NAC387.283. Pupil placed in detention home or alternative program.

     1. Each school district shall submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in advance, a written proposal of its procedures to be used for the reporting of enrollment and attendance with respect to a pupil placed in a detention home or alternative program in the district.

     2. The procedures must describe in detail:

     (a) The method by which the school district determines whether the pupil is reported as enrolled in and attending a regular school or a program of instruction in a detention home or alternative program;

     (b) The means by which the district ensures that a pupil in a detention home or alternative program is not included in the count of enrollment and attendance of both a regular school and a program of instruction in a detention home or alternative program;

     (c) How the school district will account for a pupil who is receiving instruction in a detention home or alternative program located within the district, but who is a resident of another school district; and

     (d) How the school district will account for a pupil who is a resident of the school district and for whom the school district is providing for the pupil to receive instruction in a detention home or alternative program located in another school district.

     3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may approve or reject the submitted procedures. If the Superintendent rejects the procedures, the Superintendent shall prescribe the method of reporting for that school district for that school year. The approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is effective until the school district revises the procedures.

     4. Each school district shall submit to the Department, in the manner prescribed by the Department, a monthly report of enrollment and attendance for all pupils enrolled in a program of instruction in a detention home or alternative program.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Education, eff. 9-6-83; A 6-23-86; R033-99, 11-3-99)