Plan to improve literacy of pupils enrolled in elementary school: Contents; submission to Department for approval; regulations; Department to award grant to school district which administers certain assessment to assess proficiency in reading other than statewide assessment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 388.157
in effect1. The board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school shall prepare a plan to improve the literacy of pupils enrolled in an elementary school. Such a plan must include, without limitation:
(a) A program to provide intervention services and intensive instruction to pupils who have been identified as deficient in the subject area of reading to ensure that those pupils achieve adequate proficiency in the requisite reading skills and reading comprehension skills necessary to perform at a level determined by a statewide assessment to be within a level determined by the State Board, or an equivalent level determined by an assessment administered by the board of trustees of a school district or governing body of a charter school, for a pupil enrolled in the same grade in which the pupil is enrolled. Such a program must include, without limitation, regularly scheduled reading sessions in small groups and specific instruction designed to target any area of reading in which the pupil demonstrates a deficiency, including, without limitation, phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding skills, reading fluency and vocabulary and reading comprehension strategies;
(b) Procedures for assessing a pupils proficiency in the subject area of reading using valid and reliable standards-based assessments during each grade level of the elementary school at which the pupil is enrolled as determined necessary;
(c) A program to improve the proficiency in reading of pupils who are English learners; and
(d) Procedures for facilitating collaboration between licensed teachers designated as literacy specialists and classroom teachers.
2. The board of trustees of each school district or the governing body of a charter school, as applicable, shall:
(a) Submit its plan to the Department for approval on or before the date prescribed by the Department on a form prescribed by the Department; and
(b) Make such revisions to the plan as the Department determines are necessary.
3. The Department:
(a) Shall adopt regulations that prescribe procedures for assessing the development across early learning domains of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten within the first 45 days of school in a school year.
(b) May adopt regulations prescribing the manner by which the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of a charter school are required to collect and report the results of any assessment used by the school district or charter school, as applicable, to assess a pupils proficiency in the subject area of reading.
(c) May prescribe one or more valid and reliable standards-based statewide assessments that must be used in a school district or charter school to assess a pupils proficiency in the subject area of reading if the board of trustees of the school district or the governing body of the charter school, as applicable, fails to include such an assessment in the plan submitted pursuant to subsection 1.
4. If the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school administers an assessment to assess the proficiency of a pupil in the subject of reading other than a statewide assessment prescribed pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 3 and the Department has established a method to determine an equivalent score to a score on a statewide assessment for such an assessment, the Department shall award a grant to the school district or local educational agency for the charter school in an amount equal to the savings to the Department, on a proportional basis, for not administering the statewide assessment to pupils in the school district or charter school, as applicable. A grant to a school district or local educational agency awarded pursuant to this subsection must not exceed, on a per pupil basis, the cost of a statewide assessment prescribed pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 3.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-388.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026