Bill
AB 584
Establishes Nevada's statewide district-level accountability and intervention system to rate, monitor, and fix underperforming districts and schools, with student transfer options.
Status and key dates
- Introduced: February 12, 2025 (as Assembly Bill No. 584, Committee on Education, on behalf of the Governor)
- Enacted: Approved by the Governor July 14, 2025; Chaptered July 14, 2025 (Chapter 40, Statutes of 2025).
- Bill sponsor/author: Committee on Education (on behalf of the Office of the Governor).
- Fiscal notes: Contains an appropriation in the Executive Budget; bill may have fiscal impact on local governments and contains several identified unfunded mandates.
Purpose / intent
AB 584 creates and expands a statewide system to improve K–12 education performance across Nevada by:
- Establishing district-level accountability (in addition to school-level accountability);
- Creating intervention procedures for low‑performing and underperforming districts and schools; and
- Providing programs, funding mechanisms, and organizational supports (including an Education Service Center and incentive programs) to drive improvement and offer alternatives for students in chronically low‑performing schools.
Major provisions (high level)
- Reporting waivers (Section 1): Authorizes local superintendents or the State Superintendent to modify, suspend, or eliminate redundant or unused reporting requirements for schools/districts.
- District accountability (Sections 3–6, 11, 13–15): Establishes criteria and procedures to rate school districts, designate districts as low‑performing or underperforming, require district performance improvement plans and school board improvement plans, place districts on probation, and — where boards fail to make progress — permit state oversight or other corrective actions (including replacing leadership or reallocating resources).
- School interventions (Sections 7, 28–37): Defines low‑performing, persistently underperforming, and chronically low‑performing designations for schools; requires probationary improvement plans; authorizes appointment of independent school improvement officials; and prescribes corrective measures (e.g., replace principal/key staff; direct state management; transfer management to city/county; conversion to charter or innovation school; facility transfers/leases).
- Student options (Section 37): Requires expanded options for students attending chronically low‑performing schools (transfer to other public or charter schools or eligible private schools).
- Nevada Integrity in Academic Funding Program (Section 38): Establishes a program (to be regulated by the State Treasurer) to assist pupils from certain low‑performing or underperforming schools in accessing alternative educational settings.
- Incentives and accounts: Creates the Excellence in Education Account to fund nonrecurring incentives for high‑performing administrators, teachers, and staff; authorizes local incentive programs under specified conditions.
- Education Service Center (Section 61): Creates a statewide center with a governing body to provide assistance and guidance to struggling schools and districts.
- Other items: Revisions related to charter school funding (including transportation), K–3 English language arts instruction, literacy intervention/tutoring funding mechanisms, and limited civil/criminal immunity for certain employees intervening in school altercations.
Who is affected
- Primary: Public school districts, school boards, public schools (principals, teachers, students), and the Nevada Department of Education.
- Secondary: Charter schools (including sponsorship and funding rules), private schools that accept transfer students under chronically low‑performing designations, local governments (potential fiscal impacts), and state fiscal officers (implementation of the new funding program).
Procedural and fiscal notes
- Contains at least one appropriation and may affect local government budgets. Several provisions were identified in the bill text as unfunded mandates.
- The bill authorizes significant state intervention powers and new administrative structures that will require rulemaking and implementation guidance from the Department of Education and State Treasurer.
Editorial note on documents in the file
- Some documents included with the materials (multiple “Assembly Public Safety / Legislative Counsel” excerpts) contain text amending Penal Code sections defining “secure facility” for firearms dealers/manufacturers (allowing steel doors with panic hardware and multipoint locks). That text appears inconsistent with the main AB 584 education package and may be a misfiled or separate bill text; it is not part of the core Nevada education provisions summarized above.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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