2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 391 - Personnel
NRS 391.100 - Employment of personnel by trustees; certain teachers and paraprofessionals required to possess qualifications prescribed by federal law. [Parts of this section were replaced in revision in 2015 by NRS 391.102
1. The board of trustees of a school district may employ a superintendent of schools, teachers and all other necessary employees.
2. A person who is initially hired by the board of trustees of a school district on or after January 8, 2002, to teach in a program supported with money from Title I must possess the qualifications required by 20 U.S.C. § 6319(a). For the purposes of this subsection, a person is not “initially hired” if he or she has been employed as a teacher by another school district or charter school in this State without an interruption in employment before the date of hire by the person’s current employer.
3. A person who is employed as a teacher, regardless of the date of hire, must possess, on or before July 1, 2006, the qualifications required by 20 U.S.C. § 6319(a) if the person teaches:
(a) English language arts;
(b) Mathematics;
(c) Science;
(d) A foreign or world language;
(e) Civics or government;
(f) Economics;
(g) Geography;
(h) History; or
(i) The arts.
4. The board of trustees of a school district:
(a) May employ teacher aides and other auxiliary, nonprofessional personnel to assist licensed personnel in the instruction or supervision of children, either in the classroom or at any other place in the school or on the grounds thereof. A person who is initially hired as a paraprofessional by a school district on or after January 8, 2002, to work in a program supported with Title I money must possess the qualifications required by 20 U.S.C. § 6319(c). A person who is employed as a paraprofessional by a school district, regardless of the date of hire, to work in a program supported with Title I money must possess, on or before January 8, 2006, the qualifications required by 20 U.S.C. § 6319(c). For the purposes of this paragraph, a person is not “initially hired” if he or she has been employed as a paraprofessional by another school district or charter school in this State without an interruption in employment before the date of hire by the person’s current employer.
(b) Shall establish policies governing the duties and performance of teacher aides.
[332:32:1956] — (NRS A 1967, 450; 1971, 175; 1975, 614; 1979, 871, 1603; 1985, 287; 1987, 1000, 1481; 1989, 630; 1993, 2531; 1995, 1910; 1999, 3462; 2001, 2482; 2003, 2848; 2003, 19th Special Session, 72; 2015, 1737, 2100, 3827)
