NRS 389.037 - Availability of course in computer science; efforts to be made to increase enrollment in such course by certain pupils. [Effective July 1, 2022.]

NV Rev Stat § 389.037 (2019) (N/A)

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The board of trustees of each school district, the governing body of each charter school that operates as a high school and the governing body of each university school for profoundly gifted pupils shall:

1. Ensure that a course in computer science that has been approved by the State Board is made available to pupils enrolled in each public high school within the school district or in the charter school or university school for profoundly gifted pupils, as applicable. The course may be a course of distance education that is approved by the State Board and included on the list prepared by the Department pursuant to NRS 388.834.

2. Make efforts to increase the enrollment in the course of female pupils, pupils with disabilities and pupils who belong to ethnic and racial groups that are underrepresented in the field of computer science, as identified by regulation of the State Board.

(Added to NRS by 2017, 4338, effective July 1, 2022)

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