NRS389.616. Adoption and enforcement of plan for test security by Department; contents of plan; annual submission of plan to State Board and Legislative Committee on Education.

      1.  The Department shall, by regulation or otherwise, adopt and enforce a plan setting forth procedures to ensure the security of examinations that are administered to pupils pursuant to NRS 389.550 and 389.805 and the college and career readiness assessment administered pursuant to NRS 389.807.

      2.  A plan adopted pursuant to subsection 1 must include, without limitation:

      (a) Procedures pursuant to which pupils, school officials and other persons may, and are encouraged to, report irregularities in testing administration and testing security.

      (b) Procedures necessary to ensure the security of test materials and the consistency of testing administration.

      (c) Procedures that specifically set forth the action that must be taken in response to a report of an irregularity in testing administration or testing security and the actions that must be taken during an investigation of such an irregularity. For each action that is required, the procedures must identify:

             (1) By category, the employees of the school district, charter school or Department, or any combination thereof, who are responsible for taking the action; and

             (2) Whether the school district, charter school or Department, or any combination thereof, is responsible for ensuring that the action is carried out successfully.

      (d) Objective criteria that set forth the conditions under which a school, including, without limitation, a charter school or a school district, or both, is required to file a plan for corrective action in response to an irregularity in testing administration or testing security for the purposes of NRS 389.636.

      3.  A copy of the plan adopted pursuant to this section and the procedures set forth therein must be submitted on or before September 1 of each year to:

      (a) The State Board; and

      (b) The Legislative Committee on Education, created pursuant to NRS 218E.605.

      (Added to NRS by 2001, 1197; A 2013, 3273)