, agency or organization that participates in a work-based learning program pursuant to NRS 389.167, other than an employee who directly oversees the participation of or has unsupervised contact with a pupil in the work-based learning program.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1520; A 2023, 1380)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.1055 - Regulations concerning method for determining whether to require volunteers of certain entities involved in work-based learning programs to submit fingerprints.

1. The Department shall prescribe by regulation a method for the board of trustees of a school district to determine if a business, agency or organization that is seeking to employ and supervise a pupil as a part of a work-based learning program pursuant to NRS 389.167 should be subject to the provisions of NRS 391.104 requiring a volunteer who is likely to have unsupervised contact with pupils to submit his or her fingerprints for an investigation into the criminal background of the volunteer.
2. The method prescribed by the Department pursuant to subsection 1 must include, without limitation, a process outlining how the board of trustees of a school district shall:
(a) Examine a business, agency or organization seeking to participate in a work-based learning program pursuant to NRS 389.167; and
(b) Determine if the employment and supervision of a pupil in the work-based learning program by the business, agency or organization examined pursuant to paragraph (a) would be appropriate for the pupil.
3. If the board of trustees of a school district determines the employment of a pupil in a work-based learning program pursuant to this section is appropriate for the pupil pursuant to subsection 2, the board of trustees may exempt any volunteers employed by the business, agency or organization from the requirements of NRS 391.104 requiring a volunteer who is likely to have unsupervised contact with pupils to submit his or her fingerprints for an investigation into the criminal background of the volunteer.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 1380)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.106 - List of approved entities for which volunteer of entity is authorized to be volunteer for school without investigation into criminal background.

The Department shall compile a list of entities for which it approves a school to allow a volunteer of the entity to be a volunteer for the school without submitting fingerprints or an investigation into his or her criminal background. The Department shall:
1. Include on the list any entity that:
(a) Requires an investigation into the criminal background of a person for the purpose of employment, licensure or volunteering that the Department determines to be at least as stringent as an investigation into the criminal background of a volunteer conducted pursuant to NRS 388A.515, 388C.200 or 391.104; and
(b) Meets any other requirements prescribed by regulation of the Department; and
2. Remove from the list any entity that the Department determines no longer meets the requirements of subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1522)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.110 - Superintendent of schools: Employment; qualifications; term; dismissal; administration of oaths.

1. The board of trustees of a school district may:
(a) Employ any person the board of trustees determines is qualified to serve as the superintendent of schools of the school district. The Commission may require the superintendent of any school district to hold a master’s degree.
(b) Define the powers and fix the duties of the superintendent of schools.
(c) Fix the salary of the superintendent of schools.
2. If the board of trustees of a school district employs a person who is not licensed as an administrator to serve as the superintendent of schools, the board of trustees shall employ a person who is licensed as an administrator to oversee the academic programs of the public schools within the school district.
3. A superintendent of schools may be employed for an initial term not to exceed 4 years. The term of any subsequent employment may be of any duration.
4. A superintendent of schools may be dismissed at any time for cause.
5. A superintendent of schools may administer oaths or affirmations relating to public schools.
[333:32:1956]—(NRS A 1971, 549; 1979, 1603; 1985, 868; 1987, 1000; 1995, 33; 1999, 1134)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.115 - Consideration of military education, training or occupational experience.

If a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States submits an application for employment in a school district for a position that requires certain training, experience or licensure in a skilled trade, the school district must consider any military education, training or occupational experience listed on a Joint Services Transcript or a similar document as credit towards any such required training, experience or licensure.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 888)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.120 - Written contract of employment for licensed personnel; limitations on employment; suspension or termination for failure to maintain valid license; exception; submission of employment information to Department; confidentiality of employment information.

1. Boards of trustees of the school districts in this State may employ legally qualified teachers and other licensed personnel and may determine their salaries and the length of the term of school for which they are employed. These conditions and any other conditions agreed upon by the parties must be embodied in a written contract, or notice of reemployment, to be approved by the board of trustees and accepted and signed by the employee. A copy of the contract or notice of reemployment, properly written, must be delivered to each teacher or other licensed employee not later than the opening of the term of school.
2. A board of trustees may not employ teachers or other licensed personnel for any school year commencing after the expiration of the time for which any member of the board of trustees was elected or appointed.
3. It is unlawful for the board of trustees of any school district to employ any teacher who is not legally qualified to teach all the grades which the teacher is engaged to teach. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 391.3015, the board of trustees shall suspend or terminate, as applicable, the employment of any teacher who fails to maintain a license issued pursuant to this chapter in force, if such a license is required for employment. Any such suspension or termination must comply with the requirements of NRS 391.301 to 391.309, inclusive.
4. The school district shall annually, on or before the date prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, submit to the Department, in a form prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the following information for each licensed employee employed by the school district during that year:
(a) The amount of salary of the employee;
(b) The designated assignment, as that term is defined by the Department, of the employee; and
(c) The overall performance rating of the employee as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective under the statewide performance evaluation system established by the State Board pursuant to NRS 391.465 and the criteria for making the designation.
5. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, information submitted to the Department pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 4 is confidential.
[334:32:1956]—(NRS A 1967, 449; 1969, 127; 1979, 1604; 1987, 1001; 1993, 1432; 2003, 2820; 2007, 312; 2017, 2125)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.125 - Request by board of trustees to employ teachers who do not hold appropriate endorsement if shortage exists; limitations; duty of Commission and State Board if request granted.

1. If the board of trustees of a school district determines that a shortage of teachers exists within the school district in a particular subject area, the board of trustees may, on or before September 1 of the school year in which such a determination is made, submit a written request to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to employ persons who are licensed teachers but who do not hold an endorsement to teach in the subject area for which there is a shortage of teachers at a public school within the school district. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant such a request if the Superintendent determines that a shortage of teachers exists in the subject area. If the Superintendent of Public Instruction grants a request pursuant to this subsection, a person who holds a license to teach but not an endorsement in the subject area for which the request was granted may be employed by the school district for not more than 3 school years to teach in that subject area at a public school within the school district.
2. If the Superintendent of Public Instruction grants a request pursuant to subsection 1, the Superintendent shall submit a written report to the Commission and the State Board that includes the name of the school district for which the request was granted and the subject area for which the request was granted. Upon receipt of such a report, the Commission and the State Board shall consider whether to adopt revisions to the requirements for an endorsement in that subject area to address the shortage of teachers.
(Added to NRS by 2001 Special Session, 176; A 2003, 19th Special Session, 74; 2013, 1932; 2017, 2125, 3260)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.135 - Determination of number of job vacancies; reporting.

1. To the extent that money is available, the board of trustees of a school district shall determine the number of job vacancies based on the number of licensed teachers needed to achieve the recommended ratios of pupils per licensed teacher prescribed by the State Board pursuant to NRS 388.890. A position held by a full-time substitute teacher shall be considered vacant for the purposes of this section.
2. The board of trustees of each school district shall post on the Internet website maintained by the school district the number of positions within the school district that are held by full-time substitute teachers and teachers licensed or working towards obtaining a license through an alternative route to licensure.
3. On or before February 1 of each even-numbered year, the board of trustees of each school district shall report to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education the:
(a) Number of teachers employed by the school district who are working towards obtaining a license by participating in a program for an alternative route to licensure;
(b) The name of each program for an alternative route to licensure in which teachers employed by the school district are participating;
(c) The number of teachers employed by the school district who are participating in each program for an alternative route to licensure identified pursuant to paragraph (b);
(d) The demographic information of teachers employed by the school district who are participating in each program for an alternative route to licensure;
(e) The rate of completion of teachers employed by the school district in each program for an alternative route to licensure identified pursuant to paragraph (b); and
(f) The rate of retention by the school district of teachers who participate in each program for an alternative route to licensure.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 2129)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.145 - Involuntary transfer or reassignment of unlicensed employees.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any involuntary transfer or reassignment of an unlicensed employee must be based on assignment and seniority and may not be made as a form of discipline.
2. An unlicensed employee may be reassigned for less than 30 days in response to temporary requirements for work.
3. If an unlicensed employee believes an involuntary transfer or reassignment was made as a form of discipline, he or she is entitled to a hearing on that issue.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1162)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 391.205)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.155 - School districts required to submit biannual report to Interim Finance Committee concerning employment of consultants.

Each school district in this State that employs a consultant shall, at least once every 6 months, submit to the Interim Finance Committee a report setting forth:
1. The number of consultants employed by the school district;
2. The purpose for which the school district employs each consultant;
3. The amount of money or other remuneration received by each consultant from the school district; and
4. The length of time each consultant has been employed by the school district.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 3104)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.160 - Determination of salaries: Standards for determining.

The salaries of teachers and other employees must be determined by the character of the service required as described in NRS 391.161 to 391.169, inclusive. A school district shall not discriminate between male and female employees in the matter of salary.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.1605 - Determination of salaries: Use of testing as factor in vertical promotion; appeals; prohibited acts; exception.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, notwithstanding the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, if the superintendent of schools or the board of trustees of a school district includes testing as a factor in a decision regarding the vertical promotion of an employee:
(a) The testing must be conducted by a third party which is independent from the superintendent or the board of trustees, as applicable.
(b) A third party which conducts a test must send to each employee who takes the test a confidential electronic mail message which contains the employee’s test score. The third party must send an employee’s test score to the employee and the superintendent or the board of trustees at the same time.
(c) The superintendent or the board of trustees, as applicable, shall not produce a list of the employees who took the test, ranked in order of their test scores, until after the third party which conducted the test has sent each employee his or her test score pursuant to paragraph (b).
(d) An employee who is aggrieved by his or her test score may appeal the testing process.
2. During the appeal process authorized by paragraph (d) of subsection 1:
(a) The employee who appeals the testing process is entitled to see:
(1) How his or her test was graded; and
(2) The questions which the employee answered incorrectly.
(b) The superintendent or the board of trustees, as applicable, shall ensure that the employee was ranked properly based on the employee’s test score.
3. A person who tampers with the score of a test taken by an employee is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
4. The provisions of this section do not apply to a district or school department that has less than 200 employees.
5. As used in this section, "test" and "testing" includes, without limitation, a written test, oral board or any other form or format of test of knowledge, skills, achievement or aptitude.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1717)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.161 - Determination of salaries: Increased salary for certain teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Each year when determining the salary of a teacher who holds certification issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a school district shall add 5 percent to the salary that the teacher would otherwise receive in 1 year for the teacher’s classification on the schedule of salaries for the school district if:
1. On or before January 31 of the school year, the teacher has submitted evidence satisfactory to the school district of his or her current certification; and
2. The teacher is assigned by the school district to provide classroom instruction during that school year.
No increase in salary may be given pursuant to this section during a particular school year to a teacher who submits evidence of certification after January 31 of that school year. For the first school year that a teacher submits evidence of his or her current certification, the board of trustees of the school district to whom the evidence was submitted shall pay the increase in salary required by this section retroactively to the beginning of that school year. Once a teacher has submitted evidence of such certification to the school district, the school district shall retain the evidence in its records, as applicable, for future school years. An increase in salary given in accordance with this section is in addition to any other increase to which the teacher may otherwise be entitled.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.162 - Determination of salaries: Increased salary for certain speech-language pathologists.

Each year when determining the salary of a person who is employed by a school district as a speech-language pathologist, the school district shall add 5 percent to the salary that the employee would otherwise receive in 1 year for the employee’s classification on the schedule of salaries for the school district if:
1. On or before September 15 of the school year, the employee has submitted evidence satisfactory to the school district of the employee’s:
(a) Licensure as a speech-language pathologist by the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Board;
(b) Certification as being clinically competent in speech-language pathology by:
(1) The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; or
(2) A successor organization to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association that is recognized and determined to be acceptable by the Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Board; and
2. The employee is assigned by the school district to serve as a speech-language pathologist during the school year.
No increase in salary may be given pursuant to this section during a particular school year to an employee who submits evidence of licensure and certification after September 15 of that school year. Once an employee has submitted evidence of such licensure and certification to the school district, the school district shall retain the evidence in its records, as applicable, for future school years. An increase in salary given in accordance with this section is in addition to any other increase to which the employee may otherwise be entitled.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.163 - Determination of salaries: Increased salary for certain professional school library media specialists with additional certification.

Each year when determining the salary of a person who is employed by a school district as a professional school library media specialist, the school district shall add 5 percent to the salary that the employee would otherwise receive in 1 year for the employee’s classification on the schedule of salaries of the school district if:
1. On or before September 15 of the school year, the employee has submitted evidence satisfactory to the school district of the employee’s current certification as a professional school library media specialist issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; and
2. The employee is assigned by the school district to serve as a professional school library media specialist during that school year.
No increase in salary may be given pursuant to this section during a particular school year to an employee who submits evidence of certification after September 15 of that school year. Once an employee has submitted evidence of such certification to the school district, the school district shall retain the evidence in its records, as applicable, for future school years. An increase in salary given in accordance with this section is in addition to any other increase to which the employee may otherwise be entitled.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.167 - Determination of salaries: Credit for previous teaching service.

1. In determining the salary of a licensed teacher who is employed by a school district after the teacher has been employed by another school district in this State, the present employer shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3:
(a) Give the teacher the same credit for previous teaching service as the teacher was receiving from the teacher’s former employer at the end of his or her former employment;
(b) Give the teacher credit for the teacher’s final year of service with his or her former employer, if credit for that service is not included in credit given pursuant to paragraph (a); and
(c) Place the teacher on the schedule of salaries of the school district in a classification that is commensurate with the level of education acquired by the teacher, as set forth in the applicable negotiated agreement with the present employer.
2. A school district may give the credit required by subsection 1 for previous teaching service earned in another state if the Commission has approved the standards for licensing teachers of that state. The Commission shall adopt regulations that establish the criteria by which the Commission will consider the standards for licensing teachers of other states for the purposes of this subsection. The criteria may include, without limitation, whether the Commission has authorized reciprocal licensure of educational personnel from the state under consideration.
3. This section does not:
(a) Require a school district to allow a teacher more credit for previous teaching service than the maximum credit for teaching experience provided for in the schedule of salaries established by it for its licensed personnel.
(b) Permit a school district to deny a teacher credit for his or her previous teaching service on the ground that the service differs in kind from the teaching experience for which credit is otherwise given by the school district.
4. As used in this section, "previous teaching service" means the total of:
(a) Any period of teaching service for which a teacher received credit from the teacher’s former employer at the beginning of his or her former employment; and
(b) The teacher’s period of teaching service in his or her former employment.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.169 - Determination of salaries: Credit for previous administrative service.

1. In determining the salary of a licensed administrator, other than the superintendent of schools, who is employed by a school district after the administrator has been employed by another school district in this State, the present employer shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2:
(a) Give the administrator the same credit for previous administrative service as the administrator was receiving from the administrator’s former employer, at the end of his or her former employment;
(b) Give the administrator credit for the administrator’s final year of service with his or her former employer, if credit for that service is not otherwise included in the credit given pursuant to paragraph (a); and
(c) Place the administrator on the schedule of salaries of the school district in a classification that is comparable to the classification the administrator had attained on the schedule of salaries of the administrator’s former employer.
2. This section does not:
(a) Require a school district to allow an administrator more credit for previous administrative service than the maximum credit for administrative experience provided for in the schedule of salaries established by it for its licensed personnel.
(b) Permit a school district to deny an administrator credit for his or her previous administrative service on the ground that the service differs in kind from the administrative experience for which credit is otherwise given by the school district.
3. As used in this section, "previous administrative service" means the total of:
(a) Any period of administrative service for which an administrator received credit from the administrator’s former employer at the beginning of his or her former employment; and
(b) The administrator’s period of administrative service in his or her former employment.
[338:32:1956]—(NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.170 - Conditions for receipt of public money as compensation by certain teachers and other employees; exception for charter schools.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a teacher or other employee for whom a license is required is not entitled to receive any portion of public money for schools as compensation for services rendered unless he or she:
(a) Is legally employed by the board of trustees of the school district or the governing body of the charter school in which he or she is teaching or performing other educational functions.
(b) Has a license authorizing him or her to teach or perform other educational functions at the level and, except as otherwise provided in NRS 391.125, in the field for which he or she is employed, issued in accordance with law and in full force at the time the services are rendered.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not prohibit the payment of public money to teachers or other employees who are employed by a charter school who are not required to hold a license or endorsement to teach pursuant to the provisions of NRS 388A.518.
[339:32:1956]—(NRS A 1967, 818; 1977, 223; 1979, 1605; 1987, 1001; 1997, 1872; 2001, 3161; 2001 Special Session, 184; 2003, 282; 2015, 3307; 2017, 3260; 2021, 494)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.172 - Reservation of money for negotiated salary increase; money does not revert and must not be subtracted from operating expenses.

1. If a school district negotiates with an employee organization pursuant to NRS 288.150 to increase the salary of employees for a fiscal year, the board of trustees of the school district shall reserve for that fiscal year an amount of money sufficient, when combined with any appropriation for that purpose and any money remaining in the account established pursuant to subsection 2, to carry out each such increase in the salary of an employee.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the money reserved by a board of trustees pursuant to subsection 1 and any money provided by appropriation to increase the salary of an employee of the school district who is subject to a negotiated increase in salary described in subsection 1 must be:
(a) Accounted for separately by the school district.
(b) Used only to pay an increase in salaries in accordance with subsection 1.
3. Any money reserved pursuant to subsection 1 for a fiscal year that remains in the account established pursuant to subsection 2 at the end of that fiscal year does not revert to the general fund of the school district, but must be carried forward to the next fiscal year and used only for the purpose of paying an increase in salaries negotiated between a school district and an employee organization pursuant to NRS 288.150 in subsequent fiscal years.
4. Any money reserved pursuant to subsection 1 must not be subtracted from the operating expenses of the school district for purposes of determining the budget of the school district for any other fiscal year.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 3261)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.175 - Payment of salaries of certain teachers and other employees from apportionment of public money; deductions from salary.

1. Boards of trustees of school districts in this state may pay toward the salaries of teachers and other employees the public money apportioned to school districts for that purpose, by giving them orders therefor on the county auditor.
2. Boards of trustees may:
(a) Deduct from the salary of any teacher or other employee, upon the written request of the teacher or other employee, money for the payment of premiums on insurance of any kind;
(b) Reduce or withhold increases in the salary of any teacher or other employee, upon the written request of the teacher or other employee, by or in an amount sufficient to purchase an annuity contract pursuant to the provisions of NRS 391.380; and
(c) Reduce or withhold from the salary of any teacher or other employee, upon the written request of the teacher or employee, an amount specified in the request to be held by the trustees pursuant to a deferred compensation agreement between the trustees and the teacher or other employee.
[337:32:1956]—(NRS A 1965, 712; 1977, 804; 1979, 1604)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 391.150)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.200 - Salaries of teachers are prior claims on school district fund.

The salaries of:
1. Teachers and other licensed personnel in a school district, as determined by the contracts between the teachers and other licensed employees and the board of trustees; and
2. Teachers in a charter school,
are prior claims upon the school district fund.
[342:32:1956]—(NRS A 1979, 1605; 1987, 1002; 1999, 3314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.2055 - Legislative declaration.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that:
1. Pupils are the most vital resource to the future of this State;
2. Persons who enter professions that necessitate interaction with the pupils of this State have an obligation to act professionally and ethically when dealing with a pupil;
3. Interactions and communications with pupils, whether taking place inside or outside the classroom, in person or at a distance, must:
(a) Promote a safe and respectful environment conducive to a positive educational experience; and
(b) Maintain appropriate boundaries of authority while fostering empathy and support for and encouragement of pupils.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 2799)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.2056 - Establishment of Code; training on Code to teachers, administrators and others; posting of Code on Internet website.

1. The Commission shall prescribe by regulation a written policy that establishes the Nevada Model Code of Educator Ethics for teachers, administrators and other persons employed by a school district or a charter school relating to interpersonal interactions and communications with pupils. The Nevada Model Code of Educator Ethics must, without limitation:
(a) Be developed in consultation with the boards of trustees of school districts, the governing bodies of charter schools and, as practicable, teachers, administrators and other persons employed by school districts and charter schools.
(b) Clearly state the guidelines for:
(1) Responsibility to the profession of education;
(2) Responsibility for professional competence;
(3) Responsibility to pupils;
(4) Responsibility to the school community; and
(5) The responsible and ethical use of technology, including, without limitation, electronic communication.
2. The board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school shall provide training on the Nevada Model Code of Educator Ethics to teachers, administrators and other persons employed by the school district or charter school. Upon completion of the training, each teacher, administrator and other person employed by a school district or a charter school must sign a written acknowledgment of the Nevada Model Code of Educator Ethics.
3. The Department shall post the Nevada Model Code of Educator Ethics prescribed by regulation pursuant to subsection 1 on the Internet website maintained by the Department and provide a copy of the Code to:
(a) The State Board;
(b) Each educational institution that provides a course of study or training for the education of teachers approved pursuant to NRS 391.037 and 391.038;
(c) Each qualified provider approved pursuant to NRS 391.019;
(d) The board of trustees of each school district; and
(e) The governing body of each charter school.
Each board of trustees and governing body must post the Code on the Internet website maintained by the school district or charter school, as applicable.
4. As used in this section, "electronic communication" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388.124.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 2799; A 2017, 2802)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.210 - Exercise of trustees’ authority in school by certain personnel.

The board of trustees of a school district may direct the administrators, principals, teachers and other licensed personnel employed by them to exercise such powers and authority in the schools as the board of trustees has under this title of NRS.
[343:32:1956]—(NRS A 1967, 456; 1979, 1605; 1987, 1002)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.230 - Filing of licenses with superintendent of school district; exception for unlicensed teachers of charter school.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, upon the opening of any public school in this state, every teacher and other licensed employee employed for that school shall file with the superintendent of the county school district a Nevada license entitling the holder to teach or perform other educational functions in the school in which he or she will be employed, and any other report that the Superintendent of Public Instruction requires.
2. The superintendent of the county school district shall acknowledge the receipt of each license and shall make a proper record thereof in the superintendent’s office. The license must remain on file and be safely kept in the office of the superintendent of the county school district.
3. This section does not apply to unlicensed teachers who are employed by a charter school.
[345:32:1956]—(NRS A 1959, 806; 1960, 29; 1969, 128; 1971, 524; 1979, 1605; 1987, 1002; 1999, 3314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.235 - Board of trustees authorized to adopt policy to engage district-level administrators in classroom.

1. The board of trustees of each school district may adopt a policy that sets forth procedures and conditions for a program to engage administrators employed by the school district at the district level in annual classroom instruction, observation and other activities in a manner that is appropriate for the responsibilities, position and duties of the administrators. If the board of trustees adopts such a policy, the policy must require each administrator employed by the school district at the district level to:
(a) If the administrator holds a license to teach, provide instruction in a core academic subject in a classroom for at least 1 regularly scheduled full instructional day in each school year; or
(b) If the administrator does not hold a license to teach:
(1) Personally observe a classroom for at least one-half of a regularly scheduled full instructional day in each school year; or
(2) Otherwise participate in activities with pupils in the classroom in each school year, including, without limitation, serving as a guest speaker in the classroom, reading to pupils in elementary school and participating in career day.
2. If the board of trustees of a school district adopts a policy pursuant to subsection 1, a district-level administrator may choose a school within the school district at which the administrator will carry out the provisions of this section.
3. If the board of trustees of a school district adopts a policy pursuant to subsection 1, an administrator who provides instruction pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 must be assigned as a substitute teacher for the full instructional day in which the administrator carries out the provisions of this section.
4. The provisions of this section do not apply to administrators who are employed by a school district to provide administrative service at the school level, including, without limitation, a principal or vice principal.
5. As used in this section, "core academic subject" means the core academic subjects designated pursuant to NRS 389.018.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 2452; A 2011, 3500)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.240 - Teachers: Keeping register of pupils.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each teacher in the public schools shall keep a true, full and correct register of all pupils attending such school as required by the board of trustees of the school district in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
2. Each teacher in a charter school shall keep a record of the enrollment of pupils in the charter school in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
[346:32:1956]—(NRS A 1971, 549; 1979, 1605; 1999, 3314)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.260 - Teachers: Enforcement of courses of study, textbooks and regulations; exception for charter schools.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each teacher in the public schools shall enforce the course of study as prescribed by law, the use of legally authorized textbooks, and the rules and regulations prescribed for teachers and schools.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not prohibit a charter school from:
(a) Offering courses of study other than the courses of study prescribed by law;
(b) Using textbooks other than the textbooks that are legally authorized for use in the school district; or
(c) Enforcing rules and regulations other than the rules and regulations prescribed.
[348:32:1956]—(NRS A 1997, 1873)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.271 - School district to provide for legal defense of employee charged with certain crimes committed within scope of employment; exceptions.

1. If a person who is or was employed by a school district is charged by criminal complaint with assault, battery or a similar crime as a result of the employee’s actions in attempting to maintain a safe or peaceful school environment, the school district shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the legal defense of the employee in that case. The school district shall not require a waiver of the attorney-client privilege as a condition of providing the defense.
2. In any case in which the school district is required to provide for an employee’s legal defense pursuant to subsection 1, the court shall include in its judgment a finding as to whether the conduct of the defendant which was alleged to be criminal was within the scope of his or her employment and whether the conduct was malicious or wanton.
3. If the court finds that the conduct of the defendant was not within the scope of his or her employment or was wanton or malicious, the employee or former employee is liable to the school district for the amount expended by the school district for his or her defense.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1991)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.274 - Policy prescribing duties, roles and responsibilities of school counselors; limitation on time school counselors required to assist with test administration.

The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy that sets forth the duties, roles and responsibilities of persons who are licensed pursuant to this chapter and employed as school counselors. The policy must:
1. Be designed to ensure that school counselors are allotted sufficient time in each school year to carry out the duties relating to counseling, including, without limitation, assisting pupils with academic planning; and
2. Limit the amount of time that school counselors are required to assist with test administration and test coordination at a public school.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 2179)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.282 - Jurisdiction of school police officers; law enforcement agency to respond to request for assistance by school district which does not have school police according to agency protocol.

1. The jurisdiction of each school police officer of a school district extends to all school property, buildings and facilities within the school district and, if the board of trustees has entered into a contract with a charter school for the provision of school police officers pursuant to NRS 388A.384, all property, buildings and facilities in which the charter school is located, for the purpose of:
(a) Protecting school district personnel, pupils, or real or personal property; or
(b) Cooperating with local law enforcement agencies in matters relating to personnel, pupils or real or personal property of the school district.
2. In addition to the jurisdiction set forth in subsection 1, a school police officer of a school district has jurisdiction:
(a) Beyond the school property, buildings and facilities:
(1) When in hot pursuit of a person believed to have committed a crime; or
(2) While investigating matters that originated within the jurisdiction of the school police officer relating to personnel, pupils or real or personal property of the school district;
(b) At activities or events sponsored by the school district that are in a location other than the school property, buildings or facilities within the school district; and
(c) On the streets that are adjacent to the school property, buildings and facilities within the school district to enforce violations of traffic laws and ordinances.
3. A law enforcement agency that is contacted for assistance by a public school or private school which does not have school police shall respond according to the protocol of the law enforcement agency established for responding to calls for assistance from the general public.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 2078; A 1979, 1606; 1989, 630; 2007, 927, 1921; 2015, 1739; 2019, 3248)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 391.275)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.283 - Policy for procedures to be followed by peace officers in arresting pupil on school grounds during school hours.

1. The board of trustees of each school district, in conjunction with the school police officers of the school district, if any, and the local law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over the school district, shall establish a policy for the procedures which must be followed by a peace officer in arresting a pupil on school grounds during school hours. The policy must include the circumstances under which the chief administrative officer of a school must be notified of the arrest of a pupil.
2. Each law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over any part of a school district shall adopt the policy which is established pursuant to subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 853)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 392.855)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.291 - Supervision by chief nurse required; qualifications for employment as school nurse; designation of school employees authorized to administer auto-injectable epinephrine or opioid antagonist.

1. The provision of nursing services in a school district by school nurses and other qualified personnel must be under the direction and supervision of a chief nurse who is a registered nurse as provided in NRS 632.240 and who:
(a) Holds an endorsement to serve as a school nurse issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission; or
(b) Is employed by a state, county, city or district health department and provides nursing services to the school district in the course of that employment.
2. A school district shall not employ a person to serve as a school nurse unless the person holds an endorsement to serve as a school nurse issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission.
3. The chief nurse shall ensure that each school nurse:
(a) Coordinates with the principal of each school to designate:
(1) Employees of the school who are authorized to administer auto-injectable epinephrine; and
(2) If the school has obtained an order for an opioid antagonist pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 386.870, at least two employees of the school who are authorized to administer the opioid antagonist.
(b) Provides the employees so designated with training concerning the proper storage and administration of auto-injectable epinephrine or opioid antagonists, as applicable.
4. As used in this section, "opioid antagonist" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 453C.040.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1697; A 2001, 540; 2013, 1225; 2021, 426)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 391 - Personnel › NRS 391.292 - Duties of school nurse.

A school nurse shall, for each school at which he or she is responsible for providing nursing services:
1. Ensure that each pupil enrolled in the school has been immunized in accordance with, is exempt from or has otherwise complied with, the requirements set forth in NRS 392.435 to 392.446, inclusive.
2. Assess and evaluate the general health and physical development of the pupils enrolled in the school to identify those pupils who have physical or mental conditions that impede their ability to learn.
3. Report the results of an evaluation conducted pursuant to subsection 2 to:
(a) A parent or guardian of the pupil;
(b) Each administrator and teacher directly involved with the education of the pupil; and
(c) Other professional personnel within the school district who need the information to assist the pupil with the pupil’s health or education.
4. Design and carry out a plan of nursing care for a pupil with special needs which incorporates any plan specified by the pupil’s physician or provider of health care, as defined in NRS 629.031, and which is approved by the pupil’s parent or guardian. The nursing services provided pursuant to a plan of nursing care must be performed in compliance with chapter 632 of NRS.
5. When appropriate, refer a pupil and the pupil’s parent or guardian to other sources in the community to obtain services necessary for the health of the pupil.
6. Interpret medical and nursing information that relates to a pupil’s individual educational plan or individualized accommodation plan and make recommendations to:
(a) Professional personnel directly involved with that pupil; and
(b) The parents or guardian of that pupil.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1697; A 2001, 540)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 391.208)