2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 353B - College Savings Plans of Nevada and Education Savings Accounts
NRS 353B.910 - Participating entity required to ensure children take certain examinations; aggregation of examination results; annual survey.

1. Each participating entity that accepts payments for tuition and fees made from education savings accounts shall:

(a) Ensure that each child on whose behalf a grant of money has been deposited pursuant to NRS 353B.860 and who is receiving instruction from the participating entity takes:

(1) Any examinations in mathematics and English language arts required for pupils of the same grade pursuant to chapter 389 of NRS; or

(2) Norm-referenced achievement examinations in mathematics and English language arts each school year;

(b) Provide for value-added assessments of the results of the examinations described in paragraph (a); and

(c) Subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, provide the results of the examinations described in paragraph (a) to the Department of Education or an organization designated by the Department pursuant to subsection 4.

2. The Department of Education shall:

(a) Aggregate the examination results provided pursuant to subsection 1 according to the grade level, gender, race and family income level of each child whose examination results are provided; and

(b) Subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, make available on the Internet website of the Department:

(1) The aggregated results and any associated learning gains; and

(2) After 3 school years for which examination data has been collected, the graduation rates, as applicable, of children whose examination results are provided.

3. The State Treasurer shall administer an annual survey of parents who enter into or renew an agreement pursuant to NRS 353B.850. The survey must ask each parent to indicate the number of years the parent has entered into or renewed such an agreement and to express:

(a) The relative satisfaction of the parent with the grant program established pursuant to NRS 353B.700 to 353B.930, inclusive; and

(b) The opinions of the parent regarding any topics, items or issues that the State Treasurer determines may aid the State Treasurer in evaluating and improving the effectiveness of the grant program established pursuant to NRS 353B.700 to 353B.930, inclusive.

4. The Department of Education may arrange for a third-party organization to perform the duties of the Department prescribed by this section.

(Added to NRS by 2015, 1830)