1.  The principal of each public school which, based upon the most recent annual report of the statewide system of accountability for public schools, was rated in the lowest 30 percent of public schools in this State in the achievement of pupils who are English learners, shall adopt, submit to the Department and publish on an Internet website maintained by the school a corrective action plan which must include, without limitation:

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(a) Identification of the root causes of the low levels of achievement among pupils who are English learners;

(b) Plans to address those root causes;

(c) Attainable quantitative goals for improvement in the achievement of pupils who are English learners and timelines for meeting those goals;

(d) Identification of specific actions to improve the achievement of pupils who are English learners, plans to monitor those actions and identification of persons responsible for taking and monitoring those actions; and

(e) Plans to provide professional development designed to address the needs of pupils who are English learners to administrators, teachers and other educational staff.

2.  The Department shall assist principals who are required by subsection 1 to adopt a corrective action plan with the development of the plan.

3.  A corrective action plan adopted pursuant to subsection 1 may be incorporated into any other relevant corrective action plan adopted by the school.

4.  A public high school that has adopted a corrective action plan pursuant to subsection 1 shall notify the parent or guardian of each pupil receiving services for English learners at the high school, in English and any language that is the primary language of at least 10 percent of the English learners enrolled in the high school, that the school has adopted a corrective action plan. The notice must include, without limitation:

(a) A list of each high school in the same school district as the school that has not adopted a corrective action plan;

(b) A statement that the parent or guardian may request that the pupil be transferred to a public high school that has not adopted a corrective action plan; and

(c) A statement of the provisions of subsection 5.

5.  The board of trustees of a school district shall allow a pupil who is an English learner and attends a school that has adopted a corrective action plan to enroll in a public school outside the zone of attendance in which the pupil resides if:

(a) The pupil wishes to transfer because the school meets the criteria prescribed in subsection 1 or because of the adoption of the corrective action plan; and

(b) The public school in which the pupil wishes to enroll has adequate capacity to enroll the pupil after enrolling all pupils who reside in the zone of attendance of the school and wish to attend the school.

6.  On or before July 1 of each year, the Department shall submit to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education a report that includes:

(a) The number of public schools in this State that have adopted a corrective action plan pursuant to subsection 1;

(b) A description of any progress or lack of progress in closing gaps in achievement between pupils who are English learners and pupils who are proficient in English; and

(c) An evaluation of the success of the corrective action plans.

7.  As used in this section, ‘zone of attendance’ means the zone established by the board of trustees of a school district pursuant to NRS 388.040 to designate which school within the district a pupil must attend.