[Rev. 5/25/2022 11:14:37 AM]

 

[NAC-388E Revised Date: 12-18]

CHAPTER 388E - PROGRAM OF SCHOOL CHOICE FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE

388E.100        Application to participate in Program: Contents; required action of board of trustees of school district upon receipt of notification.

 

 

 

      NAC 388E.100  Application to participate in Program: Contents; required action of board of trustees of school district upon receipt of notification. (NRS 388E.100)

     1.  The legal guardian or custodian of a child seeking to have the child participate in the Program must submit to the Department an application in the manner and on a form prescribed by the Department. The application must include, without limitation:

     (a) The name, age and current grade level, if applicable, of the child;

     (b) An indication of whether the child has an individualized education program;

     (c) A statement affirming that the child is eligible to participate in the Program pursuant to NRS 388E.110;

     (d) A statement of the reasons for requesting that the child participate in the Program, including, without limitation, how participation in the Program would be in the best interests of the child; and

     (e) The information required by subsection 2 of NRS 388E.110.

     2.  Upon receipt of notification of an application on behalf of a child to participate in the Program from the Department pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 388E.110:

     (a) The board of trustees, or its designee, of the school district in which the child resides; and

     (b) If the legal guardian or custodian of the child wishes to enroll the child in a public school in a school district other than the school district in which the child resides, the board of trustees, or its designee, of the school district in which the legal guardian or custodian of the child wishes to enroll the child,

Ê shall complete and return to the Department within 10 days a form prescribed by the Department addressing whether approval or denial of the application to participate in the Program would be in the best interests of the child.

     3.  As used in this section, “individualized education program” has the meaning ascribed to it in 20 U.S.C. § 1414(d)(1)(A).

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Education by R037-14, eff. 6-23-2014)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 392B.100)