NRS 610.187 Creation; purposes; duties of State Apprenticeship Director; award of grants; duties of recipients of grants; reports.

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1. The Nevada Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Support Program is hereby created in the Office of Labor Commissioner. The purpose of the Program is to provide grants of money to sponsors of apprenticeship programs in teaching that have been approved by the Council to provide:

(a)Wrap-around support and staffing services to recruit, prepare and retain apprentices participating in an apprenticeship program in teaching who desire to become licensed teachers in public schools in this State; and

(b)Instruction, including, without limitation, professional development, coaching, mentoring and induction required during an apprenticeship in teaching.

2. The State Apprenticeship Director shall:

(a)Administer the Program.

(b)Establish requirements for eligibility to participate in the Program, including, without limitation, requiring an applicant to:

(1)Establish that the apprenticeship program sponsored by the applicant has been approved by the Council pursuant to NRS 610.095 ;

(2)Use evidence-based metrics to evaluate the success of the apprenticeship program; and

(3)Demonstrate the capability of the applicant to successfully recruit participants for the apprenticeship program, prepare the participants to become teachers and retain the participants in a public school in this State; and

(c)Evaluate applications submitted pursuant to this section.

3. In evaluating an application for a grant of money awarded pursuant to this section, the State Apprenticeship Director shall give priority to an applicant who:

(a)Complies with the requirements of subsection 2;

(b)Demonstrates previous success in carrying out an apprenticeship program;

(c)Provides a plan for new or innovative wrap-around supports that are determined to be of high quality by the State Apprenticeship Director; and

(d)Provides a plan to efficiently use the grant of money awarded pursuant to this section to maximize the number of participants in an apprenticeship program who will benefit from its use.

4. An applicant who receives a grant of money pursuant to this section shall:

(a)Develop, in collaboration with the State Apprenticeship Director, standards and goals for the apprenticeship program to meet, including, without limitation, a desired number of pupils to participate in and complete the apprenticeship program;

(b)Provide wrap-around services to participants in the apprenticeship program; and

(c)Submit a report to the State Apprenticeship Director at the end of each semester describing the progress of the apprenticeship program in achieving the goals developed pursuant to paragraph (a).

5. The State Apprenticeship Director shall ensure that:

(a)Grants of money are promptly distributed to applicants selected to receive such a grant; and

(b)Grants of money are awarded proportional to the number of participants in the apprenticeship program, provided that:

(1)Not more than $4,000 is awarded for each participant; and

(2)A participant is counted for the purposes of calculating the amount of a grant for not more than 2 years.

6. Not more than 5 percent of a grant of money awarded pursuant to this section may be expended by the recipient to cover costs related to facilities and administration of the apprenticeship program for which the recipient is the sponsor.

7. The State Apprenticeship Director shall enter into agreements with applicants selected to receive a grant pursuant to this section to ensure the collection and analysis of data relating to the evaluation and identification of metrics concerning apprenticeship programs supported by the grant, including, without limitation:

(a)Enrollment in the apprenticeship program;

(b)Demographic information of the participants in the apprenticeship program;

(c)Retention and graduation rates for the apprenticeship program;

(d)The number of apprentices who were subsequently employed by a public school in this State during the 3 years after graduation; and

(e)The results of any surveys conducted of participants concerning the effectiveness of the apprenticeship program and any deficits in resources made available to a participant during his or her participation in the apprenticeship program.

8. On or before June 30 of each year, the State Apprenticeship Director shall prepare a report on the status of the Program and the effectiveness of the grants awarded pursuant to this section and submit the report to the:

(a)Governor; and

(b)Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.