Nevada Revised Statutes 388G.500 – Legislative findings and declaration
1. The Legislature hereby finds that in large school districts:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 388G.500
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Local school precinct: has the meaning ascribed to it in Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
- Public schools: means all kindergartens and elementary schools, junior high schools and middle schools, high schools, charter schools and any other schools, classes and educational programs which receive their support through public taxation and, except for charter schools, whose textbooks and courses of study are under the control of the State Board. See Nevada Revised Statutes 385.007
(a) Because of their significantly larger enrollment of pupils, greater number of local school precincts and more expansive and extensive scope of operations, large school districts are prone to develop large, complex and potentially inefficient, cumbersome and unresponsive bureaucracies that tend to become too dependent upon a centralized operational model where most decision-making is made by central services.
(b) Under such a centralized operational model in large school districts, the operational structure and culture may result in an entrenched and inflexible operational paradigm where decisions are made by central services without regular, consistent or adequate examination, exploration and consideration of the particularized, specialized or localized circumstances, needs and concerns of each local school precinct.
(c) When more decision-making is transferred from central services in large school districts to the site-based administrators, teachers and other staff and the parents and legal guardians of pupils in each local school precinct, the State’s system of public schools is better structured to educate efficiently, effectively and successfully the diverse and varied populations of pupils within large school districts because a site-based operational model encourages decision-making that is more innovative, proactive and responsive to the particularized, specialized or localized circumstances, needs and concerns of each local school precinct.
(d) To promote, achieve and advance the educational policies and objectives of transitioning and restructuring large school districts from a centralized operational model to a more decentralized and autonomous site-based operational model, it is necessary and essential to transfer and redirect more funding from the control of central services to the control of the site-based administrators, teachers and other staff and the parents and legal guardians of pupils in each local school precinct and ensure that more funding follows pupils with increased or specialized needs or abilities to each local school precinct.
2. The Legislature hereby declares that it is in the best interests of this State, beneficial to the public’s welfare and necessary and essential to the efficient, effective and successful operation of the State’s system of public schools to implement and carry out the provisions of NRS 388G.500 to 388G.810, inclusive, in large school districts for the purposes of promoting, achieving and advancing the educational policies and objectives of this State.