Nevada R-V board adopts homeschool assistance handbook with annual review; questions raised on contact, pay and administration

The Nevada Community School District Board of Education voted July 14 to approve a homeschool assistance program handbook as presented and directed annual reviews of the program’s finances and operations.

Board members and staff discussed how the district would implement the two program options in the handbook, how the state’s minimum contact rules apply, how teachers would be paid and tracked, and what materials the district would approve for purchase under the program. The vote to adopt the handbook, with the annual review requirement, passed at the special meeting.

Staff said the state requires a minimum of four contacts every 45 instructional days for homeschool assistance programs, with at least half of those contacts being face-to-face; non–face-to-face contacts such as email count as non–face-to-face contacts.…