Senate Bill No. 34–Committee on Human
Resources and Facilities

 

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AN ACT relating to pupils; clarifying that a pupil may be retained more than once in the same grade under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1.  NRS 392.125 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    392.125  1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4,

before any pupil enrolled in a public school may be retained in the

same grade rather than promoted to the next higher grade for the

succeeding school year, the pupil’s teacher and principal must make

a reasonable effort to arrange a meeting and to meet with his parents

or guardian to discuss the reasons and circumstances.

    2.  The teacher and the principal in joint agreement have the

final authority to retain a pupil in the same grade for the succeeding

school year.

    3.  [No] Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of NRS

392.033 for the promotion of a pupil to high school, no pupil may

be retained more than one time in the same grade.

    4.  This section does not apply to the academic retention of

pupils who are enrolled in a charter school.

    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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