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Mission Statement |
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The Nevada State Board of Education/Nevada State Board for Occupational Education is dedicated to fostering excellent educational opportunities provided to all learners by sustaining a coherent, aligned system of instruction and support in partnership with all educational communities. |
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The Nevada Department of Education staff in collaboration with Nevada school districts has worked very hard during the past year to produce the 2008-2009 State Accountability Report. The information provided in the State Accountability Report includes data collected from all seventeen school districts and charter schools operating in Nevada during the 2008-2009 school year. The report includes a wealth of accountability information over a wide range of topic areas including: student demographics; fiscal information; school district technology; school district personnel to include highly qualified teachers and paraprofessionals; student assessment data, and Adequate Yearly Progress. In review of the information included in the 2008-2009 Report, I would like to make a special point to highlight the following:
• Nevada’s graduation rate continued to improve; the graduation rate for the Class of 2008 jumped 1.3% points to 68.7% making it the most successful class since 2003.
• The percentage of core academic classes that are not taught by Highly Qualified Teachers continued to improve with significant decreases in six of seven subject areas.
• Nevada’s dropout rate of 4.7% remains near the historic low of 4.6% achieved in 2006-2007.
• The gap between the percentages of core subject areas not taught by Highly Qualified Teachers in low versus high poverty schools continues to narrow with gains made in high poverty schools.
• Student average daily attendance is 94.7% and is at a high level not seen since the publication of the web reports in 2003.
• There was a significant decline in the percent of students retained in all grades Kindergarten through 8th.
I encourage you to continue using the tools available at www.nevadareportcard.com to explore, examine, and analyze the accountability information made available at the state, district, region, and school level. |
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Goals and Objectives |
The overarching goal of the Nevada education system is to effectively deliver a rigorous and relevant standards-based education that increases achievement, reduces the achievement gap, and prepares each student for post secondary college and career readiness.
• To improve student performance through focused and unwavering collaboration with all key partners for a cohesive and aligned implementation of a statewide improvement process that drives all levels (school, district, and state) and increases student learning, effective teaching, and meaningful parent and community involvement.
• To improve instruction and learning through continued use of consistent and relevant data at all levels (student, classroom, school, district, and state). To support the improvement planning process, to evaluate the effectiveness of planned programs, and to drive instructional decisions focused on increased student achievement.
• To improve the performance of all students through the implementation of proven practices that enhances instruction in core content areas (English/Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies) and reduce achievement gaps.
• To implement effective statewide professional development activities and educator pre-service preparation focused on data-driven needs and proven practices that will improve the learning of students as identified in school, district and state improvement plans.
• To improve student achievement in middle schools and high schools through the implementation of a statewide initiative that focuses on secondary education, including strategies to improve academic achievement, increase graduation rates, decrease dropout rates, improve distribution of information to the public, and increase post-secondary program enrollment and success rates. |
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