1. The Commission on Professional Standards in Education, consisting of eleven members appointed by the Governor, is hereby created.

2. Five members of the Commission must be teachers who teach in the classroom as follows:

(a) One who holds a license to teach secondary education and teaches in a secondary school.

(b) One who holds a license to teach middle school or junior high school education and teaches in a middle school or junior high school.

(c) One who holds a license to teach elementary education and teaches in an elementary school.

(d) One who holds a license to teach special education and teaches special education.

(e) One who holds a license to teach pupils in a program of early childhood education and teaches in a program of early childhood education.

3. The remaining members of the Commission must include:

(a) One school counselor, psychologist, speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or social worker who is licensed pursuant to this chapter and employed by a school district or charter school.

(b) One administrator of a school who is employed by a school district or charter school to provide administrative service at an individual school. Such an administrator must not provide service at the district level.

(c) The dean of the College of Education at one of the universities in the Nevada System of Higher Education, or a representative of one of the Colleges of Education nominated by such a dean for appointment by the Governor.

(d) One member who is the parent or legal guardian of a pupil enrolled in a public school.

(e) One member who has expertise and experience in the operation of a business.

(f) One member who is the superintendent of schools of a school district.

4. Three of the five appointments made pursuant to subsection 2 must be made from a list of names of at least three persons for each position that is submitted to the Governor by an employee organization representing the majority of teachers in the State who teach in the educational level from which the appointment is being made.

5. The appointment made pursuant to:

(a) Paragraph (a) of subsection 3 must be made from a list of names of at least three persons that is submitted to the Governor by an employee organization representing the majority of school counselors, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, audiologists or social workers in this State who are not administrators.

(b) Paragraph (b) of subsection 3 must be made from a list of names of at least three persons that is submitted to the Governor by the organization of administrators for schools in which the majority of administrators of schools in this State have membership.

(c) Paragraph (d) of subsection 3 must be made from a list of names of persons submitted to the Governor by the Nevada Parent Teacher Association or its successor organization.

(d) Paragraph (f) of subsection 3 must be made from a list of names of persons submitted to the Governor by the Nevada Association of School Superintendents.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 994; A 1991, 2378; 1993, 339; 1997, 1115; 2017, 2115; 2019, 1046)