NAC391.156. Period of exception; extension of period.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, an exception may be granted for not longer than 2 school years. An exception granted pursuant to a request to which an objection is made by the licensed teacher affected may be granted for not longer than 1 school year.

     2. If the request for an exception:

     (a) Relates to a course in the humanities, an elective course of study or a course that is supplemental to the basic curriculum prescribed by the Board; and

     (b) Is for a teacher who is assigned to teach outside his or her area of endorsement at a middle, junior high, secondary or combined school that has less than 300 pupils enrolled and is located at least 30 miles from a school where the subject is taught by persons who have received endorsements in that area,

Ê the Superintendent of Public Instruction may extend the exception for 2 years if the superintendent of the school district submits to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a plan by which the conditions that necessitated the request can be eliminated within the period of the extension.

     3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may grant an exception for longer than 2 school years to a teacher of a program of alternative education who teaches outside his or her area of endorsement.

     4. As used in this section:

     (a) A “combined school” means a school which has secondary school, middle school or junior high school, and elementary school pupils in attendance, or which mixes one grade level with another.

     (b) “Program of alternative education” has the meaning ascribed to it in subsection 5 of NAC 391.392.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education, 1-11-91, eff. 1-1-92; A by R093-97, 1-14-98; R099-03, 9-24-2003; R005-05, 10-31-2005)