1. The State Board shall select a college and career readiness assessment for administration to pupils who are enrolled in grade 11 in public high schools.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a pupil must take the college and career readiness assessment to receive a standard high school diploma. A pupil with a disability may, in accordance with his or her individualized education program, be exempt from the requirement to take the college and career readiness assessment.
3. The results of a pupil on the college and career readiness assessment:
(a) Must not be used in the determination of whether the pupil satisfies the requirements for receipt of standard high school diploma.
(b) May be used in the determination of whether the pupil satisfies the requirements for receipt of a college and career ready high school diploma.
4. The assessment selected pursuant to subsection 1 must be:
(a) Administered at the same time during the school year by the board of trustees of each school district to pupils enrolled in grade 11 in all public high schools of the school district and by the governing body of each charter school that enrolls pupils in grade 11, as prescribed by the State Board, and in accordance with uniform procedures adopted by the State Board. The Department shall monitor the compliance of the school districts and individual schools with the uniform procedures and report to the State Board any instance of noncompliance.
(b) Administered in accordance with the plan adopted by the Department pursuant to NRS 390.270 and with the plan adopted by the board of trustees of the school district in which the assessment is administered pursuant to NRS 390.275. The Department shall monitor the compliance of the school districts and individual schools with:
(1) The plan adopted by the Department; and
(2) The plan adopted by the board of trustees of the applicable school district, to the extent that the plan adopted by the board of trustees of the school district is consistent with the plan adopted by the Department,
and shall report to the State Board any instance of noncompliance.
5. The assessment selected pursuant to subsection 1 must:
(a) Be used to provide data and information to each pupil who takes the assessment in a manner that allows the pupil to review the areas of his or her academic strengths and weaknesses, including, without limitation, areas where additional work in the subject areas tested on the assessment is necessary to prepare for college and career success without the need for remediation; and
(b) Allow teachers and other educational personnel to use the results of a pupil on the assessment to provide appropriate interventions for the pupil to prepare for college and career success.
6. The Department shall ensure the availability of authorized supports to pupils who are English learners for the assessment selected pursuant to subsection 1.
7. The State Board shall adopt regulations prescribing the manner in which the results of a college and career readiness assessment selected pursuant to subsection 1 must be used by a school district or charter school that operates as a high school to inform the instruction provided to pupils enrolled in grade 12, including, without limitation, to determine whether to provide remediation in areas of academic weakness and acceleration in areas of academic strength.
8. The State Board may work in consultation with the boards of trustees of school districts and, if a charter school enrolls pupils at a high school grade level, the governing body of the charter school to develop and implement appropriate plans of remediation for pupils based upon the results of the pupils on the assessment.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 3268; A 2017, 3253; 2019, 4358) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 389.807)