1. A teacher may be suspended, dismissed or not reemployed and an administrator may be demoted, suspended, dismissed or not reemployed for the following reasons:
(a) Inefficiency;
(b) Immorality;
(c) Unprofessional conduct;
(d) Insubordination;
(e) Neglect of duty;
(f) Physical or mental incapacity;
(g) A justifiable decrease in the number of positions due to decreased enrollment or district reorganization;
(h) Conviction of a felony or of a crime involving moral turpitude;
(i) Inadequate performance;
(j) Evident unfitness for service;
(k) Failure to comply with such reasonable requirements as a board may prescribe;
(l) Failure to show normal improvement and evidence of professional training and growth;
(m) Advocating overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State of Nevada by force, violence or other unlawful means, or the advocating or teaching of communism with the intent to indoctrinate pupils to subscribe to communistic philosophy;
(n) Any cause which constitutes grounds for the revocation of a teacher’s license;
(o) Willful neglect or failure to observe and carry out the requirements of this title;
(p) Dishonesty;
(q) Intentional failure to observe and carry out the requirements of a plan to ensure the security of examinations and assessments adopted pursuant to NRS 390.270 or 390.275;
(r) An intentional violation of NRS 388.497 or 388.499;
(s) Knowingly and willfully failing to comply with the provisions of NRS 388.1351;
(t) Knowingly and willfully violating any provision of NRS 391.850 to 391.930, inclusive;
(u) Gross misconduct; or
(v) An intentional failure to report a violation of NRS 388.135 if the teacher or administrator witnessed the violation.
2. If a teacher or administrator is found, through an investigation of a testing irregularity, to have willfully breached the security or confidentiality of the questions and answers of the examinations that are administered pursuant to NRS 390.105 or the college and career readiness assessment administered pursuant to NRS 390.610, the board of trustees of a school district, governing body of a charter school or governing body of a university school for profoundly gifted pupils, as applicable, shall:
(a) Suspend, dismiss or fail to reemploy the teacher; or
(b) Demote, suspend, dismiss or fail to reemploy the administrator.
3. In determining whether the professional performance of a licensed employee is inadequate, consideration must be given to the regular and special evaluation reports prepared in accordance with the policy of the employing school district and to any written standards of performance which may have been adopted by the board.
4. As used in this section, "gross misconduct" includes any act or omission that is in wanton, willful, reckless or deliberate disregard of the interests of a school or school district or a pupil thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 968; A 1973, 791; 1987, 1004; 1999, 1434, 3241; 2001, 1211; 2011, 2246, 2285; 2013, 3281; 2015, 417, 1854; 2017, 3269, 3977)—(Substituted in revision in 2013 for NRS 391.312 and in 2015 for NRS 391.31297)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 391.005 - "Commission" defined.
NRS 391.008 - "Paraprofessional" defined.
NRS 391.0085 - "Statewide Central Registry" defined.
NRS 391.0088 - "Veteran" defined.
NRS 391.011 - Creation; membership.
NRS 391.013 - Limitation on terms of certain members.
NRS 391.027 - Approval or disapproval of Commission’s regulations by State Board of Education.
NRS 391.028 - Annual report concerning status of Commission’s regulations and work plan.
NRS 391.029 - Provision of personnel; location of offices.
NRS 391.031 - Kinds of licenses.
NRS 391.051 - License is revocable privilege.
NRS 391.053 - "Arrest" defined.
NRS 391.057 - Timely submission of information by school district or charter school.
NRS 391.070 - Employment of alien teacher through program of exchange permitted.
NRS 391.094 - State Board required to prescribe examination for certain paraprofessionals.
NRS 391.103 - "Unsupervised contact" defined.
NRS 391.1035 - "Volunteer" defined.
NRS 391.105 - Conditions under which volunteer not required to submit fingerprints.
NRS 391.115 - Consideration of military education, training or occupational experience.
NRS 391.135 - Determination of number of job vacancies; reporting.
NRS 391.145 - Involuntary transfer or reassignment of unlicensed employees.
NRS 391.162 - Determination of salaries: Increased salary for certain speech-language pathologists.
NRS 391.167 - Determination of salaries: Credit for previous teaching service.
NRS 391.169 - Determination of salaries: Credit for previous administrative service.
NRS 391.200 - Salaries of teachers are prior claims on school district fund.
NRS 391.2055 - Legislative declaration.
NRS 391.210 - Exercise of trustees’ authority in school by certain personnel.
NRS 391.240 - Teachers: Keeping register of pupils.
NRS 391.270 - Teachers: Holding pupils to account for conduct.
NRS 391.292 - Duties of school nurse.
NRS 391.293 - Duties, authority and supervision of school counselor.
NRS 391.294 - Authority and supervision of school psychologist.
NRS 391.296 - Authority and supervision of school social worker.
NRS 391.301 - "Employee" defined.
NRS 391.309 - Effect of provisions.
NRS 391.320 - Suspension or revocation of teacher’s license by State Board.
NRS 391.340 - Revocation or forfeiture for falsely reporting pupils’ attendance.
NRS 391.355 - Procedure for conduct of hearings.
NRS 391.365 - Reimbursement for cost of course work to receive endorsement.
NRS 391.369 - Account for Computer Education and Technology.
NRS 391.380 - Annuities or shares for employees: Purchase; conditions.
NRS 391.450 - "Council" defined.
NRS 391.475 - Electronic tool for providing documents concerning evaluations.
NRS 391.490 - "Task Force" defined.
NRS 391.494 - Qualifications of members; application for membership.
NRS 391.655 - Applicability of NRS 391.650 to 391.826, inclusive; exceptions.
NRS 391.720 - Procedures for transfer or reassignment of administrators and appeal to board.
NRS 391.780 - Request for hearing: Action by superintendent.
NRS 391.785 - Procedures for hearing; payment for expenses of hearing officer and transcript.
NRS 391.855 - "Local educational agency" defined.
NRS 391.860 - "Sexual misconduct" defined.
NRS 391.865 - "Sexual offense" defined.
NRS 391.910 - Provisional employment pending review of information.
NRS 391.915 - Certain rights not affected by provisions.