Nevada Ed-Watch: State Board of Education 1/8/25

Consejo de Educación del Estado de Nevada

¿Qué es el Consejo Estatal de Educación y de qué es responsable? El Consejo de Educación del Estado de Nevada adopta reglamentos basados en las leyes de Nevada, que se transmiten a los distritos escolares de Nevada para su aplicación. La Junta tiene 11 miembros en total (7 nombrados y 4 elegidos públicamente).

How often does the State Board meet? The Nevada State Board of Education meets once per month on Wednesdays at 9:00 AM. Click here to see the 2024 meeting materials.

¿Pueden los miembros de la comunidad participar en las reuniones del Consejo Estatal? Se proporciona un tiempo para comentarios públicos al comienzo (para los puntos de la agenda) y al final (sobre cualquier asunto) de cada reunión de la Junta. Los miembros del público pueden proporcionar comentarios públicos por escrito a través del correo electrónico; los comentarios públicos se aceptarán a través del correo electrónico durante toda la reunión y se compartirán con la Junta Estatal de Educación durante los períodos de comentarios públicos. Los comentarios del público pueden enviarse por correo electrónico a NVBoardED@doe.nv.gov.

Haga clic aquí para consultar la lista de todos los miembros del Consejo Estatal.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Reunión del Consejo de Educación del Estado de Nevada

Haga clic aquí para consultar el orden del día de la reunión ordinaria del SBOE.

Haga clic aquí para ver la reproducción de la reunión.

¿Qué ocurrió en la reunión ordinaria?

Comentario público nº 1

Se escucharon comentarios del público sobre los siguientes temas: 

• At-risk funding model prioritization
• CCSD reorganization compliance and accountability
• Education priorities for the upcoming legislative session, including per pupil funding and class size reductions
• Concerns regarding privacy relating to the teacher data dashboard

Vice President’s Report

Entre lo más destacado:

• Board Member Updates: The curriculum subcommittee will resume in 2025. The Innovation and Excellence committee has a final set of recommendations that will be sent to the Legislature. Several members attended the Nevada Association of School Boards conference. Student applications for the student representative to the State Board of Education are open and due by February 14, 2025.
• Nevada System of Higher Education Updates: The inaugural Nevada FAFSA Challenge has launched and will run through March 31, 2025. UNLV announced the Sands Institute for Chinese Language and Culture. Three leadership searches are currently taking place, including one for a permanent Chancellor.

Informe del Superintendente

Entre lo más destacado:

• Introducing new staff members
• Preparing for the legislative session, as well as the State of the State Address
• Positive trends in the Smarter Balanced Assessment in both math and English Language Arts, as well as positive trends in attendance
• An increase of four and five-star schools throughout Nevada
• Nevada Superintendent of the Year was awarded to Pam Teel with the Lincoln County School District.

Board Elected Officers

The Board elected Dr. Katherine Dockweiler to serve as President, Tim Hughes to serve as Vice President, and Tamara Hudson to serve as Clerk of the State Board of Education.

Orden del día aprobado por consenso 

Puntos del orden del día de consentimiento incluidos:

• Approval of four private school relicensings

Board Approved Moving Forward with Revisions to the Statewide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils

Board members received an update on the Statewide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils, or STIP, to guide the Department in its next five years of addressing the needs of Nevada’s education system. It focuses on three critical areas: equitable access to high-quality PK-12 learning; strengthening educator development, retention, and recruitment; and strategic resource utilization. Each area, or target, has performance indicators to measure improvement. A community survey is in the process of being developed. Additional engagement and feedback will be obtained as part of next steps in moving the plan forward.

Review the draft document.

Board Received an Update on the Educator Data Dashboard

Representatives from Data Insight Partners provided an update on the development of the Educator Data Dashboard. The goals are to ensure it is simple for community members to use, robust for national researchers, and practical to inform strategy and monitor progress. The dashboard will feature staffing rates, retention rates, and comparison tools for districts and schools in drop-down menus. For class sizes, users can find class sizes at schools, with teachers, and compare across schools and districts. Users can download the files and access business rules from the dashboard, as well. The portal is due to debut by the end of January.

Revisa la presentación.

Board Received a Presentation on Clark County School District’s Reorganization Compliance Report under NRS 388G

The Board received a presentation on the Clark County School District’s reorganization compliance report, dated September 25, 2024. Items not in compliance include not providing reports to the State Board of Education regarding vacancies for which a substitute teacher was selected, and incomplete information collected from principals and bargaining groups related to election of SOT members, as well as incomplete participation reports.

Additional staff capacity has been brought on to address the SOT collection issues, and a subcommittee is addressing the report preparation issue.

Explore la presentación y el informe.

Board Received a Presentation of the iNVest Plan

The Board received a presentation on the Nevada Association of School Superintendents on the iNVest Plan, a strategic initiative focusing on funding, innovation, accountability, mental health investments, and secure learning environments, in advance of the 2025 Legislature.

Explore the iNVest Plan and the presentation.

Board Discussed the Nevada State Literacy Plan

The Board received a presentation on the Nevada State Literacy Plan, revised due to the existing plan being almost 10 years old, in addition to seeking additional collaboration with state and national partners. The Plan is a framework for implementing instructional practices for literacy, and guides statewide efforts to improve literacy. Key enhancements to the Plan include:

• Vertical alignment that provides a more comprehensive approach to literacy across grade levels
• Multi-Tiered Systems of Support to address literacy needs
• Updated scientific research
• Adolescent literacy to focus on complex demands of older students

An Executive Steering Committee, Advisory Council, and writers collaborated to draft the Plan. Following the timeline of the project, the Plan is due to be implemented statewide in Spring 2025.

Explore the Plan.

Board Received a Presentation on Dual Credit Programs from the Nevada System of Higher Education

The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) and the Nevada Department of Education have established a policy advisory group, Align and Shine Nevada, to develop proposed concurrent enrollment policies and procedures. A dual credit program is one in which a high school student is also enrolled in a college course, either through concurrent enrollment or dual enrollment.

The number of dual credit students has increased year-over-year, with 14,861 students in the 2022-23 NSHE academic year, an increase from the 12,389 students in the 2021-22 NSHE academic year. Dual credit students also have an increased rate of persistence to next fall in NSHE institutions, at a rate of 77.1% for dual enrollment students, over 66.5% for non-dual credit students. An increase is also observed in high school graduates that complete a credential or award within six years, with 56.7% of dual credit students, vs. 37.9% of non-dual credit students.

Align and Shine Nevada will develop a policy-based framework that provides a structure and additional clarity around the process, as well as promoting access, student success, and program completion.

Explore la presentación.

Board Received an Update on ESSER Funds

The Board heard an update on ESSER funds expended, including a summary on ESSER, GEER, and EANS funding. The total allocation to Nevada is $1,743,337,529, with $48,008,863 remaining, or 97.26% of the total amount expended.

The funds budgeted, expensed/spent, and remaining can be found on the Nevada Department of Education’s Federal Relief Tracker.

Explore la presentación.

Futuros puntos del orden del día

Entre las sugerencias para futuros puntos del orden del día se incluyen las puntuaciones de corte de Lectura para el Grado 3 y la planificación de eventos para ceremonias de reconocimiento y entrega de premios. Los objetivos incluyen:

• State Board of Education bylaws
• Absenteeism and truancy
• Developmental Delay, Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
• Reconvening the AB 469 Subcommittee
• Innovation Committee recommendations
• Structure and process to agendize items
• Naming prohibitions with schools
• STIP timeline and State Board involvement
• Possible endorsement of the iNVest platform
• Updates regarding the legislative session
• Literacy Plan implementation work
• At-risk funding
• Read by Grade 3 assessment
• State testing timeline

Comentario público nº 2

Se escucharon comentarios del público sobre los siguientes temas: 

• Special education teacher endorsements
• Nevada Reading Week

The next meeting of the State Board of Education will be held on Wednesday, March 12, at 9:00 a.m.