Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 388A - Charter Schools › AMENDMENT, REVOCATION AND TERMINATION OF CHARTERS AND CHARTER CONTRACTS; CLOSURE › Additional Requirements for Charter Schools Sponsored by the State Public Charter School Authority › Section 388A.400 - Request to amend charter contract: Submission; person or entity to whom certain requests to be submitted; when restated application to form charter school required; publication; requirements and considerations for approval; review of decision; duties of charter school upon approval

Current through June 11, 2024
1. A charter school sponsored by the State
				Public Charter School Authority that wishes to amend the material terms of its
				charter contract pursuant to
				NRS
				388A.276 shall submit a request to amend its
				charter contract to the State Public Charter School Authority or the Executive
				Director, as applicable, for approval pursuant to this section. Except as
				otherwise provided in this section, such a request must be submitted to the
				State Public Charter School Authority or the Executive Director on or after
				April 1 and on or before April 15 or on or after October 1 and on or before
				October 15 of each year. A charter school must submit a written notice of
				intent to submit a request to amend its charter contract to the State Public
				Charter School Authority or the Executive Director not less than 45 days before
				submitting the request. The State Public Charter School Authority or the
				Executive Director may, upon request and for good cause shown, accept a request
				to amend a charter contract at any time.
2. A request to amend the terms of a charter
				contract relating to:
(a) The districts
				specified in the charter contract;
(b) The maximum enrollment of the charter
				school;
(c) The grades served by
				the charter school;
(d) A
				contractual relationship with an educational management organization which
				provides or plans to provide substantially all the educational services offered
				by the charter school;
(e) The
				acquisition and occupancy of a new or additional facility which the State
				Public Charter School Authority determines has the effect of increasing
				enrollment at the charter school;
(f) Relocation to a new facility which the
				State Public Charter School Authority determines does not have the effect of
				increasing enrollment at the charter school;
(g) The conversion of the charter school from
				a single-campus school to a multi-campus school or from a multi-campus school
				to a single-campus school;
(h) A
				consolidation of the charter contract for one or more charter
				schools;
(i) A change to the
				mission statement and admissions policy of the charter school which would
				change the population served by the charter school from all pupils to the
				pupils specified in paragraph (a) of subsection 3 of
				NRS
				385A.740;
(j) A change to the mission statement and
				admissions policy of the charter school which would change the population
				served by the school from the pupils specified in paragraph (a) of subsection 3
				of
				NRS
				385A.740 to all pupils;
(k) A change to the mission statement of the
				charter school not described in paragraph (i) or (j); or
(l) A change in the educational programs,
				curriculum models, methods of instructional delivery, including, without
				limitation, distance education, blended or other programs or designs for the
				whole charter school which is inconsistent with those specified in the charter
				contract, as applicable, including, without limitation:
(1) A change from a virtual or cyber school
				model to a blended model or classroom-based instructional model;
(2) A change from a blended model to a
				virtual or cyber school model or classroom-based instructional model;
				or
(3) A change from a
				classroom-based instructional model to a virtual or cyber school model or
				blended model, must be submitted to the State Public Charter School Authority
				for approval on a form prescribed by the Executive Director.