NAC387.140. Short school day in session.

     1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may authorize a school district to conduct short school days in session on a continuing basis for up to 1 school year when facilities or conditions so require. To obtain the permission of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a school district must submit an application in advance, describing the circumstances which necessitate short school days in session as well as its plans to alleviate those circumstances. The application must include an estimation of the time needed to restore regular school days in session.

     2. The board of trustees of a school district may, for each school year:

     (a) Schedule up to 5 short school days in session per school; or

     (b) Delegate, in writing, to the superintendent of schools of the school district the authority to schedule the 5 short school days in session permitted pursuant to paragraph (a).

Ê Upon written request from the board of trustees of a school district, the Superintendent of Public Instruction may authorize the scheduling of more than 5 short school days in session when special circumstances so require.

     3. The board of trustees of a school district may submit to the Department a district-wide policy for the approval of short school days in session. The policy must:

     (a) Include a process for determining approval of a short school day in session that is requested by a school within the school district;

     (b) Include a process for recording a short school day in session; and

     (c) Be applied consistently throughout the school district.

Ê Upon review, the Department may make revisions to the policy. If a policy has been approved by the Department for a school district, the school district may approve a short school day in session for a school in accordance with the policy.

     4. Upon the written approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a school district may schedule short school days in session on a continuing basis for pupils who are receiving instruction in an alternative program or receiving instruction in a detention home. If a plan for an alternative program is approved pursuant to NRS 388.537 and the plan contains a schedule which includes short school days in session, the approved plan shall be deemed written approval by the Superintendent for purposes of this subsection.

     [Dep’t of Education, Pupil Accounting Reg., eff. 12-15-77]—(NAC A by Bd. of Education, 9-6-83; 6-23-86; 11-14-94; R033-99, 11-3-99; R137-05, 10-31-2005; R134-07, 6-17-2008)