Nevada Administrative Code

NAC 391.316 Endorsement to serve as school psychologist: Required areas of study. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) The required areas of study for an endorsement to serve as a school psychologist are as follows: 1. In the area of psychology and education of the normal child: (a) Child deve…

NAC 391.317 Endorsement to serve as school psychologist: Optional areas of study. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) Credit earned by completing any of the following optional areas of study may be counted toward meeting the requirements for an endorsement as a school psychologist: 1. In the …

NAC 391.318 Endorsement to serve as school psychologist: Requirements for practicum. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) To receive credit for completing a practicum, an applicant seeking an endorsement to serve as a school psychologist must be able to show that the practicum: 1. Was taken co…

NAC 391.319 Endorsement to serve as school psychologist: Internship in psychology. (NRS 385.080) 1. The internship in psychology which is prerequisite to an endorsement as a school psychologist must meet the criteria set forth in this section. 2. The intern’s period of service mu…

NAC 391.320 Endorsement to serve as social worker. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) 1. To receive an endorsement to serve as a social worker, a person must: (a) Hold a current license issued by the Board of Examiners for Social Workers or hold a current equivalent license issued by a simil…

NAC 391.323 Endorsements as specialist or professional specialist in social, emotional and academic development. (NRS 391.019) 1. To receive an endorsement as a specialist in social, emotional and academic development, a person must: (a) Hold a valid elementary, secondary or spec…

NAC 391.325 Endorsement to serve as staff specialist. (NRS 385.080) 1. The Department will, in an appropriate case, issue an endorsement authorizing a person to serve as a staff specialist. The holder of the endorsement is entitled to perform technical, nonteaching or nonsupervis…

NAC 391.330 Endorsement as emergency substitute teacher. (NRS 391.019) [Replaced in revision by NAC 391.0896.]

NAC 391.332 Qualifications to serve as substitute teacher; endorsement as substitute teacher; period for which substitute teacher may be hired; provisional nonrenewable special license; renewal. (NRS 391.019) [Replaced in revision by NAC 391.0897.] LICENSES AND ENDORSEMENTS FOR T…

NAC 391.3393 License to teach special education: Qualifications. (NRS 391.019) To receive a license to teach special education, a person must hold a bachelor’s degree or a higher degree from an accredited college or university and must satisfy the requirements for any endorsement…

NAC 391.3395 Limitations on issuance and renewal of special license with endorsement in special education. (NRS 391.019) The Department will not issue or renew a special license with an endorsement in special education on or after November 1, 2011. A special license with an endor…

NAC 391.340 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have hearing impairments. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching pupils, ages 3 to 21, inclusive, who have hearing impairments, a person must hold an endorsement issued pursuant to this section. 2. To receive the endo…

NAC 391.343 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have specific learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, health impairments, orthopedic impairments or traumatic brain injuries. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching p…

NAC 391.347 Limited endorsement to teach pupils who have specific learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, health impairments, orthopedic impairments or traumatic brain injuries. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. To receive a lim…

NAC 391.360 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have intellectual disabilities and moderate to intense needs for assistance and intervention. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching pupils who have intellectual disabilities and have moderate to intense needs for ass…

NAC 391.363 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have disabilities and who are under 8 years of age in program of early childhood special education; endorsement to teach pupils in such program. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, bef…

NAC 391.367 Qualifications for teaching adapted physical education to pupils who have disabilities. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching adapted physical education to pupils, ages 3 to 21, inclusive, who have disabilities in a setting other than the regular classroo…

NAC 391.370 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have speech and language impairments. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching pupils, ages 3 to 21, inclusive, who have speech and language impairments, a person must hold an endorsement issued pursuant to this section…

NAC 391.376 Endorsement as professional teacher of pupils who have disabilities. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) To receive an endorsement as a professional teacher of pupils who have disabilities, a person must: 1. Hold one of the endorsements described in NAC 391.340, 391.343, 391.360, …

NAC 391.378 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have autism; endorsement to teach such pupils. (NRS 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching pupils, ages 3 to 21, inclusive, who have autism, a person must: (a) Hold an endorsement issued pursuant to this section; or (b) Hold a teac…

NAC 391.386 Requirement for approval of field experience. (NRS 391.019) The field experience of a person must be approved by the appropriate department of the college or university that the person is attending. (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education, eff. 1-24-92…

NAC 391.390 Qualifications for teaching pupils who have visual impairments. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.032) 1. Before teaching pupils, ages 3 to 21, inclusive, who have visual impairments, a person must hold an endorsement issued pursuant to this section. 2. To receive the endors…

NAC 391.391 Endorsement to teach pupils in program of orientation and mobility. (NRS 391.019) 1. To receive an endorsement to teach pupils in a program of orientation and mobility, a person must hold a: (a) Bachelor’s or graduate degree in: (1) Orientation and mobility; or (2) An…

NAC 391.392 Endorsement to teach program of alternative education. (NRS 385.080, 391.019) 1. To receive an endorsement to teach a program of alternative education, a person must: (a) Hold a valid: (1) Elementary license; (2) License to teach middle school or junior high school ed…

NAC 391.393 Limited endorsement to teach core academic subjects exclusively to pupils with disabilities. (NRS 391.019, 391.032) 1. A special education teacher, whether new or not new to the profession, providing instruction at an elementary, middle, junior high or high school may…

NAC 391.394 Endorsement to teach in program for gifted and talented pupils. (NRS 391.019) 1. Beginning September 1, 1995, to receive an endorsement to teach in a program for gifted and talented pupils, a teacher or other educational personnel must: (a) Hold a license for the leve…

NAC 391.398 Substitute teacher of special education: Application for additional extension of period of hire. (NRS 391.019) 1. If a school district is unable to hire a licensed special education teacher at the expiration of an extension granted pursuant to subsection 4 of NAC 391.…

NAC 391.400 Types of endorsements. (NRS 388.360, 391.019) The types of career and technical education endorsements which the Superintendent of Public Instruction may issue to qualified applicants are: 1. A business and industry endorsement; and 2. An endorsement as a substitute t…

NAC 391.420 Business and industry endorsement: Program areas for which endorsement may be issued. (NRS 388.360, 391.019) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue to a qualified applicant a business and industry endorsement for a specific program area in: 1. Any progra…

NAC 391.425 Business and industry endorsement: Qualifications for receipt and first renewal. (NRS 388.360, 391.019, 391.032) 1. To receive a business and industry endorsement, the applicant must: (a) Have earned a high school diploma or its equivalent; (b) Provide to the Departme…

NAC 391.430 Business and industry endorsement: Authorized activities of holder. (NRS 388.360, 391.019) A person who holds a business and industry endorsement may: 1. Provide instruction to pupils enrolled in a program of career and technical education in middle school, junior hig…

NAC 391.436 Endorsement as substitute teacher of business and industry: Issuance; qualifications for receipt and first renewal; period of hire. (NRS 391.019) 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue to a qualified applicant an endorsement as a substitute teacher of…

NAC 391.461 Application for approval to become qualified provider; review; conditions of provisional approval; term of validity; renewal; approval to offer program for different area of licensure; annual evaluation. (NRS 391.019) 1. An institution of higher education or any other…

NAC 391.463 Revocation of approval of qualified provider: Notification of intent; requirements of exit plan. (NRS 391.019) 1. The Commission may revoke its approval of a qualified provider if the Commission determines that the program for an alternative route to licensure offered…

NAC 391.465 Approval and publication by Commission of programs offered in another state. (NRS 391.019, 391.021, 391.032) The Commission will prepare and publish a list of programs for an alternative route to licensure offered in another state that have been approved by the Commis…

NAC 391.470 Qualifications for issuance of renewable teaching license to persons who complete program offered in another state. (NRS 391.019, 391.021, 391.032) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue a renewable license to teach pupils in prekindergarten through grad…

NAC 391.480 Submission of notification of arrest to Department; form; requirements; updates or amendments to form; maintenance and monitoring of file; documents sent to licensed employee; exemption from notification. (NRS 391.055) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, …

NAC 391.485 Confidentiality of certain documents. (NRS 391.055) 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Department will keep confidential all information and documents maintained by the Department pursuant to NAC 391.480. 2. Except as otherwise provided by law, the D…

NAC 391.500 Recommendation to Board for suspension or revocation; findings of board of trustees to accept or reject hearing officer’s recommendation; complaint for failure to comply with contract. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.355) 1. Any recommendation for the suspension or revocat…

NAC 391.503 Failure of holder of license to pay fee imposed by American Arbitration Association for hearing officer. (NRS 385.080, 391.355) If the holder of a license who requests a hearing before a hearing officer pursuant to NRS 391.322 does not pay the fee imposed by the Ameri…

NAC 391.507 Answer; time to submit. (NRS 385.080, 391.355) Not later than 10 days after a hearing officer is selected pursuant to NRS 391.322, the holder of the license shall submit to the hearing officer an answer to the allegations set forth in the recommendation for the suspen…

NAC 391.509 Modification of limitations of time. (NRS 385.080, 391.355) 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the holder of a license may agree to modify any limitation of time imposed pursuant to NAC 391.500 to 391.555, inclusive. 2. A hearing officer may extend any li…

NAC 391.513 Hearing: Communication of parties with hearing officer and staff of hearing officer. (NRS 385.080, 391.355) 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, each party to a hearing before a hearing officer on the suspension or revocation of a license shall not communi…

NAC 391.515 Hearing: Location; notification of time and location. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.355) 1. A hearing before a hearing officer on the suspension or revocation of a license must be held: (a) At a location agreed upon by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the hol…

NAC 391.520 Hearing: Purpose; presentation of evidence; recordings and transcripts; responsibility for expenses. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.355) 1. The hearing before the hearing officer is held to determine whether a cause for the suspension or revocation of the license exists. …

NAC 391.525 Hearing: Service of papers; proof of service. (NRS 385.080, 391.355) All papers submitted by a party to the hearing officer must have been served on all other parties and proof of that service must be filed with the hearing officer. [Bd. of Education, Certificate Reg.…

NAC 391.530 Hearing: Postponement; failure to appear. (NRS 385.080, 391.019, 391.355) 1. The hearing officer may, upon his or her own motion or at the request of any party to the hearing, postpone the hearing until a date which is not later than the date on which the hearing must…