Nevada Ed-Watch: State Board of Education 11/04/26

Lupon ng Edukasyon ng Estado ng Nevada

Ano ang Lupon ng Edukasyon ng Estado at ano ang kanilang pananagutan? Ang Lupon ng Edukasyon ng Estado ng Nevada ay nagpapatibay ng mga regulasyon batay sa mga batas ng Nevada, na ipinapasa sa mga indibidwal na distrito ng paaralan sa Nevada upang ipatupad. Ang Lupon ay may 11 kabuuang (7 hinirang at 4 na inihalal sa publiko) na mga miyembro.

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 2026 meeting materials.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Lupon ng Edukasyon ng Estado ng Nevada 

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Board Approved Flexible Agenda

President's Report

Kasama ang mga highlight:

• Honoring Dr. Pamela M. Juniel for receiving the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) McKinney-Vento State Coordinator of the Year Award.
• A session at the Annual Sun Youth Forum, titled "School Days", discussed improving teacher workload, support, and compensation; forming strong mentorship relationships between teachers and students; and student engagement.
• Gratitude to members of the Department for helping the At-Risk Committee collect data and to the Deputy Attorney General for her input on metric creation methods.

Superintendent's Report

Kasama ang mga highlight:

• In a data breach of Navigate360, the technology vendor that operates SafeVoice Nevada, approximately 10% of tips containing personally identifiable information were compromised. The Nevada Department of Education and Nevada Department of Public Safety are implementing corrective actions including notifying the public of the data breach, pushing for increased accountability in Navigate360, and considering alternative vendors.
• Over the past year, the Superintendent's focus has been on creating conditions for lasting improvement by making the Nevada Department of Education more clear (establishing a shared direction), connected (building relationships and trust), capable (strengthening our capacity to deliver), and credible (following through on our commitment). The focus now is translating these conditions into stronger instruction, more effective support for schools, and better results for students.
• The Statewide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils (STIP) is currently in phase three. Phase one, completed in March 2026, created a clear strategic direction; phase two, completed in August 2026, created a draft STIP; and phase three will edit and finalize the STIP, with plans to be completed in March 2027. Based on feedback from educators, families, and members of the community, six areas of improvement were identified for edits to the STIP:
  1. Clarify the Nevada Department of Education's approach to school improvement and district support.
  2. Measure progress for students with the greatest academic needs.
  3. Address student well-being and educator working conditions.
  4. Expand access to high-quality instruction and postsecondary pathways for all students.
  5. Demonstrate near-term progress toward long-term goals.
  6. Align education investments, guidance, and accountability to drive improvement.

Board Approved Consent Agenda

Kasama sa mga item sa agenda ng pahintulot ang:

• October draft meeting minutes.
• An amendment to the bylaws of The Honors Academy of Literature, in alignment with Nevada Administrative Code 388A.340, specifying the timeline of when amendments to the bylaws take effect and when schools must be notified of any amendments to the bylaws.
• Approval of multiple sets of high school science instructional materials submitted by Clark County School District.

Review the consent agenda.

Board Received a Legislative Subcommittee Report

The Board heard an update from the Legislative Subcommittee regarding their work since the last Board Meeting, including a proposed process for Board legislative engagement, details on drafting supporting letters, presentations, and testimonies, and a recommendation to seek a presentation before the Nevada Assembly and Senate Education Committees. Highlights of the report included:

• The Board approved a draft letter to be sent to the Nevada Assembly and Senate Education Committees requesting a presentation before the committees.
• The proposed presentation includes information about the members of the State Board of Education, information about the new Legislative Subcommittee, the authority of the Board, goals and priorities, what the Board hopes to accomplish, and how the Board plans to engage and participate legislatively. A draft presentation will be shown to the Board in the December Regular Board Meeting.
• The Legislative Subcommittee discussed the possibility of funding a member to travel to Carson City for the Legislative Session.
• The Legislative Subcommittee discussed ways to evaluate and provide testimony using a testifying template with full board approval based on parameters established in a policy rubric.
• The Legislative Subcommittee discussed whether recommendations made to the Legislature may be focused on individual sections of bills or only on bills as a whole.

Board Received a Report on the Emergency Operation Plan Framework

The Board received a presentation on the Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Guide as the selected framework to guide and implement school emergency operation plans. Highlights of the presentation included:

• The REMS Guide is the framework chosen to satisfy Nevada Administrative Code 388, Regulation R082-25, which requires the Department of Education to identify or develop best practices for the management of crisis situations.
  • This framework is not a rigid plan, but rather a methodology used to create response plans for a variety of incidents.
• The REMS Guide was used to create the current Model Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) for the management of crisis situations as required by Nevada Revised Statutes 388.253.
• The most significant challenges and barriers to strong school-level EOP creation include availability of Office of Emergency Management personnel when those personnel are actively deployed to handle crises, communication difficulties between schools and District personnel, and access to emergency management materials and certified personnel in schools that are far from urban centers.
• Work to decrease resource gaps includes making training available to school safety teams, as well as the creation of a resource suite matched to legally required resources.

Galugarin ang presentasyon .

Board Received a Presentation on 2025-26 School Designations and an Update on the School Improvement Process and Future School Improvement Supports

The Board received a presentation on the annual update of the key initiatives led by the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) School Improvement Team (SIT) over the past year. Additionally, the Board will receive an update on school designations for additional support under federal law and an overview of the district's current standings, plans for school improvement consolidation, and school interventions to improve student outcomes Highlights of the presentation included:

• Following the Every Student Succeeds Act, schools are regularly evaluated to determine whether they are underperforming. If they are found to be underperforming, they may be designated for one of multiple levels of intervention.
  • As of September 2026, 35 schools (4% of schools) are designated as Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI), meaning the school has one or more consistently underperforming student subgroups across accountability indicators, as defined by the state.
  • 148 schools (17%) are designated as Additional Targeted Support and Improvement (ATSI), meaning the school has one or more student subgroups which are performing at or below the performance level of the "all students" group in the bottom 5% of Title I schools.
  • 52 schools (6%) are designated as Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI). This designation can be given for multiple reasons, including a school being in the lowest-performing 5% of all Title I schools statewide, high schools with a 4-year graduation rate at or below 67%, and ATSI schools that fail to meet state exit criteria after a state-determined period (typically 3-4 years).
  • 33 schools (3.8%) are designated as Comprehensive Support and Improvement-More Rigorous Intervention (CSI-MRI), meaning the school failed to exit CSI designation after 3 years.
• Future plans to help more schools succeed include refining designation criteria, improving diagnostic tools with a focus on improving daily instructional quality, streamlining planning requirements to allow more focus on student results, aligning Title I 1003(a) funding categories with Statewide Plan for the Improvement of Pupils priorities and identifying high-quality partner organizations, and strengthening the partner ecosystem by coordinating external technical assistance providers to ensure support tailored to school needs.

Galugarin ang presentasyon .

Board Heard an Update regarding the Instructional Materials Adoption Process

The Board received a presentation regarding proposed updates to the instructional materials and textbook adoption process across all subject areas for the State of Nevada. The presentation outlined the proposed direction to streamline adoption workflows, align evaluation criteria with academic content standards, and ensure consistent procedures across all educational programs. Highlights of the presentation included:

• A four-step process for selecting instructional materials was proposed.
  • In step 1, the Nevada Department of Education builds a list of materials that schools may use in their curriculum.
  • In step 2, districts choose materials from the list.
  • In step 3, districts may use specified tools to review materials not on the list created in step 1. If the Nevada Department of Education approves a district's review, the State Board may approve the materials.
  • In step 4, the Nevada Department of Education updates the list of materials yearly and revisits the process each time state content standards are reviewed.
• A proposed timeline involves creating and finalizing the process in the 2026-27 school year, launching the process in the 2027-28 school year, and continuing support for the process in the 2028-29 school year and later.

Galugarin ang presentasyon .

Pampublikong Komento #2

Narinig ang pampublikong komento sa mga sumusunod na paksa:

• The NAEHCY McKinney-Vento State Coordinator of the Year Award
• School curriculum

Mga Item sa Hinaharap na Agenda

Suggestions for future agenda items include a Legislative Subcommittee report and

reiterating protocols for addressing comments to the legislature when speaking as an individual and when speaking as a member of the Board.

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