Duties of Superintendent of Public Instruction regarding uniform program for collection, validation and maintenance of electronic records of pupils and transfer of data to system; deduction of money from apportionment

1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall: (a) Prescribe a uniform program throughout this State for the collection, validation and maintenance of electronic records of individual pupils and the transfer of data from such records, which each school district must adopt and which must include standardized software; (b) Prescribe the data to be collected and reported to the Department by each school district and each sponsor of a charter school pursuant to NRS 385A.810 and by each university school for profoundly gifted pupils; (c) Prescribe the format for the data; (d) Prescribe the date by which each school district shall report the data to the Department; (e) Prescribe the date by which each charter school shall report the data to the sponsor of the charter school; (f) Prescribe the date by which each university school for profoundly gifted pupils shall report the data to the Department; (g) Prescribe standardized codes for all data elements used within the automated system and all exchanges of data within the automated system, including, without limitation, data concerning: (1) Individual pupils; (2) Individual teachers; (3) Individual schools and school districts; and (4) Programs and financial information; (h) Provide technical assistance to each school district to ensure that the data from each public school in the school district, including, without limitation, each charter school and university school for profoundly gifted pupils located within the school district, is compatible with the automated system of information and comparable to the data reported by other school districts; and (i) Provide for the analysis and reporting of the data in the automated system of information. 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may deduct money from the apportionment otherwise due to a school district, charter school or university school for profoundly gifted pupils pursuant to NRS 387.124 to compensate the Department for costs to collect, validate and maintain electronic records of individual pupils and financial accountability information as necessary to report on pupil achievement and financial accountability on behalf of the school district, charter school or university school for profoundly gifted pupils, including, without limitation, costs to purchase licenses for software to collect, validate and maintain such electronic records and financial accountability information.