Charter Schools in Nevada

Law:   Passed in 1997

Rank:   12th weakest of the nation's 40 charter laws

CER Grade:   C

Schools:   13

Students:   2,851


DEVELOPMENTS:

  • FEDERAL FUNDING: The feds announced the delivery of new federal funds under the public charter school grant program. The program provides up to $198 million for individual charter schools, research grants and best practices dissemination, including $150,000 to a cyber charter in Nevada. From CER Newswire October 8. 2002. For a complete list of the grants, go to http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/10-2002/10072002.html.

RESOURCES:

Profile of  Nevada Charter School Law .

Links to Nevada Charter School Websites .


SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS:

Nevada Policy Research Institute
P.O. Box 20758
Reno, NV  98515-0758
Contact: Ricci Elkins
Telephone (702) 626-2720
E-mail: riccelkins@aol.com
Website: http://www.npri.org
NPRI is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research and education organization that conducts and disseminates research on public policy issue important to Nevada and the nation.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION:

Nevada Department of Education
700 East 5th Street
Carson City, NV  89701-5906
Contact: Tom McCormack
Tel: 702-687-9158
Website: http://www.nsn.k12.nv.us/nvdoe/

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