SB460: Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-16)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing plans to improve academic achievement; revising provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district; providing for the impaneling of a School District Oversight Board; revising provisions governing boards of trustees of certain school districts; revising provisions governing the Commission on School Funding; revising provisions governing the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account; establishing required ratios of teachers to administrators; revising provisions governing membership of the State Public Charter School Authority; revising provisions governing the formation of charter schools, the amendment of charter contracts and the employment of teachers by charter schools; revising provisions governing the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; creating the Commission on Recruitment and Retention; revising provisions relating to the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; revising provisions governing background investigations of applicants for certain licenses; establishing requirements governing the hiring of a superintendent of schools; revising provisions governing certain evaluations; creating a salary incentive program for teachers and administrators; establishing certain requirements for the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct a performance audit; creating certain accounts and programs concerning teacher apprenticeships; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.