Roles and Responsibilities

A school organizational team is a group of members of a school community that serves as an advisory body to the school principal by providing advice and assistance to the principal as it relates to the development and carrying out of the School Plan of Operation in accordance with NRS 388G.540 through NRS 388G.760. The School Organizational Team is responsible for:

Providing assistance and advice to the principal regarding the development of the School Plan of Operation (NRS 388G.740).

Providing continued assistance and advice to the principal in carrying out the School Plan of Operation (NRS 388G.740).

Assisting in the discussion of any additional authority to be transferred to the school to carry out responsibilities.

Assisting with the selection of the next principal when a principal vacancy occurs (NRS 388G.740).

In addition, the school organizational team has the authority to, upon a majority vote of a quorum of the voting members:

Consult with the principal in an effort to ensure that effective licensed teachers are employed at the school (NRS 388G.610).

Provide input regarding the principal of the local school precinct to the school associate superintendent not more than two times each school year (NRS 388G.740).

Appeal the plan of operation to the school associate superintendents (NRS 388G.750).

Request a review of the methodology by which funds are allocated to schools with an additional responsibility transferred from central services (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section V).

Select of a community member to serve as a nonvoting member of the school organizational team, in accordance with NRS 388G.720(4) (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

Establish and facilitate meeting procedures and norms (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

Formalize recommendations related to requests for use of school funds made by employees of the school (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

Seek input or hearing concerns from members of the school community and formalizing recommendations related to those concerns (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

Initiate an investigation by the Board of School Trustees pursuant to NRS 391A.383 concerning parent and family engagement and school culture (NRS 391A.383, CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

Submit a recommendation regarding implementation of the Reorganization in writing to the Superintendent (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXIX).

School organizational teams are encouraged to communicate directly with and/or through the principal or, if necessary, the supervising region superintendent or school associate superintendent (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXV).

The school organizational team does not have the authority to:

Make decisions for the school or the district (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXVI).

Act as the custodian of records, respond to requests for public records, or release information protected by FERPA or other federal or state law to third parties (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXVI).

Authority of Individual Members of the School Organizational Team

Individual members of the school organizational team do not have the authority to speak on behalf of the school organizational team as a whole (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXVI). However, individual members do have the authority to submit a complaint alleging retaliation or reprisal by any District employee as a result of the performance of duties as a member of an organizational team, as long as the member is not an employee of the district (CCSD Regulation 2130 Section XXVII)