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386–ASSEMBLYMEMBERS386 G(BDR OULDING34-828) ;ANDProposed Hby: UNT M ARCH 10, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to assessments administered to pupils to assess reading proficiency.
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Matter in (1) blue bold italics is new language in the original bill;
(2) variations of green bold underlining is language proposed to be added in this amendment;
(3) red strikethrough is deleted language in the original bill;
(4) purple double strikethrough is language proposed to be deleted in this amendment;
(5) orange double underlining is deleted language in the original bill proposed to be retained in this amendment.
CCP/JFD - Date:
4/19/2025 A.B.
No.
386—Revises provisions relating to assessments administered to pupils to assess reading proficiency.
(BDR 34-828) Page 1 of 4 *A_AB386_427* Assembly Amendment No.
427 to Assembly Bill No.
386 Page 3 ASSEMBLY B ILLNO .
386–[ASSEMBLYMEMBER ] ASSEMBLYMEMBERS G OULDING ;
AND H UNT M ARCH 10,2025 _______________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to assessments administered to pupils to assess reading proficiency.
(BDR 34-828) FISCAL NOTE:
authorizing[requiring the State Board of TrusteesEducation of the Washoe County School District to establishapprove andat administerleast atwo] pilotrevising programprovisions duringgoverning the 2025-2026assessments schoolwhich yearmay tobe useused an alternative assessment to assess the literacy of pupils enrolled in an elementary schoolschool; if the alternative assessment satisfies certain criteria;
requiringauthorizing the Department of Education to awardprescribe arequirements grantrelating to the Washoecollection Countyand Schoolreporting Districtof in an amount equal to the savingsresults toof thesuch Departmentassessments; for not administering the statewide assessment to pupils enrolled in the School District;
requiringauthorizing a report concerning the programDepartment to beprescribe submitted to the Departmentassessments andused theto Jointassess Interimliteracy Standingunder Committeecertain oncircumstances; Education;
Existing law requires the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school to prepare a plan to improve the literacy of pupils enrolled in an elementary school.during each grade level of elementary school, as is determined to be necessary, by usinging assessments that have been approved by the State Board of Education by regulation.
Such(NRS a388.157) planThis mustbill include[requires proceduresthe State Board to assessapprove by regulation at least two assessments which the proficiencyboard of trustees of a pupilschool district or the governing body of a charter school may administer to pupils to assess proficiency in readingreading.] duringremoves eachthe graderequirement levelthat ofsuch elementaryassessments school,be asapproved isby the State Board by regulation, thereby allowing the board of Educationtrustees byof regulation.a school district or the governing body of a charter school, as applicable, to include in the plan any valid and reliable standards-based assessment to assess proficiency in reading.
(NRS 388.157) This bill also authorizes thee Board of Trustees of the WashoeDepartment County School District to establish and administer a pilot program during the 2025-2026 school year to administer an assessment other than the statewide assessment to assess the proficiency of pupilsEducation into: reading if the State Board approves the assessment.
Under(1) thisadopt bill,regulations theprescribing Statehow Board is required to approve such an assessment if the assessmentresults isof aany valid and reliable - *AB386_R4* – 2 – standards-based assessment toused assessby proficiency in reading and the Department of Education has established a methodschool todistrict establishor ancharter equivalentschool score to a score on the Washoe County School District administers such an assessment to assess Trustees of proficiency in reading otherare thancollected theand statewidereported; assessment, the Department is required to award a grant to the School District in an amount equal to the savings to the Department for not administering the statewide assessment to pupils in the School District.
Finally,and this(2) billprescribe requires the Washoeassessments Countywhich Schoolmust Districtbe toused Educationin concerninga theschool pilotdistrict program.heor Jointcharter Interimschool Standingif Committeeno onassessment THEis PEOPLEincluded OFin THEthe STATEplan. OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Assembly Amendment No.
427 to Assembly Bill No.
386 Page 4 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
(DeletedNRS by388.157 amendment.)is Sec.hereby amended to read as follows:
388.157 1.
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 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 pupil’s proficiency in the subject area of reading using valid and reliable standards-based assessments [that have been approved by the State Board by regulation] 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.
(Deleted[The State Board shall approve by amendment.)regulation Sec.at least two valid and or the governing body of a charter school may choose from to assess a pupil’sistrict proficiency in the subject area of reading.
3.] 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.
1.[4.] The Department [shall] :
For(a) theShall 2025-2026adopt schoolregulations year,that theprescribe Boardprocedures of Trustees of the Washoe County School District may establish and administer a pilot program for theassessing administration of an assessment other than the statewidedevelopment assessmentacross toearly determine,learning fordomains the purposes of thea planpupil to improve the literacy of pupils enrolled in ankindergarten elementarywithin school prepared pursuant to NRS 388.157, whether pupils enrolled in the Washoefirst County45 Schooldays Districtof haveschool achieved adequate proficiency in the requisite reading skills and reading comprehension skills necessary to perform at a levelschool determinedyear. by the statewide assessment to be within a level determined by the State Board of Education.
2.(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 pupil’s proficiency in the subject area of reading.
Any(c) assessmentMay administeredprescribe byvalid and reliable standards-based assessments that must be used in a school district or charter school to assess a pupil’s proficiency in the Boardsubject area of Trusteesreading ofif the Washoeboard Countyof Schooltrustees Districtof pursuantthe toschool district or the pilotgoverning programbody establishedof andthe administeredcharter pursuantschool, toas subsectionapplicable, 1fails mustto beinclude approvedsuch byan assessment in the Stateplan Boardsubmitted ofpursuant Education.to subsection 1.
The State Board of Education shall approve any such assessment if:
(a) The assessment is a valid and reliable standards-based assessment to assess the proficiency of pupils in the subject area of reading;
and (b) The Department of Education has established for the assessment a method to determine an equivalent score to a score on a statewide assessment.
3.
If, pursuant to the pilot program established and administered pursuant to subsection 1, the Board of Trustees of the Washoe County School District administers an assessment to assess the proficiency of a pupil in the subject area of reading other than the statewide assessment:
(a) The Board of Trustees is not required to administer the statewide assessment for the purposes of the plan prepared pursuant to NRS 388.157;
and - *AB386_R4* – 3 – (b) The Department of Education shall award a grant to the Washoe County School District in an amount equal to the savings to the Department for not administering the statewide assessment to pupils enrolled in the Washoe County School District.
District shall provide a report to the Department of Education and the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education concerning the pilot program established and administered pursuant to subsection 1 that includes, without limitation:
(a) Information concerning the assessment administered pursuant to the pilot program;
(b) The method by which the assessment administered pursuant to the pilot program establishes a score that is equivalent to a score on the statewide assessment;
and (c) Information concerning the grant made to the School District by the Department pursuant to subsection 3.
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This[This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025,2025.] and(Deleted expires by limitationamendment.) on June 30, 2026.
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