| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 12/2012 |
P-12 |
Reflects new policy as a result of the ESEA flexibility request approved for implementation by the U.S. Department of Education. For K-8 schools, the school performance score will consist of an assessment index (95%) and a dropout/credit accumulation index (5%). For schools with a grade 12, a 25% weight will be given to each of four indices: (1) end-of-course tests, LAA 1, LAA 2 (grades 9-12); (2) grade 11 ACT scores; (3) grade 12 graduation index; and (4) grade 12 graduation rate. Provides exceptions for schools serving grades 9-11 but not 12. Provides bonus points earned from growth calculated for the non-proficient student subgroup (i.e., super subgroup) on LEAP and iLEAP scores for schools without a grade 11, and EXPLORE, PLAN and ACT scores for schools with grades 9-11. Repeals §§ 302 ("9-12 Transition from 2010 to 2012"), 303 ("Calculating the SPS Component"), and 307 ("Incentive Points).
Amends §405, "Calculating a K-8 Assessment Index" and §409, "Calculating a 9-12 Assessment Index." §409 identifies ACT composite scores to be used in the calculation of an ACT assessment index, wiht 0 index points to be awarded for an ACT composite of 0-17, and up to 150.4 points for an ACT composite score of 36. Repeals §411, "Attendance Index Calculations." Amends §413, "Dropout/Credit Accumulation Index Calculations" setting a scale of index points to be awarded for Carnegie unit accumulations (8th graders who have accumulated 3 or fewer units or are 3rd year 8th grade students, or who have dropped out earn 0 points; 150 points earned for a 9th grader who has earned at least 6 Carnegie units).
Amends §515, "State Assessments and Accountability," which clarifies that students in grades 9-11 will participate in at least one of enumerated state assessments on an annual basis, including end-of-course as applicable, EXPLORE in grade 9, PLAN in grade 10, ACT in grade 11; provides exceptions. Amends §517 to provide that a student enrolled in an LEA on October 1 must be included in that school's performance score, even if the student is enrolled in a different school in the LEA than s/he was enrolled in on October 1. Modifies methodology in §519 for determining inclusion of K-8 and high schools in testing and graduation index provisions, as well as §521, "Pairing/Sharing of Schools with Insufficient Test Data." Repeals §523, "Growth Targets."
Amends various provisions in Chapter 6, "Graduation Cohort, Index, and Rate," includign that a student who graduates high school in fewer than 4 years will be included in the cohort in which s/he started 9th grade. Amends §611, which describes the exit codes, descriptions and required documentation for a student to be assigned an exit code in the graduation index. Amends §613, "Calculating a Graduation Index." §613 provides 100 points for a regular high school graduate, 75 points for a GED completer or 5th year high school diploma completer, and points over 100 for a student who meet specified criteria.
Amends various provisions in "Chapter 7. Subgroup Component," on assigning students to subgroups for accountability purposes, safe harbor, and means by which schools can fail the subgroup component.
Pages 55-60 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 3, §§301, 302, 303, 307, Chapters 4, 5, 6
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Adopted 12/2012 |
P-12 |
Chapter 11, "School Performance Categories," provides that beginning with the release of 2012-2013 school accountability data, schools will receive A-F letter grades based on the school performance score (SPS) (§1101). Also calls for the identification of schools as gainers or "declining". Amends §1103, "Honor Rolls", which calls for the identification of schools receiving an A or B or whose graduation rate is greater than or equal to the state average. Adds §1105, which provides that if a turnaround operator takes over an entire school that was labeled "F" in the previous school year, the school's grade must be reported as "T" for the first two years of operation. Amends §1301, "Reward Eligibility."
Pages 60-61 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 11, 13
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Adopted 12/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends requirements for board of elementary and secondary education's annual rep0orting on state progress in reaching Louisiana's 2014 goal.
Amends various provisions of Chapter 31, "Data Correction and Appeals/Waivers Procedure."
Pages 63-64 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, §2901, Chapter 31
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 12/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals §1401, §1403, §1405, which related to levels to, entry and movement in academic assistance. Amends §1601, "Entry into Academically Unacceptable School Status" and §1603, "Requirements for Academically Unacceptable Schools." Adds §1607, which requires a school identified as entering subgroup component failure to enter school improvement level 1, and for the school improvement level to be updated each year to reflect the number of years of subgroup failure. Prohibits schools identified as SI1+ from qualifying for "reward school" status. Repeals §1609, "Order of Priority for Remedies."
Under Chapter 19, "School Improvement, Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure: District and State Level Tasks," repeals §1901, "District Level Tasks" and §1903, "District Support at Each Level." Also repeals Chapter 20, "Differentiated Accountability Pilot." Amends §2101, "State Support at Each Level," under Chapter 21, "State-Level School Improvement, Academically Unacceptable Schools and Subgroup Component Failure Tasks." Amends §2301, "Schools Requiring Reconstitution/Alternate Governance Plans." Amends various provisions under Chapter 25, "School Choice" for academically unacceptable schools. Pages 61-63 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII, Chapter 14, 16, 19, 23
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 12/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that the value-added educator evaluation model not be used in any cases where fewer than 10 students with value-added results are assigned to an educator. Pages 73-74 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXLVII.303
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that where retests on an assessment required for accountability are available, LEAs may request that School Performance Score (SPS) calculations include retest results through a waiver request to the state board for accountability purposes. In such waiver request, requires the LEA to demonstrate that it financed retests for all affected students and that it took corrective action as necessary to prevent a recurrence of the irregularity, including specific measures regarding any employee found to have willfully caused the irregularity. Page 61 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXI.312
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
From Louisiana Register: Amends provisions in "Calculating a 9-12 Assessment Index." Provides detail on how incentive points will be earned for End-of-Course (EOC) tests taken during middle school. Provides detail on proficiency levels for the Annual Measurable Objectives (AMO) and removes references to the Graduation Exit Examination (GEE) in the AMO and safe harbor, as the GEE will be replaced by end-of-course tests. Removes policy relative to the use of graduation cohorts in school performance score calculations. Pages 60-61 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.409, 705, 707, and 3301
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
From Louisiana Register: Identifies four state-recognized technology education course offerings within the CTE program. These four course offerings provide specific instruction and training to students interested in pursuing careers in manufacturing, and cover content which lead to industry-recognized credentialing as a certified manufacturing specialist. Pages 67-68 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2385
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
Adds American Sign Language (ASL) III and IV to the list of foreign language courses that may be offered for graduation credit in public high schools (previously only ASL I and II were included in the foreign language course offerings). Clarifies documentation that teachers of American Sign Language must hold (in addition to a valid Louisiana teaching certificate). Page 67 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2345
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
Increases the number of Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) courses that must be made available to students at each public high school. The number of courses increases by one
each year from 2012-2013 to 2015-2016, such that at least one AP or IB course in each of four core content areas and one additional AP or IB course must be made available to students during the 2015-2016 school year. Pages 66-67 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2325
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes various changes to align the evaluation of school personnel with Act 54 of the 2010 Regular Legislative Session, including: (1) Clarifying the observation/data collection process for local personnel evaluation plans; (2) Overview of what constitutes the 50% of the evaluation based upon growth in student learning for teachers and administrators, respectively, and what constitutes the 50% of the evaluation that is based on a qualitative measure of teacher and administrator performance; (3) Student learning targets in teachers teaching non-tested grades and subjects; (4) Observation tools, including minimum requirements for LEA observation tools and waiver request procedures for LEAs that do not wish to use department-developed/identified observation tools; (5) Calculation of teachers' and administrators' final composite score on annual evaluations to determine their effectiveness rating for that academic year; (6) Certification of evaluators; (7) LEA retention of copies of evaluation results and any related documentation; (8) Required components of each job description; (9) Invalidation of evaluation results for any teacher or administrator with 60 or more excused absences in an academic year (due to maternity leave, military leave, etc.); (10) Annual summary reporting to the department by LEAs of teacher and administrator evaluation results; (11) The 3 domains included in the "Louisiana Components of Effective Teaching," and the components that fall under each domain; and (12) Definitions. Page 62-66 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXLVII.105, 301, 305, 307, 309, 311, 319, 321, 323, 325, 701, 901, 903, and 905
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
From Louisiana Register: Currently, the Recovery School District (RSD) Student Hearing Office conducts all student expulsion hearings for RSD New Orleans direct-run schools, and on an as-requested basis, conducts expulsion hearings for RSD charter schools and Orleans Parish schools. Beginning in the 2012-2013 school year, the RSD Student Hearing Office will conduct student expulsion hearings for all RSD schools in New Orleans, including RSD Type 5 charter schools. The RSD Student Hearing Office will work in consultation with the RSD's Special Education Services Office to ensure that students with special needs are being served appropriately.
Use of a single hearing office will serve to ease administrative burdens on charter schools, increase student expulsion data reliability and availability, and ensure that proper due process procedures are applied uniformly for all students in RSD schools. Page 61 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXLV.703
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Special Education--Placement |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
From Louisiana Register: Rule developed in response to Act 683 of the 2010 legislative session. The Act requires the state board to approve rules regarding the administration of special education due process hearings required under the Louisiana Education of Students with Exceptionalities Act. Act 683 requires the department of education to contract with the division of administrative law to conduct those hearings. Pages 70-71 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XLIII.508, 511, 512, 513, 514, 516, 518, 532, 904, and 905
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Adopted 09/2012 |
P-12 |
From Louisiana Register: Removes the restriction that districts can only use 10% of their textbook budget on textbooks that are not on the state adoption list. Also clarifies the time required to order books in alternate formats in order to receive them before school begins. Page 68 of 153: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1209/1209.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1703
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Adopted 07/2012 |
P-12 |
From July 2012 Louisiana Register: This policy revision, related to approval for alternative schools or programs, will ensure that LEAs comply with prescribed polices and standards for approval of alternative schools and programs. Revisions include: (1) establishing a deadline for alternative program approval by BESE (July 1 of a given year); (2) revising the deadline for the department of education to provide an annual report from
alternative schools/programs to BESE (June to September); and (3) establishing monitoring for alternative schools and programs as needed. Revisions to Bulletin 111, Chapter 35 (Inclusion of Alternative Education Schools and Students in Accountability), defined and distinguished alternative schools and programs and established the category within the school accountability. These revisions required the establishment of a deadline for alternative program approval by BESE. Pages 115-116 of 411: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1207/1207.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2903
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 07/2012 |
P-12 |
From July 2012 Louisiana Register: Revises LAC 28:CXV §2318, "The College and Career Diploma" and §2325, "Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate." These revisions add some Advanced Placement (AP) courses to the list of courses that can be taken for the 4th science and 4th social studies requirements for the LA Core 4 curriculum (required for students who will be attending a four-year university in Louisiana). The revisions will allow these more rigorous courses to count for graduation requirements. Pages 116-117 of 411: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1207/1207.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2318 and 2325
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows the state board to expend Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund monies to use peer-review consultants to review programs.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812534
Title: S.B. 635
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to certain requirements for educational improvement plans. Removes certain requirements related to school improvement plans. Requires the department of education to provide trend data reports to the governing authority of each public school. Repeals provision relative to implementation of a school improvement pilot program.
Bill text: http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811599
More details on present law vs. proposed law in summary of engrossed version of S.B. 309: http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=788836
Title: S.B. 309
Source: legis.la.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Section 1: Requires that the department establish a program of technical assistance for local public school systems (previous language offered assistance to parish and municipal school systems). Requires that technical assistance on teacher selection provide information and assistance in developing methods of selecting highly qualified teachers.
Pages 1-2 of 9: http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812415
Title: S.B. 494 - Technical Assistance to Districts
Source: legis.la.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Transfers responsibility for placing a student in alternative school or alternative educational placement from local board to local superintendent. Removes certain exceptions to requirement that a suspended or expelled student remain under the suspending or expelling district's supervision. Requires a student placed in an alternative school or alternative education program to attend and participate in such program. Requires such student's parent, tutor, or legal guardian to ensure such attendance, and makes parental violation of this requirement subject to specified penalties set forth in compulsory attendance laws. Requires visiting teachers or supervisors of child welfare and attendance to file court proceedings to enforce these truancy provisions. Requires state board rules and regulations to provide for local governing entities to enter into an agreement with an education service provider for the education of delinquent, adjudicated or student subject to certain other circumstances. Requires rules and regulations to include certain elements, including the required offering of specified academic, behavioral, and mental health interventions (including credit recovery and on-site access to at least one career or vocational certification option) to support the on-time graduation of students who are suspended, expelled, or at high risk for dropping out or entry into the juvenile justice system. Provides that nothing shall prohibit a nonprofit organization providing such alternative education services from applying to operate a charter school. Requires the governing authority of a Type 5 charter school to receive approval from the superintendent of the Recovery School District before entering into an agreement with an educational service provider for alternative education services, and provides such agreement is not subject to specified provisions. Provides that any existing agreement and any prospective agreement between the Recovery School District and an educational service provider for alternative education is not subject to specified provisions, but is subject to the state superintendent's approval. Repeals provisions (1) allowing local waivers from requirements to provide alternative education to suspended or expelled students and (2) requiring dismissal of expelled students exhibiting disorderly conduct at an alternative education program. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812492
Title: H.B. 1209
Source: legis.la.gov |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends compulsory attendance provisions. Permits the parent/guardian of a student who is at least 16 but not 18 to request a waiver from the local superintendent for that student to exit school to enroll in an
adult education program approved by the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) (previous provision allowed a parent/guardian to apply for a waiver request "to attend an alternative education program or a career and technical education program.") Existing rulemaking allowed a local superintendent to act on a student's behalf in making such a request, in the case of a student who has no parent, tutor, or other person responsible for his school attendance. New rulemaking (1) specifies hardships that must be present for superintendent to take such action, and defines "family and/or economic hardship", (2) permits local superintendent or designee to approve a request for exiting public or home school without requesting state board action, and (3) permits a student denied permission to enroll in a LCTCS approved adult education program to submit such request to the DOE for BESE approval. Page 59 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
From June 2012 Louisiana Register: Adds one unit each of "Oil and Gas Production Operations" and "T2 Safety Systems for Oil and Gas Production" (both for grades 11-12) to the state-recognized technology education course offerings within the CTE program. The two course offerings will provide specific instruction and training to students interested in pursuing careers in petrochemical industry. These courses will cover content required of individuals pursuing careers in oil and gas production. Pages 59-60 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2385
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that if a chartering group determines that a facility or property purchased from the Orleans Parish School Board is no longer needed for an educational purpose, the group must first offer to sell the facility or property back to the Orleans Parish School Board before seeking to dispose of it to any other person or entity. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812059
Title: H.B. 411
Source: legis.la.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to various provisions related to charter schools. New rules define "management organization," and require a charter application to describe any proposed corporate partnerships. Requires the state superintendent's recommendation to the state board on a Type 5 charter school's application to be based on a recommendation by the Office of Parental Options and the recovery school district. Establishes issues that must be addressed in any contracts entered into between a charter operator and a management organization. Prohibits a charter school other than a Type 5 from beginning operation sooner than 8 months after approval of the charter school has been granted, unless the chartering authority agrees to a lesser time period. Amends provisions regarding state board evaluation of a charter school's performance, to require that Type 5 charter schools be subject to oversight of statutory, regulatory, and contractual obligations and all reporting requirements by the department and the recovery school district, which must regularly report findings to the Office of Parental Options. Amends provisions related to third-year review (which, if successful, allows for a two-year extension of a charter). Amends charter renewal process and timeline, revocation proceedings, and material amendments for BESE-authorized charter schools. Provides a student application period may not be less than 1 month or more than 3 months. Amends provisions regarding enrollment of students, lottery, and waitlist. Incorporates 2011 legislative changes regarding corporate partnerships. Pages 52-56 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1, 5-19, 27, and 39
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Class Size |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals existing provisions requring the state board to adopt rules related to the issuance of waivers from pupil-teacher ratios over 20 students in grades K-3. Enacts new provisions, effective with the 2012-13 school year, directing the state board to adopt rules providing for such waivers. Requires new rules to include provisions allowing a local board to request a limited waiver from the state superintendent for a teacher who has demonstrated effectiveness. Directs the department of education to annually submit a report to house and senate education committees detailing all waiver requests by local boards for the prior school year and the disposition of each request. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811608
Title: S.B. 461
Source: legis.la.gov |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Creates an exploratory committee to develop a plan regarding the creation and establishment of an international language immersion school at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Directs the committee to study specified issues regarding the opening of such school. Directs the committee to submit a written report and implementation plan for the establishment of an international language immersion school to the senate and house education committees by March 31, 2013. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812550
Title: S.B. 712
Source: legis.la.gov |
Curriculum--Science |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Science and Education Advisory Council to provide advice and information as requested by the executive board of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium for Research and Education. Establishes membership from specified postsecondary entities. Directs the advisory council to meet as necessary to respond to requests from the executive board and provide the board with the benefit of perspectives represented on the council. Directs the executive board, in consultation with the Science and Education Advisory Council, to formulate a five-year master plan for the consortium's marine science and education programs and initiatives and to make revisions to such plan as necessary. Directs the chair of the executive board, the executive director of the board, and the chair of the Science and Education Advisory Council to jointly report annually on master plan implementation. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810081
Title: S.B. 290
Source: legis.la.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Permits a college or university's governing board to grant a lease to a business in an area on college/university grounds that the college or university has designated as a business incubator or research park, subject to specified conditions. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811595
Title: S.B. 412
Source: legis.la.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides for legislative approval of the formula for the 2012-13 school year to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program (MFP) of education in all public elementary and secondary schools as well as to equitably allocate the funds to local school systems as developed by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and adopted by the board on February 27, 2012. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810185
Title: S.C.R. 99
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Eliminates various special funds in the state treasury, including the School and District Accountability Rewards Fund and the Teacher Educational Aid for Children (TEACH) Fund (for pay or salary increases for certificated personnel), the Job Reserve Fund (to provide funds for additional training in vocational-technical schools and community colleges), Teachers Education Incentive Program Trust Fund, and the Louisiana Opportunity Loan Fund (a.k.a. LA-OP fund) (low-interest loans for postsecondary education not based on need). Provides these loans may be funded from the state general fund. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812526
Title: S.B. 590
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends education requirements for members of retirement system boards of trustees. Makes continuing education requirements also applicable to each designee of a member. Doubles the hours of training required each year related to actuarial science information; the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the member's system; and fiduciary duty and ethics. Requires a new board member to have completed the fiduciary and ethics requirement and at least one hour in each of the other areas before voting on any matter (previous language required a new member to have completed one hour of education in each of the four areas before voting on any matter). http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810359
Title: S.B. 16
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires a candidate for statewide elective office or state legislator to obtain at least one hour of ethics education and training in the same manner as statutorily required of public servants. Provides for certification of completion of such education and training. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812058
Title: H.B. 365
Source: legis.la.gov |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the state superintendent of education or the state board of elementary and secondary education, as appropriate, to report electronically every 60 days to each member of the legislature on the status of implementation of certain education reform measures contained in Act No. 2 of the 2012 regular session (i.e., implementation of the local charter authorizers, the course provider program, and the parent
petition process). Requires such electronic reporting to begin by August 31, 2012, and for each report to include specified information. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=809916
Title: H.R. 175
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the governing authority of each public elementary and secondary school to adopt a policy authorizing a school nurse or trained school employee to administer auto-injectible ephinephrine to a student believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction, regardless of whether such student has a prescription for epinephrine. Requires each school's policy to be included in the student handbook and on the school's website, if applicable. Requires such policy to be provided to a parent/guardian who notifies the school that the student's allergy or other condition puts him at risk of anaphylaxis. Requires at least one employee at each school to receive training from a registered nurse or a licensed medical physician in the administration of auto-injectable epinephrine. Permits public K-12 schools to maintain a supply of auto-injectible ephinephrine, and for licensed physicians to prescribe injectors in the name of the school or school system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811561
Title: S.B. 119
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Passed 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Request that the Louisiana Department of Education and state board conduct a survey or study to determine school compliance with the state law regarding vending machines in schools and the requirement of 30 minutes of physical activity in public schools. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=807760
Title: S.R. 146
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, requires that a diabetes management and treatment plan be submitted by each student with diabetes in a public or nonpublic K-12 school who seeks care for diabetes at school or while on a school-related activity. Requires such plan to be developed by the physician or other licensed health care provider and updated annually. Identifies required components of a diabetes management and treatment plan. Requires the school nurse, (or an unlicensed diabetes care assistant, as defined, in the school nurse's absence), to provide care to a student with diabetes, or assist a student with the self-care of his diabetes. Permits a school to adopt a policy to ensure that a school nurse, or at least one unlicensed diabetes care assistant, is available to provide care to a student with diabetes during the regular school day or during school-related activities. Requires a school to permit a student, in accordance with the student's plan, to attend to the self-management and care of his diabetes, which may include specified activities. Identifies respective powers of a school principal and unlicensed diabetes care assistant in ensuring care to students with diabetes. Directs the state board and the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to jointly promulgate rules and regulations specifying methods and a curriculum for the training of unlicensed diabetes care assistants, which must use the guidelines by the latest National Diabetes Education Program, "Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed:AGuide for School Personnel." Identifies required elements of training for an unlicensed diabetes care assistant, and permits such training to be provided by a healthcare professional with expertise in caring for persons with diabetes or by the school nurse. Provides that no physician, nurse, school employee, school, or school district is liable for civil damages or subject to disciplinary action under professional licensing regulations or school disciplinary policies as a result of the aforementioned activities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812565
Title: S.B. 759
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that graduation index provisions only apply to schools with 10 or more students in a cohort. Makes methodology for calculating the cohort graduation rate adjustment factor that was to go into effect in 2014 effective for 2013. Removes provision incrementally increasing the graduation rate goal beyond 65% in 2012 (provides that graduation rate goal is 65% in 2011 and 2012; does not set graduation rate goal beyond 2012). Pages 51-52 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.601, 613, and 2403
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
To governor 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the state board of elementary and secondary education to review its policies relative to graduation requirements, particularly as they pertain to core curricula and diploma paths, and to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the house and senate education committees not later than 60 days prior to the beginning of the 2013 regular session. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810016
Title: H.C.R. 201
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Transfers from the state board to the department the authority to grant waivers from the requirement that each Cecil J. Picard LA4 Early Childhood Program provide enrichment activities. Repeals requirement that waiver applicant have specific, achievable plans for meeting the full 10-hour program requirement by the beginning of the third year of operation. Repeals provision that such a waiver be provided no more than two consecutive operational years, and only at time of approval of initial application or during applicant's first year of operation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811565
Title: S.B. 155
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each teacher to schedule at least two parent-teacher conferences during the first semester each school year. Requires at least one parent or guardian of the child to attend or participate in at least one of the scheduled parent-teacher conferences. Prohibits a teacher from requiring a parent/guardian to attend if the conference is deemed unnecessary due to the student's academic record. Permits the parent/guardian of a middle or high school student with more than one teacher to attend a conference by conference call. Directs the governing authority of each elementary and secondary school to adopt rules relative to a parent/guardian's failure to attend at least one scheduled parent-teacher conference. Requires that rules prohibit any negative action against the child as a result of the parent's failure to attend a parent-teacher conference. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812542
Title: S.B. 685
Source: legis.la.gov |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Exempts (1) Test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data pertaining to the administration of an academic examination, and (2) Teaching materials used by faculty that are not provided to students, including unpublished lecture notes, outlines, slides, syllabi, or recordings, from the public records law. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812377
Title: H.B. 756
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Extends eligibility for scholarships for children of certain public employees to children of state investigators killed or permanently disabled in the performance of duty. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811633
Title: S.B. 526
Source: legis.la.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Provides that, with the exception of tuition charged to a veteran under the federal Yellow Ribbon Program, a student who has served in the U.S. armed forces and physically resides in Louisiana for the duration of his enrollment in a state public institution of postsecondary education and meets at least one of specified other qualifications is entitled to resident classification for tuition purposes, regardless of the length of residency in the state. Directs the board of regents and each public postsecondary education management board to adopt rules and guidelines necessary to implement these provisions. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811693
Title: H.B. 435
Source: legis.la.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Amends definition of "institution of postsecondary education" for purposes of eligibility to participate in the Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust program. Removes reference in definition to an institution accredited by the regional accrediting association or its successor. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811605
Title: S.B. 458
Source: legis.la.gov |
Postsecondary Success--Completion |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Limits the maximum number of semester hours required to earn a baccalaureate degree to 120 (previous provision left this number to the discretion of the board of regents); continues provision that exceptions may be granted with board of regents' approval. Adds that exceptions may be made to 120-credit maximum without board approval for degree programs that require additional credit hours to meet certification or accreditation requirements. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811559
Title: S.B. 103
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Amends terminology to "statewide common course numbering system." Repeals and replaces priorities for integrating courses into the statewide course numbering system. Repeals existing deadlines for incorporating courses into the statewide course numbering system. Requires common course numbers and content for courses in the board of regents' general education core curriculum to be established during the 2012-13 academic year. Requires common course numbers and content for the associate of arts and associate of science transfer degrees to be established during the 2013-14 school year. Requires common course numbers and content for all remaining lower division courses to be established during the 2014-2015 academic year. Requires common course numbers and content for all remaining undergraduate courses to be established by the end of the 2015-16 academic year. Requires reporting on the status of statewide transfer and articulation of credit annually (formerly such reporting required twice a year). Requires report to include specified data on associate transfer degree program completion, subsequent transfer to a four-year institution, baccalaureate completion by transfer students, and specified comparison data on transfer vs. native students' academic performance. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811560
Title: S.B. 104
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides this act is be known as the "Tesa Middlebrook Anti-Bullying Act." Includes disciplinary records in 17:416(A)(4) to records superintendents and teachers must keep. Permits principal's salary to be withheld until such report is satisfactorily made. Directs other school employees (previously was only teachers) to endeavor to hold all students to a strict accountability for disorderly conduct; extends such provision to conduct on any school bus or at any school-sponsored activity or function. Authorizes a teacher to take disciplinary action to correct a student who engages in bullying. Adds bullying to the infractions for which a student may have a student immediately removed from the classroom and placed in the principal's (or principal's designee's) custody. Directs a principal or designee to follow all specified procedures in the student code of conduct (as set forth in RS 17:416.13) regarding bullying. Extends infractions for which a student may be suspended or suspended from riding a school bus to include bullying. Directs the governing authority of each public elementary and secondary school to adopt rules and regulations to implement specific disciplinary provisions, including RS 17:416.13, including rules and regs to include bullying at a bus stop or on the bus in a menu of check-off items indicating the nature of a disciplinary incident. Also requires public school rules and regulations to include procedures implementing the provisions of R.S. 17:416.13 regarding bullying. Expands language to allow a student, parent, or legal guardian to report a violation. Provides nothing requires a local board to indemnify an employee if a judgment decrees that an employee purposefully or with gross disregard of the facts ignored complaints from a student, or the student's parent/guardian, that the studentwas being bullied and the bullying led to the physical harm or death of the student.
Rewrites statutory definition of bullying in RS 416.13(C). Requires a local anti-bullying policy to include the statutory definition of bullying. Requires that the policy be implemented in an ongoing manner throughout the school year and integrated with a school's curriculum, discipline policies, and other violence prevention efforts. Removes references to/definition of "harassment" and "intimidation." By January 2013, directs each public elementary and secondary school's governing authority to (1) conduct a study of the student code of conduct and amend as necessary to ensure the code addresses the behavior constituting bullying, the effect the behavior has on others, including bystanders, and the disciplinary and criminal consequences, and includes the statutory definition of bullying; (2) create a program to annually provide at least four hours of training for all school employees, including bus drivers, with respect to bullying, that includes specified components, including the relationship between suicide risk factors and bullying. Prior to January 1, 2013, directs the state board, in collaboration with the department of education, to adopt rules and regulations to implement procedures for reporting and investigating bullying; requires rules and regulations to include specific components.
Requires notice of prohibition of bullying to be annually provided each at a specified orientation, and for the notification to include potential consequences of bullying actions, including potential criminal consequences and loss of driver's license. Requires a copy of the written notice to be delivered to each student's parent/guardian. Amends bullying reporting procedures, including who may report and requiring school staff and parents chaperoning a school activity to report an incident to a school official. Prohibits retaliation against those reporting or investigating alleged bullying incidents. Prohibits false reports of bullying. By January 2013, directs the state board to adopt a procedure for the investigation of bullying incidents. Requires the procedure to include specified components related to scope of investigation, timing, appeal, parental notification, disciplinary action, parental relief, and documentation of incidents. Provides that if a school board does not take timely and effective action after an investigation has been appealed from a school official to the board, the student, parent, or other school employee may report the bullying incident to the state department of education. Establishes department reporting requirements. Provides equal protection to all students, regardless of subject matter or the motivating animus of the bullying. Requires each student's orientation at the start of the school year on school disciplinary rules and provisions include state policy on bullying. Requires that consequences indicated in orientation for failing to comply with school disciplinary rules include suspension, expulsion, the possibility of suspension of a student's driver's license for one year as provided in R.S. 17:416.1, and the possible criminal consequences of violent acts committed on school property, at a school-sponsored function, or in a firearm-free zone. Provides that charter schools are not exempt from statutory anti-bullying provisions. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812568
Title: S.B. 764
Source: legis.la.gov |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Addresses the reporting of certain electronic communication between employees at public elementary or secondary schools and a student enrolled at that school. Addresses the manner, frequency and other guidelines of reporting certain electronic communications. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805394
Title: H.B. 705
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Passed 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes and directs public agencies to provide in-service education and training on sexual harassment for its public servants. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=806998
Title: S.C.R. 107
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires an election to be called before consolidating two or more school systems, pursuant to an act of the legislature or a resolution adopted by each of the affected school boards. Provides consolidation is subject to approval by a majority of voters in each of the affected school systems. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811732
Title: S.B. 745
Source: legis.la.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a local board to name the following at a school within its jurisdiction in honor of a living person: (1) A street maintained by the school board and that is not a state or federal highway, or (2) An existing athletic facility. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812046
Title: H.B. 98
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Repeals provisions providing that a school bus driver who has served satisfactorily for more than three consecutive years is to be declared a regular and permanent school bus operator. Provides that, after the expiration of the probationary term of a a school bus operator whose first date of employment with the school system is after July 1, 2012, the school bus driver may be removed from his position as provided by the local board's personnel policy. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812055
Title: H.B. 293
Source: legis.la.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Section 2: Amends provisions related to extended sick leave for school bus drivers, teachers and other district employees. Repeals provision allowing local boards a waiver from certain parameters for extended sick leave. Specifies that, with exception of maternity leave for teachers, extended sick leave may only be used for a medical necessity, and defines medical necessity as the result of a catastropic illness or injury (i.e., life-threatening, chronic, or incapacitating condition) of the driver or driver, or an immediate family member. Amends provisions related to doctor's statement certifying a medical necessity. Directs local boards to develop and implement three sick leave bank policies, one each for school bus drivers, teachers, and other employees. Requires annual reporting to the department of education on the number of extended leave requests granted and denied annually, and the reasons for such denials. Provides only the local superintendent may make decisions on granting extended leave or sabbatical leave.
From bill analysis: Repeals Section 2 of Act No. 470 of the 2010 Regular Session, which provided that school nurses, speech language pathologists, audiologists, and educational diagnosticians are eligible for leave as provided in R.S. 17:46(A)(1)(b) and R.S. 17:1170 only in a fiscal year for which the amount of the state and local base per pupil cost determination, as established in the MFP formula most recently approved by the legislature, is increased at least 2.75% over the amount established for the previous fiscal year.
Bill text (pages 2-9 of 9): http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=812415
Bill analysis: http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802123
Title: S.B. 494 - Sick and Sabbatical Leave for District Employees
Source: legis.la.gov |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits otherwise eligible student athletes to participate in any soccer camp or any other soccer showcase opportunity, including training applicable thereto, provided that such participation complies with applicable law, policies, guidelines, rules, and regulations with regard to college recruitment. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811625
Title: S.B. 507
Source: legis.la.gov |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Prohibits an otherwise eligible student from being determined ineligible for participation in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic activity at the student's school if the student's transfer was necessitated by military orders issued to the student's parent or legal guardian, provided that all of specified conditions apply, including that the parent/guardian is a member of the uniformed services as defined in statute. Directs the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to annually report to the house and senate education committees the number of students deemed eligible to participate in extracurricular interscholastic athletic activities pursuant to these provisions, the schools such students transferred from and enrolled in, and the athletic activities in which such students participated. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811706
Title: H.B. 631
Source: legis.la.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Natl. Bd. for Prof. Teach. Stds. |
Passed 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the Senate Committee on Education to study and make recommendations relative to providing salary increases as provided in existing law to teachers and other certified school employees who earn national board certification. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=810277
Title: S.R. 195
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Passed 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and request the legislative fiscal office to update the report issued in March 2006 pursuant to House Resolution No. 133 of the 2005 Regular Session regarding the means and methods used to provide funding for the operation of laboratory schools around the state, including but not limited to issues concerning equity and fairness in funding methods and amounts, and to report its findings and recommendations in writing to the senate and house education committees by February 1, 2013. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=807015
Title: S.C.R. 137
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From May 2012 Louisiana Register: Removes references in LAC 28:LXXXIII. §409 ("Calculating a 9-12 Assessment Index"), §515 ("State Assessments and Accountability"), §707 ("Safe Harbor"), and §3501 ("Alternative Schools," i.e., including alternative schools in accountability) to Graduation Exit Examination as part of the school performance score. Also repeals §3503, "Pre-GED/Skills Option Students", and "§3507, Option Considerations." Pages 68-70 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.409, 515, 707, 3501, 3503, and 3507
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Adult Basic Education |
Passed 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the board of supervisors of community and technical colleges and the state board of elementary and secondary education jointly to study the feasibility of granting a Louisiana high school diploma to successful completers of adult education programs that meet state standards and to report their findings and recommendations at least 60 days prior to the 2013 regular session. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804499
Title: H.C.R. 95
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Louisiana Competency-Based Education Program and the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program. Provides greater clarity to the definition of state content standards. Indicates that criterion-referenced tests will be replaced by standards-based assessments and that the exams will be used for language arts and math, and adds that the exams will be for science and social studies, and extends the grades they will be administered from 4-8 (pilot program) to 3-11. Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, standards-based assessments implemented by the state board in English/language arts and math will be based on the Common Core Standards. The department will establish the level of achievement on certain tests in 4-8th grades that indicate proficiency. Students must demonstrate proficiency to advance to grades 5 and 9.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802824
Title: H.B. 707
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Attendance |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends §907, "Secondary Class Times and Carnegie Credit," and §1103, "Compulsory Attendance" to accommodate the newly developed Louisiana Seat Time Waiver (LSTW). §907 permits districts to submit applications to the department of education for a waiver of the instructional time requirement for Carnegie credit. Requires the waiver application to contain a brief description of the program and an assurance that all other requirements for Carnegie credit and graduation requirements will be met. Pages 80-81 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.907 and 1103
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the state board of elementary and secondary education and the board of supervisors of community and technical colleges jointly to study the availability of and need for vocational education programs in preparing high school students for industry-based certification or immediate entrance into a career field and to report their findings and recommendations to the house committee on education at least 60 days prior to the convening of the 2013 regular session. Requires the report to include but not be limited to: (1) A determination of how the state can best meet the educational needs of students and the economic and workforce development needs of all regions of the state, and particularly, the parishes of Natchitoches, DeSoto, and Red River. (2) A determination of how to efficiently and effectively respond to business and industry needs by providing a highly skilled labor force. (3) A determination of potential costs involved in any future implementation of the study recommendations submitted. Directs the boards, in conducting the study, to involve and receive information from specified entities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=807951
Title: H.R. 155
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Creates a permanent program out of the two-year School Choice Pilot Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities. The program is designed for students with various disabilities, including autism, a mental disability, emotional disturbance, developmental delay, other health impairment, specific learning disability, or traumatic brain injury, and has an Individual Education Plan. The program allows students to attend schools of their parents' choosing that provide educational services that specifically address the student's needs. Addresses reporting requirements for the program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805343
Title: H.B. 911
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Civic Education--Curriculum/Standards |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires instruction on the Founding Principles of the U.S. to be integrated into the high school American history and civics courses. Addresses guidelines for course content.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805387
Title: H.B. 436
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires local option elections in certain school districts to determine if school board members should have term limits of three consecutive four-year terms. Addresses issues related to the process of conducting and the cost of such elections.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804836
Title: H.B. 292
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Etablishes a targeted coordinated school health program for the purpose of reducing childhood obesity and a related grant program. The program brings together several state agencies, school administrators, teachers, other school employees, students, families, and community members to assess health needs, set priorities, and plan, implement, and evaluate school health activities directed toward this purpose. The program can be related, but not limited to: health education; physical education; health services; nutrition services; counseling, psychological, and social services; a healthy and safe school environment; health promotion for school employees; and family and community involvement.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802804
Title: H.B. 1088
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop a diploma endorsement program for the performance of community service by high school students. Endorsement would apply to high school students who perform a certain number of hours of documented community service, which will be determined by the board.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802812
Title: H.B. 1194
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Adopted 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
From May 2012 Louisiana Register: Requires licensed educational institutions wishing to offer teacher education or education leadership programs to meet the same program accreditation requirements as Louisiana's institutions to continue offering that program in Louisiana. Page 84 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:IX.305
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes revisions to current law regarding standards for licensed day care centers, describes the duties of the Department of Children and Family Services relative to regulation of day care centers; and requires the guidance and input of the Louisiana Advisory Council on Child Care and Early Education regarding the rules and regulations of day care centers. Include procedures that allow a day care center to remedy certain deficiencies based on inspections.
/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804822.
Title: H.B. 1016
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Preschool |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
2011 H.B. 373 authorizes approved nonpublic elementary schools to offer prekindergarten instruction to 3-year-olds. New provisions provide rules and regulations to protect the health and safety of 3-year-olds attending prekindergarten at an approved nonpublic elementary school. Pages 82-84 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXIX.Chapter 30
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Provides for guidelines and procedures permitting the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission to receive and consider ACT and SAT test scores submitted by an applicant for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award after statutorily established deadlines..
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=799138
Title: H.B. 926
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Revises eligibility provisions for students who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces relative to the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students. Provides for initial award eligibility and continuing eligibility for certain students who reenlist in the United States Armed Forces and maintain continuous active duty under certain circumstances. Extends the length of time required to claim or maintain an award for certain students on active duty under certain circumstances. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=801418
Title: H.B. 945
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From May 2012 Louisiana Register: LEAs must require every child enrolled in grades K-3 to be given a state board-approved literacy screening. The results of this screening must be used to plan instruction and provide appropriate and timely intervention. For students with significant hearing or visual impairment, nonverbal students, or students with significant cognitive impairment, requires the LEA to provide an alternate assessment recommended by the LDE. The results of the screening provide information required by R.S. 17:182 Student reading skills; requirements; reports. Pages 79-80 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2307
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Org. (K-3/K-8 etc.) |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines grade levels for various schools: elementary schools are composed of any span of grades prekindergarten through grade eight; middle or junior high schools are composed of any span of grades five through nine that includes grades seven and eight; and high schools are composed of any span of grades nine through twelve. Middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools shall be considered secondary schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=804043
Title: H.B. 149
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends current law to allow a child who is in foster care to remain enrolled in the public school in which the child was enrolled at the time he entered foster care for the duration of the child's stay in the custody of the state or until he completes the highest grade offered at the school if the Department of 16 Children and Family Services determines that remaining in such that school is in the best interest of the child.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=802799
Title: H.B. 269
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
STEM |
Passed 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Request that the board of regents develop a strategy to attract more students to, and graduate more students from, the state's colleges and universities in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Resolves that the board submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the senate committee on education by March 1, 2013. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805327
Title: S.R. 120
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that provisions related to the employment of retirees apply to:
(1) Retired members who return to active service as P-12 substitute teachers.
(2) A retired member with an advanced degree in speech therapy, speech pathology, or audiology
(3) A retired member with a valid Louisiana teaching certificate who returns to active service teaching in an adult education or literacy program administered through a public K-12 education institution.
Prohibits the earnings of a teacher employed under (1) or (3) above from exceeding 25% of his benefit during any fiscal year. Provides that if actual earnings exceed this amount in any fiscal year, the benefits payable to the retiree must be reduced by the amount in excess of 25% of his benefit. Provides that if any retired member returns to active service in a position qualifying him as a retired teacher under more than one statutory provision providing for earning limitations, the most restrictive earnings limitation must apply to the total earnings of the retired teacher for all such positions in a fiscal year. Clarifies that a retired member's benefits must be suspended during a member's reemployment even if such reemployment is based on employment by contract or corporate contract. Clarifies employing agencies' annual reporting requirements to the retirement system for purposes of these provisions. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=807182
Title: S.B. 19
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From May 2012 Louisiana Register: Act 54 of the 2010 Regular Legislative Session required that BESE develop, adopt, and promulgate all rules necessary for the implementation of teacher and administrator evaluations. Present rulemaking provides guidelines for incorporating measures of student growth into teacher and administrator evaluations to align the evaluation of school personnel with Act 54 of the 2010 Regular Legislative Session. As required by Act 54, the revisions reflect the recommendations of the superintendent's Advisory Committee on Education Evaluation (ACEE) related to use of the value-added assessment model to measure student growth; use of alternate measures to assess student growth in non-tested grades and subjects; and definitions of effectiveness for teacher and administrator performance. Provisions also address purposes of personnel evaluation, measures of growth in student learning (value-added model), measures of growth in non-tested grades and subjects, observation tools, standards of effectiveness, evaluators (including the evaluator certification process and staff development of evaluators), professional development based on all teachers' and administrators' areas of improvement, intensive assistance, due process and grievance procedures, evaluation records guidelines, extenuating circumstances under which districts may request invalidation of student achievement growth data for the value-added assessment model/evaluations, charter school exceptions, LEA reporting and monitoring of evaluation results, and appendices (including Louisiana Teacher Competencies and Performance Standards).
Pagse 70-79 of 199: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1205/1205.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXLVII.Chapters 1-9
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Technology--Internet Safety |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to provide age and grade appropriate classroom instruction for educating children regarding child Internet and cell phone safety. Describes content of instruction;
guidelines and teaching materials for such instruction; and liability limitations.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=805345
Title: H.B. 236
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows for a public school to be transferred to the Recovery School District (RSD) if such transfer is approved by the state board of education and both of the following conditions are met: (1) Parents or legal guardians representing at least 51% of the students attending the school sign a petition requesting the transfer; (2) The school has received a letter grade of "F" or any variation thereof, for three consecutive years. Requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations for implementation of the petition process, including a petition format and submission process, signature validation procedures, and student transfer procedures. (R.S. 17:10.5(F))
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Expands the current choice program, Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, beyond schools in the New Orleans district to students statewide who meet eligibility requirements. Provides scholarships to eligible students to attend public and nonpublic schools. Eligible students must be from families with a total income not exceeding 250% of the federal poverty guidelines who are entering kindergarten, were enrolled in a public school on Feb. 1 of the previous year that had a letter grade of C, D, or F or any variation thereof, or received a scholarship the previous school year. The law addresses student enrollment preferences and priorities when space is limited. Requires that only after students from "D" and "F" public schools are placed in participating schools indicated on the students' applications, students from "C" schools will be entered into the random selection process and shall be provided an equal opportunity for selection into that particular participating school. Addresses requirements for participating schools: Deletes eligibility requirement that a public school be academically acceptable and instead requires that the school have a letter grade of A or B or any variation thereof, for the most recent school year. Requires the department annually to publish certain student test result data, a list of public schools with certain letter grades, cohort graduation rates, retention rates, and parental satisfaction rates for participating schools as applicable. With respect to funding, requires board of education to annually allocate from the funding formula to each participating school, an amount equal to the amount allocated per pupil to the local school system in which the participating student resides. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends the application process for charter schools and provides for a new type of chartering authority, known as local charger authorizers. Requires the state board to approve a common charter school application for use by all chartering authorities. Requires the board to recruit chartering groups the offer programs that address regional workforce needs, such programs may include technical education and industry-based certifications. Addresses the evaluation of and procedures related to charter applications. Addresses timelines for school boards o respond to charter applications. Requires the state board create a process for authorizing multiple charter schools for chartering groups that have demonstrated a record of success. Removes the existing requirements for charter school staff and requires that all instructional staff have at least a baccalaureate degree. Addresses charter school renewal, extension periods and performance.
Requires the state board to establish procedures for certifying other entities, other than the board itself and local school boards, as local charter authorizers. State agencies and nonprofit
corporations with an educational mission may be certified as local charter authorizers. An entity which has been certified by the board as a local charter authorizer may accept, evaluate, and approve applications for charter schools from chartering groups. Describes the state board's responsibilities related to monitoring and setting standards for local charter authorizers and the schools they charter.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a rebate for certain taxpayer donations to nonpublic school tuition organizations to fund scholarships for qualified students. Qualified students include those who are members of households at or below 250% of the federal poverty level. The bill also would give priority to students from public schools rated a D or an F on the state's accountability assessment in cases where voucher recipients outnumber available spots in private schools. The bill sets the maximum amount for the scholarships: K-8 grades not to exceed actual tuition and fees or 80% of the state average per pupil funding amount for the previous year; 9-12 grades not to exceed actual tuition and fees or 90% of the state average per pupil funding amount from the previous year. Schools receiving scholarship awards are to report specified information to the state education department and publicize the availability of scholarships, especially to students/parents in public schools that received a F or D grade.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=798959
Title: H.B. 969
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to create a process for authorizing course providers, including online or virtual providers, postsecondary education institutions, and
corporations that offer vocational or technical courses. The process must include certain required information to be provided by proposed authorizers, including the administration
of state assessments, the school systems where the provider will operate, the proposed courses offered, and the alignment of the courses with any approved Louisiana diploma. Provides for an initial authorization period of three years and provides for reauthorization for additional periods of three to five years. Provides for monitoring and evaluation of course providers by the board. Requires the board to create a common course numbering process and course catalogue for all courses and a reciprocal teacher certification process for certain teachers residing in other states who are employed by course providers. The bill also addresses state funding for the courses and providers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=793655
For more details on process and other rulemakings by the state board per this legislation, see pages 74-78 of 276: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1212/1212.pdf
Title: H.B. 976
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires performance contracts for local superintendents in districts that receive a C, D or F grade. The contracts must establish performance targets at the school and district level to include: student achievement and graduation rates. Local superintendents will be removed from office for not meeting targets in performance contracts or for other reasons, such as incompetency. Specifies that local school board policies should prioritize student achievement, financial efficiency, and workforce development on a local, regional and statewide basis. Shifts authority for certain responsibilities from school boards to local superintendents, including the hiring and placement of all school personnel. Indicates that school board policies must require superintendents to: delegate to principals all decisions regarding the hiring of their teachers and personnel, subject to approval of superitendents; and consult with teachers prior to making decisions regarding the hiring of principals at their school. The superintendent and principals will make all employment-related decisions based upon performance, effectiveness and qualifications to each specific position. In no case, shall seniority or tenure be used as the primary criterion for hiring, assignment or dismissal of teachers or other employees.
http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://legis.la.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Addresses salary schedules for teachers and all school employees. Salary schedules for teachers, administrators and other certified staff will be based on the following criteria, with no one criterion accounting for more than 50% of salaries: effectiveness; demand inclusive of area of certification, particular school need, geographic area, and subject area, which may include advanced degree levels; and experience. No teacher or administrator rated ineffective can receive a higher salary in the year following the evaluation than received in the year of the evaluation.
http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://legis.la.gov |
P-3 Child Care |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education to create a comprehensive and integrated network through which to manage and oversee all programs funded through state or federal resources that provide early childhood care or educational services.The board will establish a defintion of kindergarten readiness; establish performance targets for children under the age of three and academic standards for kindergarten readiness for three- and four-year olds; create a uniform assessment and accountability system; and coordinate with other relative state agencies with respect to the network's duties.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=792594
Title: S.B. 581
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to adopt policies that delegate reducation in force to local superintendents to dismiss teachers and other employees. Requires reduction in force policies to be based solely upon demand, performance, and effectiveness, as determined by the performance evaluation program. Any reduction in force must dismiss the least effective teacher first, and then proceeding by effectiveness rating. Reduction in force policies adopted by a school board for use by the superintendent in dismissing school employees who are not evaluated mustl be based upon the following criteria: performance and effectiveness as determined by school board policy; and certification or academic preparation, if applicable. No reduction in force policy adopted by a school board will include senority or tenure as the primary criterion.
http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://legis.la.gov |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Eliminates teacher tenure for new employees hired after July 2012. Teachers rated highly effective for five years within a six-year period will be granted tenure, other teachers remain at-will employees. Tenured teachers rated ineffective will lose tenure. Teachers rated highly effective on evidence of growth portion of evaluation, but ineffective on observation portion, is entitled to second observation and to grievance procedures. The bill outlines all procedures for notifying teachers of their performance, tenure status and options for responding to evaluations.
http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=789546
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://legis.la.gov |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Grants certain types of leave by a city, parish, or other local public school board; provides relative to the requirement that the board grant certain sabbatical leave requests; and provides relative to the requirement that the board permit certain employees to take extended sick leave.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=761403
Title: H.B. 454
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2011 |
Postsec. |
Transfers the University of New Orleans to the University of Louisiana System. Addresses facilities, resources, funds, obligations, and functions of the institution and related foundations. Addresses the transition responsibilities of the impacted institution and management boards and the division of administration; cooperative agreements; accreditation issues; and funding.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=762137
Title: S.B. 266
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Vetoed 07/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to the discipline of students. Adds restorative justice practices to options for disciplinary measures when students are removed from classrooms. Indicates discliplinary measures that need to be implemented before students can return to classrooms. Requires school boards to adopt rules and guidelines pertaining to willful disobedience by students. Indicates that K-5 students shall not be suspended in-school or out-of-school for school uniform violations, or for being habitually tardy or absent. Requires school boards to publish student discipline policies and other specified information on their websites.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=758787
Title: S.B. 67
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Revises academic standards for student participation in interscholastic athletics. Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt a policy relative to such eligibility requirements.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=758070
Title: H.B. 31
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the superintendent of the Recovery School District (New Orleans) to develop a community outreach plan to engage parents and community leaders in the successful operation and academic improvement of all schools under its jurisdiction and to solicit input on any proposed changes in school governance regarding the establishment of any new school site.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760374
Title: S.B. 216
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Indicates that a child who is at least seventeen years of age and who, after successfully completing a program established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, has been issued a Louisiana high school equivalency diploma in accordance with criteria established by the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges shall be considered exited from high school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760069
Title: H.B. 95
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Addresses corporate donations to charter schools. Discusses enrollment preferences and membership on the governing or management board of a charter school for certain major corporate donors and enrollment of their children in the schools. Addresses facility and land use related to these charters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=758764
Title: H.B. 421
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Allows a chartering authority to alter the time period within which a charter school must begin operation. A charter school, once approved, shall not begin operation sooner than eight months after such approval is granted, unless the chartering authority agrees to a lesser time period. Previously, approved charters were to start operations in July, August or September of a given year.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760290
Title: S.B. 43
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Revises statute: Prior to the consideration of a charter school proposal by any local school board or the state board, each charter applicant shall be afforded the opportunity to revise and resubmit the proposal based on the independent evaluation conducted.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760363
Title: S.B. 142
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to driver's education programs. Consolidates all driver's education programs and instruction under the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and removes the programs and instruction from the Department of Education. Requires the DPSC to establish rules and procedures for instruction.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760483
Title: H.B. 534
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop and implement a process to certify foreign language immersion education programs as a means to provide statewide standards for the programs and assist and support schools and districts in establishing and maintaining high quality, highly effective immersion programs.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760362
Title: S.B. 104
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents to work with the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to study the two-year college services offered to the greater northeast Louisiana area, and to determine how the state can best meet the educational needs of students and the economic and workforce development needs of this region of the state.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=753429
Title: S.C.R. 61
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents, the Department of Revenue, and the Louisiana Workforce Commission to report and share information and data, including the success of Louisiana's postsecondary graduates in the workforce, and to submit a report of further progress and recommendations for related legislation to the education committees not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2012 session.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=753817
Title: H.C.R. 66
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Adopted 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Provides for legislative approval of the formula to determine the cost of a minimum foundation program of education in all public elementary and secondary schools as well as to equitably allocate the funds to city, parish, and other local public school systems as developed by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and adopted by the board on February 17, 2011.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=757645
Title: H.C.R. 130
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Adopted 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests all members of city, parish, and other local public school boards to voluntarily substitute teach in a public elementary or secondary school located in their respective school systems.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=756121
Title: H.C.R. 145
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Adopted 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Urges and requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop a process by which to select a state superintendent of education that is open and accessible to the public and utilizes a committee composed of representatives of the general public, community organizations, and other education stakeholders to assist in the search and review process for potential candidates for the position of state superintendent of education.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=757239
Title: S.C.R. 87
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Creates a comprehensive sports injury management program related to the health and safety of students who participate in school-sanctioned athletics. Explains procedures for when students sustain serious injuries.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760729
Title: H.B. 364
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to concussions and head injuries suffered by student athletes, education requirements, removal of athletes from competition upon sustaining a concussion. Addresses requirements which must be satisfied for a youth athlete to return to play after sustaining a concussion or head injury. Spells out requirements for the dissemination of concussion information by the Department of Health and Hospitals.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760519
Title: S.B. 189
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Changes the name of the High School Redesign Commission to the College and Career Readiness Commission and changes its membership.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760066
Title: H.B. 79
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Adopted 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to study jointly the source, nature, and amount of funding allocated to dual enrollment initiatives, to determine the appropriateness of such funding, and to determine the impact of such initiatives and to submit a written report of their findings and conclusions to the education committees not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2012 session.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=753826
Title: H.C.R. 23
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends and reenacts existing statute relative to school readiness assessment. Provides relative to school readiness tests, inlcuding the selection, type, and content. Addresses the reporting of the results and implementation.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760438
Title: H.B. 100
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Preschool |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Authorizes certain nonpublic schools to develop and offer prekindergarten instruction and indicates the minimum age at which children enter these programs.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=758137
Title: H.B. 373
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents to study the provision of public postsecondary educational opportunities, to establish the appropriate role, scope, and mission of each public postsecondary education institution, and to formulate a plan that will make optimal use of all available academic, fiscal, and physical resources, recognize the unique nature of each institution, and allow each institution's students to successfully and efficiently pursue their chosen academic path and to submit findings and conclusions to the education committees not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2012 session.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=753824
Title: H.C.R. 30
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Revises the Louisiana Granting Resources and Autonomy for Diplomas Act (LA GRAD Act) to provide for additional operational autonomies to be granted to public postsecondary education institutions, including but not limited to authority and exemptions relative to budgetary management, capital outlay and procurement. Addresses required reporting by public institutions and certain cost data to be included, renewal periods of institutions' performance agreements by the Board of Regents, and achievement of certain standards for retention of first-year students. Requires the Board of Regents to report on the standardization of student tracking and records systems and the performance of institutions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=761954
Title: H.B. 549
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Requires audits of information submitted by such Board of Regents institutions as indication of achievement of performance objectives under the LA GRAD Act; addressesto provide the timing and costs of such audits.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760744
Title: H.B. 560
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges the Louisiana Board of Regents to aggressively and fully implement its previously established admission standards, those standards the board set for implementation in 2012 and 2014, and additional admission standards as warranted; that the board continue to ensure that developmental education and associate degree programs be delivered by the two-year
institutions unless there is a lack of capacity in a region to do so. Requests that the board include in its Master Plan the concepts outlined in the Resolution, and that the board track the data requested by the legislature. The Master Plan will outline the long-term goals for institutions through 2025 and focus more on student succes than access, including increasing completion rates. The resolution also mentions the need for postsecondary education to play a role in advancing the workforce and economic development needs of Louisiana. The Board of Regents is required to submit a written report of its progress to the legislature not later than March 1, 2012.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=758634
Title: H.C.R. 121
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Revises high school core curriculum requirements for students to be eligible for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students awards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760112
Title: H.B. 589
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents to study the disparity in tuition charged at public four-year universities as compared to their Southern Regional Education Board peers, to develop a proposal for amending the LA GRAD Act in a way that will mitigate the disparity, and to submit the proposal to the legislature.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=753814
Title: H.C.R. 110
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Revises current statute on providing tuition exemption for family members of a member of the Louisiana National Guard.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760079
Title: H.B. 232
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to increase tuition and mandatory fee amounts at institutions under its supervision and management; provides limitations, applicability and implementation requirements, including provisions for the uniform imposition of tuition and mandatory fee amounts on a per-credit-hour basis; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760105
Title: H.B. 526
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Creates the Northshore Technical Community College. Addresses the management, supervision, operation of the institution. Address program offerings, and awarding of certificates, diplomas, and degrees. Addresses duties and responsibilities of the Board of Regents and the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760359
Title: S.B. 69
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Adopted 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Urges and requests the Board of Regents to create a commission to study the governance, management, and supervision of public postsecondary education and to submit to the legislature a plan for reorganization of the governance, management, and supervision of postsecondary education not later than sixty days prior to the beginning of the 2012 Regular Session of the Legislature of Louisiana.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=759678
Title: H.C.R. 184
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Students--Military |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Postsec. |
Awards educational credits to a student enrolled in a public college or university, who is also a veteran, for courses that are part of the student's military training or service and that meet certain academic standards. Provides definitions and implementation requirements, including the adoption of certain policies and necessary rules, regulations, and procedures.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760100
Title: H.B. 500
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety--Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to the use of seclusion and physical restraint to address the behavior of students with exceptionalities. Provides definitions and clarifies under which circumstances seclusion and restraints can be used. If a student is involved in five incidents in a single school year involving the use of physical restraint or seclusion, the student's Individualized Education Plan team shall review and revise the student's behavior intervention plan. School boards must adopt written guidelines and procedures regarding: (a) Reporting requirements and follow-up procedures; (b) Notification requirements for school officials and a student's parent or other legal guardian; and (c) An explanation of the methods of physical restraint and the school employee training requirements relative to the use of restraint.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760914
Title: S.B. 59
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires a school employee to report his arrest for certain sexual offenses involving minors, other crimes, and instances of child abuse or neglect. Sets out reporting guidelines and consequences of failure to report such incidences.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760456
Title: H.B. 311
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Remedial Education Commission to review the relevant data and recommend best practices and strategies for identifying and assisting K-12 and postsecondary students to ensure that they are successful throughout their academic careers. Outlines the purpose, membership, duties, reporting requirements and responsibilities of the commission.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760096
Title: H.B. 419
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
Community College |
Increases the availability and use of electronic and digital textbooks and other digital instructional materials at community and technical colleges. Provides for the purchase of electronic and digital textbooks and other digital instructional materials and content, including student charges, and sets other rules and requirements.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760513
Title: S.B. 165
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
Adopted 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Revisions to Bulletin 741 changes the percent of cohort graduation rate from 70 to 80%. Additionally, the policy requires districts to 'post the four-year cohort graduation rate for each high school in the system and for the system as a whole on its Internet website' and to 'send a written notice to the parent or other legal guardian of each high school student the four-year cohort dropout rate of the school in which the student is enrolled and the number of students in the school identified as failing pursuant to the accountability system.
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1118
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/LAC/lac28.htm |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
Students under the age of 18 who dropout prior to graduation and are ruled to be truant would be required to exercise one of the following options within 120 days of leaving school: 1) re-enroll in school and make progress towards completing requirements for graduation; 2) enroll in a high school equivalency diploma program; or 3) enlist in the armed forces for two years and earn a high school equivalency diploma.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722818
Title: S.B. 701
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
Addressed the prohibitions on the involvement of members of local school boards in personnel matters with respect to the hiring, firing and disciplining employees. In particular, the fill focuses on role of board members with respect to local school superintendents.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722545
Title: H.B. 942
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires live broadcasts over the Internet of State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meetings. The meetings must be recorded and archived, which must be made publicly available.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722516
Title: H.B. 403
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides for Free Enterprise as an elective course rather than a prerequisite to high school graduation. Requires inclusion of Free Enterprise instruction in the required Civics course. Delete Free Enterprise from course requirements relative to the career major program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=721657
Title: H.B. 1029
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop and adopt rules and regulations relative to the physical abuse of public school teachers and other school employees by students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=721779
Title: H.B.1239
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 08/2010 |
P-12 |
The bill links the evaluations of teachers and school administrators to student growth. The legislation requires student growth to count for 50% of teacher evaluations. The remainder of the evaluation will be based on principal observations, peer reviews and other indicators, as was previously required. The law also calls for teachers to undergo formal evaluations annually. The legislation does not affect teacher compensation, and districts will decide how teachers are rewarded and retained. The value-added model is set to become part of teacher evaluations statewide in 2012-13 school year.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=711248
Title: H.B. 1033
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Prohibits inclusion of performance data related to students educated in office of juvenile residential centers, justice detention centers, or office of juvenile justice facilities in the school or district performance scores of the public school system where such centers or facilities are located.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=711316
Title: S.B. 112
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
In addition to any other performance-related labels or designations assigned to schools and districts, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, in consultation with parents, teachers, school administrators, and other education stakeholders, shall develop a letter grade system reflective of school and district performance. The letter grades will be included in school and district report cards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722542
Title: H.B. 925
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires each local public school system to post the four-year cohort graduation rate for each high school and for the system as a whole on its Internet website. Districts must send a written notice to the parent or other legal guardian of high school students that contains the four-year cohort dropout rate of the school and the number of students in the school that have been identified as failing pursuant to the school and district accountability system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722458
Title: S.B. 753
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12,
Community College,
Postsec. |
Eliminates the division of adult and community education within the Dept. of Education and transfers the responsibility for adult education programs from Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to Louisiana Board of Supervisors for Community and Technical Colleges (LCTCS).
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=711341
Title: S.B. 297
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12,
Community College |
Students who are 16 to 18 years old and are enrolled in an adult education program shall be considered to be in compliance with the school attendance provisions. Defines "effective" adult education program. Eliminate the division of adult and community education within the Department of Education and transfers the responsibility to the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. Outlines responsibilities for adult education programs by the Board of Supervisors.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722559
Title: H.B. 1055
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Assessment |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to the test type options as part of the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program. Beginning with the 1998-1999 2010-2011 school year, the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program shall include one criterion-referenced test, one national norm-referenced test, or one augmented norm-referenced test, which shall be given to students statewide in grades three, five, six, seven, and nine. The National Assessment of Educational Progress shall be administered, if it is available, to at least a sample of fourth and eighth grade students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=715439
Title: S.B. 83
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to approval by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education of certain alternative schools and alternative education programs; relates to specific standards and criteria used by the board to approve schools; to provide guidelines for such report; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722571
Title: H.B. 1225
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Prevents a city, parish, or other local public school board from denying admission or readmission to students of suitable age who resides within the geographic boundaries of the school system unless such student is legally excluded from attending school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722519
Title: H.B. 421
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Revises compulsory school attendance, and habitual student absence or tardiness policies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722786
Title: S.B. 309
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to xaminations administered to students pursuing a career major curriculum and a career diploma. Requires that construction of end-of-course examination questions reflect content and method of instruction used for related courses.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722197
Title: S.B. 490
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Revises charter school review and approval process.Provides relative to the process for submission, review, and approval of charter school proposals and renewal of charters; to provide relative to the use of local school board facilities and property by a chartering group; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=714857
Title: S.B. 344
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Updates and revises duties and responsibilities of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education when reviewing and approving a proposed charter school. Updates focus primarily on student discipline policies and plans, and enrollment preferences.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722592
Title: H.B. 1487
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Revises the process for submission, review, and approval of charter school proposals and renewal of charters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722547
Title: H.B. 962
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides the use of certain local revenues for computing and allocating the per pupil amount provided to all charter schools. Removes provisions requiring certain minimum per pupil funding amounts pursuant to the most recent legislatively approved minimum foundation program formula.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=721744
Title: H.B. 420
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes a school choice pilot program in certain parishes for certain students with special needs the opportunity to attend schools of their parents' choosing. Provides for the purpose of the program; ligibility requirements for participating students and nonpublic schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722085
Title: H.B. 216
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires that each school year the governing authority of each public school shall 10 provide to students in grades seven through twelve enrolled in Health Education age
11 and grade appropriate classroom instruction relative to dating violence.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=713157
Title: H.B. 46
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Community College |
Allows the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, with the approval of and in coordination with the Board of Regents, to establish a Centers of Excellence Program to provide customized educational and training programs to meet areas of need as identified by Louisiana business and industry.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722455
Title: S.B. 712
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Louisiana Granting Resources and Autonomy for Diplomas Act; provides for performance agreements between the Board of Regents and public postsecondary institutions; provides for autonomies, including setting tuition rates, granted to institutions that enter into such agreements; to require specified performance objectives to be met as part of such agreements; to provide for monitoring and reporting by the Board of Regents; The standards are related to student success, articulation and transfer policies, and workforce and economic development. The fourth objective – efficiency and accountability – requires four-year institutions that enter into the agreements to eliminate remedial education courses unless such programs cannot be offered at a community college in the same geographic area.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722570
Title: H.B. 1171
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to exempt districts from various laws and regulations pertaining to education; to provide procedures regarding request for and approval of such waivers, including schools within the Recovery School District. The waiver procedures are different for low-performing schools. Schools must explain how waivers will improve student learning and teacher effectiveness, and how results will be measured.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722584
Title: H.B. 1368
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Governance--School Boards--Training |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires each member of a local public school board to receive a minimum of sixteen hours of training and instruction during the first year of service on the board in order to receive the designation of "Distinguished School Board Member." The training will be in state school laws; laws governing the powers, and responsibilities of boards; and in educational trends, research, and policy; and possibly school improvement approaches.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722525
Title: H.B. 488
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that the state superintendent shall possess certain minimum qualifications at the time of appointment by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; to provide that the state board may establish additional qualifications; to provide limitations; to provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=714537
Title: H.B. 251
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop and adopt, by the 2010-11 school year, a policy whereby students are allowed to accelerate their academic progress, complete all high school graduation requirements established by the board, and receive a high school diploma in less than four years. Outlines the implementation of such policy by local school boards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722811
Title: S.B. 553
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop, adopt, and provide for the implementation of a uniform grading scale for use in public schools. Outlines enforcement and exceptions and creates a task force to provide recommendations.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722521
Title: H.B. 433
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
A high school diploma awarded by a home study program approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will be deemed by all public postsecondary educational institutions, all state departments, agencies, boards, and commissions, and all other state and local governmental entities to have all of the rights and privileges afforded to a high school diploma awarded by a state-approved nonpublic school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722829
Title: S.B. 798
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows home-schooled students to participate in high school interscholastic athletics. Provides definitions, eligibility requirements, and guidelines and conditions for participation.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722510
Title: H.B. 303
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Accountability--Diploma Mills |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to a fraudulent postsecondary education degree; to create the crime of the unlawful production, manufacture, distribution, or possession of a fraudulent postsecondary education degree; to provide for definitions; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=714419
Title: S.B. 94
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises Taylor Opportunity Program for Students, including for Louisiana National Guardsmen. The TOPS is a tuition exemption program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=717222
Title: S.B. 182
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Revises the academic standards for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students award with respect to the high school core curriculum requirements for certain students to be eligible for the program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722594
Title: H.B. 1491
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Revises Taylor Opportunity Program for Students requirements for students to receive a TOPS-Tech Award. For any student graduating from high school during the 2010-2011 school
year and thereafter, the student may, as an alternative requirement to ACT scores, have attained a silver level score on the assessments of the ACT WorkKeys system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722790
Title: S.B. 486
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec. |
Create the Louisiana GO Grant need-based financial assistance program. Outlines eligibility requirements for student participation in the program and other provisions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722804
Title: S.B. 505
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the powers, duties, and functions of the Board of Regents and the postsecondary education management boards. Requires institutional evaluations be used by the board to create efficiencies, increase student access, enhance academic quality, further the goals established by the master plan for postsecondary education.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722200
Title: S.B. 538
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722200 |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires local school districts to provide certain classroom management training to school personnel. School master plans must make provision for pre-service and ongoing grade appropriate classroom management training for teachers, principals, and other appropriate school personnel regarding positive behavioral supports and reinforcement, conflict resolution,mediation, cultural competence, restorative practices, guidance and discipline, and adolescent development.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=711335
Title: S.B. 527
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt guidelines for the use of seclusion, physical restraint, and mechanical restraint of certain students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722518
Title: H.B. 405
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
School Safety--Bullying Prevention/Conflict Resolution |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Each board shall conduct a review of the student code of conduct and amend such code as may be necessary to assure that the policy prohibiting the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of a student by another student specifically addresses the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722591
Title: H.B. 1458
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires school guidance counselors employed in public high schools to complete an academic profile for each student in the ninth grade. Outlines information to be included in the profile and other requirements.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722524
Title: H.B. 486
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to teacher certification requirements; to provide relative to the employment experience necessary for certain principals to be exempt from certain testing requirements relative to certification; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=713996
Title: H.B. 974
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Reduces the number of years of experience needed by an out-of-state certified teacher from four to three years to qualify for a Louisiana teaching certificate; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722821
Title: S.B. 728
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to make every effort to ensure that electronic versions are available for every title it approves for placement on the state list of approved textbooks and instructional materials.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=722810
Title: S.B. 533
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 04/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Aligns the certification requirements of the TOPS Tech Early Start Award with those for the Early Start Award such that high schools are responsible for certifying that students are eligible for the program and that participating colleges and universities are responsible for ensuring that students enroll in eligible courses.
Title: LAC 28:IV.1009, 1011, 1013, 1015, and 1017
Source: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v01/28v01.doc |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Stipulates that for continued state approval, public and private higher education institutions and private providers that offer teacher certification programs must maintain value added assessment results at Level 3 or higher.
Title: LAC 28:XLV.501, 601
Source: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v01/28v01.doc |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 09/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to high school graduation requirements. Provides students the opportunity to complete requirements for the senior project to sit for the IBC exam, post graduation as an alternative to the required industry-based certification in the student's area of concentration. Replaces the Graduation Exit Examination with the End- of-Course tests as a graduation requirements for incoming freshmen in 2010-2011 to help prevent dropouts and assist in helping students graduate on time.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires districts to provide uniform data collection and reporting for how finance formula funds are spent on certain students and activities, including: at-risk students, career and technical education course units, special education students other than gifted and talented students, and gifted and talented students, professional services, instructional materials, equipment and supplies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667658
Title: H.B. 821
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Vetoed 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies criteria that exempts a school from being transferred to the state-run Recovery School District, even if the school is low performing.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=664617
Title: H.B. 495
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to charter schools; removes the cap on the number of charter schools that can be created; provides relative to the fee that a school chartering authority may charge a charter school for certain administrative overhead costs; provides relative to fee amounts; requires chartering authorities to provide certain budget and use information relative to administrative fees to charter schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667635
Title: H.B. 519
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Accountability |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates the Postsecondary Education Review Commission; provides for a comprehensive review of all aspects of the postsecondary education system in the state, including governance, facilities, programs, funding, and any other issues that impact postsecondary institutions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665588
Title: H.B. 794
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for a comprehensive system of articulation and transfer of credit between and among public secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and the creation of a statewide articulation and transfer council; relates to a common core curriculum, the transfer of specified courses and associate degrees, admission of transfer students to 4 year colleges and universities, accreditation, participation by independent colleges and universities and a comprehensive student information system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=668375
Title: S.B. 285
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates the crime of unlawful disruption of the operation of a school; provides that the crime includes the commission of intimidation or harassment of any student or teacher by threat of force or force, placement of teachers or students in sustained fear for their health, safety, or welfare, or any other disruption or interference caused by a person who is not authorized to be on school premises.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=656069
Title: H.B. 688
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to the crime of assault on a school teacher; provides that the definition of school means any public or nonpublic elementary, secondary, high school, vocational-technical school, college, special, or postsecondary school or institution, or university; specifies the penalty for assault committed by a student; specifies the penalty for circumstances wherein the assault is committed by someone who is not a student or the battery produces an injury that requires medical attention.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667615
Title: H.B. 274
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Special Populations--Foster Care |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires public school governing authorities to ensure that children in foster care are allowed to remain enrolled in the same public schools in which they were enrolled when entering foster care; provides that if the placement is outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the public school in which the child is enrolled, the governing authority of such school shall be responsible for providing free transportation for the child; enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667640
Title: H.B. 590
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to the State Teachers' Retirement System; provides that foreign teachers holding J-1 visas who are teaching in a public school in the state through a J-1 exchange visitor program shall be members of the system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=668586
Title: H.B. 112
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Reauthorizes the early intervention program for at- risk children and their families in certain parishes. The purpose of the program shall be to address the underlying causes of behavioral problems and school performance problems related to behavior by pooling existing resources targeted at the child and family through appropriate action by service and treatment providers.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667120
Title: H.B. 282
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for comprehensive approach to improve graduation rates and ensure college and career readiness for high school students. Provides for the development of focused programs of study and related courses and curricula; development of individual graduation plans; student guidance and counseling; and identification of and assistance to students at risk for being underprepared for the next level of study. Provides for establishment of a high school graduation rate goal. Provides for consultation and collaboration with business and industry and the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=666409
Title: S.B. 316
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Spells out policies for habitual absence and tardiness of students, including penalties for violations by parents and legal guardians or custodians of such students. Addresses the crime of improper supervision of a minor as it relates to habitually absent or tardy students; penalties and minimum conditions of probation for certain violations by parents or legal custodians of such students, including fines, school or community service, attendance in parenting classes and family counseling programs, and the suspension of certain licenses.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663977
Title: H.B. 731
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows excused absences for students for visitation with a parent who is a member of the Armed Forces or the National Guard of a state and such parent has been called to active duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Addresses the hiring of employees by local public school boards and the disclosure of information of certain instances of sexual misconduct, abuse, and neglect committed by applicants.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667511
Title: H.B. 741
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the high school career option program consisting of an academic major and a career major; requires students in grades 9 through 12 to pursue such core curriculum and either general or college preparatory courses or the specific career courses required for his career major; provides that students enrolled in such major may participate in dual enrollment with an institution under the management and supervision of the board of supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. Graduation requirements are revised for particular courses for students participating in the program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665716
Title: S.B. 259; H.B. 612
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to the review of proposed charters, conversion of local school facilities, and enrollment of students; allows a charter school to be supported by or affiliated with a religious organization.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663033
Title: S.B. 146
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Revises provisions related to two types of charter schools (primarily those converted from preexisting schools), including approval and student attendance policies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663066
Title: H.B. 187
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires public schools to provide a specified amount of physical activity each school day for students in specified grades; provides for the establishment of school health advisory councils by each city, parish and local public school board; provides that the councils shall advise on issues relative to compliance with school vending machine restrictions, use of physical fitness assessment results, and school recess policies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663587
Title: H.B. 400
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for physical fitness assessments in schools. It is the intention of the legislature to authorize a framework to collect data to assess the status of an expansion program, based upon a pilot program that will utilize a health-related fitness assessment instrument to determine the fitness levels of students as a means to impact childhood obesity in Louisiana whereby positive results can be repeated or replicated in schools throughout the state.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665676
Title: S.B. 309
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to sale of beverages in public high schools; retains present law but deletes the requirement that beverages offered for sale to public high school students shall be comprised of no less than 50% and that such beverages shall include bottled water, no- calorie or low-calorie beverages, up to 12 ounce servings of beverages that contain 100% fruit juice with no added sweeteners, 50% of non-milk beverages shall be water and no-calorie or low-calorie options, low-fat milk, skim milk, and non-dairy milk.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663975
Title: H.B. 767
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Makes several changes to existing school nutrition programs.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665461
Title: H.B. 193
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Parent/Family |
Vetoed 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for a tax credit against the corporate income tax and the corporation franchise tax for employers who allow parental involvement in schools during working hours.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=666542
Title: S.B. 194
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes the state Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors to equalize tuition for online courses.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665913
Title: H.B. 771
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Vetoed 06/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides certain guarantees to students with associate degrees who seek to enroll in public postsecondary education institutions that offer baccalaureate degrees. Provide for a comprehensive system of articulation and transfer of credit between and among public education institutions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663670
Title: H.B. 568
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Promotion/Retention |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Prohibits using test scores as the sole criteria for determining student promotion to the succeeding grade; deletes the requirement that the Board of Education and Secondary Education establish the proficiency levels for fourth and eighth grade students; removes grade retention from the list of options for students who fail to demonstrate proficiency; prohibits the use of grade retention solely on the basis of failure to achieve certain test results.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=663544
Title: H.B. 179
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
School Safety |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies the offenses for which expelled students and their parents or guardians shall have enrolled in and participate in an appropriate rehabilitation counseling program.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1309
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to the removal of students from the classroom for certain inappropriate behavior and for parental notification and involvement.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=665714
Title: S.B. 223
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires principals of public schools where a student was enrolled to release the student's records to a public or nonpublic school which is inside or outside of the state, where the student is enrolled or seeking enrollment; requires the records to contain information on suspension as well as expulsion.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=667130
Title: H.B. 545
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide for the type of certificate held by foreign associate teachers, certificate renewal, and continuing learning units, tests required for certification, growth of the Foreign Associate Teacher Program, and adding a foreign language indicator to the list of critical certification shortage areas.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=662560
Title: H.B. 621
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Working Conditions |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides for the immunity and legal defense of teachers. Provides for the rights of beginning teachers. Provides for the distribution of the list of rights to schools, parents and legal guardians. Provides for the posting of the list.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.519
Source: |
Standards |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to technology standards for Pre K-12 classes. Reflects changes in the skills students need to learn effectively and addresses the new and emerging instructional technologies.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v75/28v75.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXV.Chapter 1
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Accountability |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the School, District and State Accountability System. Implements fundamental changes in classroom teaching by helping schools and communities focus on improved student achievement.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 611, 1101, 1501-1505, 1701-1707, 2401, 3905, 4311
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac |
Middle School |
Adopted 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the Carnegie credit for middle school students.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2321
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr |
Assessment |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to statewide assessment standards and practices, specifically, End of Course Tests (EOCT).
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v111/28v111.doc#_Toc222644588
Title: LAC 28:CXI.1801, 1803, 1805, 1807, 1809, 1811, 1813, 1815, 1817
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to LEAP Alternate Assessments.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v111/28v111.doc#_Toc222644588
Title: LAC 28:CXI.Chapter 19, 1901 to 1925
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 02/2009 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules relating to scholarship and grant programs. Allows eligible nonpublic high school and home school students to participate in the Early Start program.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v4-7/28v4-7.doc
Title: LAC 28:IV.103, 301, 504, 701, 703, 803, 1001, 1401- 1409, 1413-1417, 1705, 1901
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to math for professionals certificates. Allows individuals with pure mathematic or science backgrounds the opportunity to become certified to teach in the area of mathematics.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v131/28v131.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.348
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 12/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes reasonable guidelines for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to achieve English proficiency. Allows districts to focus limited resources on those students in greatest in greatest need of services.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.4001
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 11/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to agricultural education. Updates career and technical course offerings to be more aligned with national standards.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2373
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov |
Governance |
Approved by voters 11/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
To provide for term limits for members of the State Board of Elementaryand Secondary Education, the Board of Regents,
and other state boards. A person who has served for more than two and one-half terms in three consecutive terms shall not be appointed or elected to the succeeding term; and to provide for a limit on service on more than one such board or commission.
http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/Portals/0/elections/pdf/2008ConstitutionalAmendments.pdf
Title: Amendment 1
Source: http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/ |
Promotion/Retention |
Adopted 11/2008 |
P-12 |
Modifies the 8th grade waiver policy with additional criteria to be considered for requirement to pass state test to be promoted to 9th grade.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v39/28v39.doc
Title: LAC 28:28:XXXIX.503, 1301
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the school, district and state accountability system. Relates to the inclusion of alternate assessment results for students with disabilities in accountability system.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v83/28v83.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.3905
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
High School |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the PreGED and Skills Option Programs and spells out requirements for districts.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2907
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to allow students who are repeating the eighth grade because they have scored Unsatisfactory on the Mathematics and/or English Language Arts components of LEAP to earn Carnegie credit in elective courses. Adds a list of Advanced Placement courses which can be taught in high schools to the Advanced Placement policy. Awards two units of elective credit toward high school graduation to individuals who have provided military service.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2321, .2325
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to high school graduation requirements. Aligns the graduation requirements with the new requirements approved for public school students and will align the nonpublic school requirements with the entrance requirements for colleges and universities. Adds a fourth math requirement for all nonpublic school students beginning with the freshmen class of 2009-2010.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v79/28v79.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXIX.2109, .2313, .2323, .2329, .2331
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes emergency rules relating to scholarship and grant programs. Allows eligible nonpublic high school and home school students to participate in the Early Start Program..
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v4-7/28v4-7.doc
Title: LAC 28:IV.
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Issued 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Reestablishes the Governor's Advisory Council on Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities within the Executive Department, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.
http://www.gov.state.la.us/assets/docs/OfficialDocuments/08222008EO62SafeDrugFreeSchoolsCommunities.pdf
Title: Executive Order 64
Source: http://www.gov.state.la.us/ |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Amend rules relating to the high school graduation requirements for mathematics. For incoming freshmen in 2008-2009 and beyond, the 24 units required for graduation shall include 16 required units and 8 elective units for the Louisiana Core Curriculum, or 21 required units and 3 elective units for the Louisiana Core 4 Curriculum. Effective for 2008-2009 incoming freshmen, four units of mathematics shall be required for graduations
In addition to completing a minimum of 23 Carnegie credits, students must pass the English language arts and mathematics components of the GEE and either the science or social studies portions of GEE to earn a standard high school diploma. For students with disabilities who have passed two of the three required components of the GEE and have exhausted all opportunities available through the end of the twelfth grade to pass the remaining required GEE component, that GEE component may be waived by the State Superintendent of Education if the Department of Education determines the student's disability significantly impacts his/her ability to pass the GEE component.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2319, 2353
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 |
An Out-of-State (OS) Certificate, valid for a three year period, is not renewable. It is issued to a teacher who has completed an out-of-state teacher preparation program and either holds or is eligible for a certificate in the state in which the program was completed. The teacher is not initially eligible for a Level 1, 2, or 3 Louisiana certificate but meets Louisiana certification requirements with the exception of the Praxis/National Teacher Exam requirements. It provides a transition period that permits the holder to be employed in Louisiana K-12 schools while he/she complies with Louisiana Praxis/NTE requirements or meets Praxis exclusion eligibility requirements. For continued employment as a teacher in a Louisiana school system after the three year period has elapsed, the OS certificate holder must fulfill guidelines for a Level 1 or higher-level certificate.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v131/28v131.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.305, 309
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the denial or suspension of a driver's license or learner's permit of a minor who is not enrolled in or has not completed school or an adult education program or who is habitually absent or tardy; authorizes school boards, the Recovery School District, and nonpublic schools to adopt policies relative to such denial or suspension; provides for notification of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections when a minor drops out of school or is considered habitually absent or tardy.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504219
Title: S.B. 275
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
The recovery district shall retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for academic crisis purposes for a period of not less than five school years not including the school year in which the transfer occurred if the transfer occurred during a school year. At the end of the initial transfer period, the school may be returned to the system from which it was transferred unless the school is continued in the recovery district.
Requires that a public hearing be conducted within the jurisdiction of the parish, municipality, or other local public school board from which the school was transferred prior to expiration of an initial or subsequent transfer period.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504081
Title: H.B. 909
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the state Department of Education to develop a program that provides for early identification of low performing chools that are at risk of being labeled "academically unacceptable" and provides targeted interventions that are designed to address identified areas of
weakness and prevent the low-performing school from failing.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504275
Title: S.B. 582
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that before a student between the ages of 17 and 18 may drop out, the student and student's parent must attend an exit interview, in which the student and parent provide written acknowledgement that withdrawal from school will likely reduce the student's future earning potential and increase the student's likelihood of being unemployed. During the exit interview, requires the student to be provided information supplied by the Louisiana Workforce Commission regarding available training and employment opportunity programs, provided such information is available.
Creates the state High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008. Directs the state board to work with the school districts that have the lowest four-year cohort graduation rates. Directs the state board to incorporate specific dropout prevention strategies, target resources, and gather data that will improve graduation rates and educational outcomes in all grades in all schools. Directs the state board to develop specific methods of targeted intervention or identify appropriate existing methods for districts with a four-year cohort graduation rate below 70%. Provides that these intervention methods may include:
(a) Early intervention for students who are at risk of failing Algebra I or any 9th grade math class
(b) Alternative programs designed to reengage dropouts
(c) Increased availability of advanced placement courses
(d) Comprehensive coaching for middle school students who are below grade level in reading and math
(e) Teacher advisories such as the use of graduation coaches and other supports designed to specifically address the needs of youth most at risk of dropping out of school
(f) Strategies specifically designed to improve the high school graduation rate of students at highest risk for dropping out, including youth in the foster care system, pregnant and parenting youth, Limited English Proficient students, and students with special education needs
(g) Communicating with students and their parents or legal guardians about the availability of local after school programs and the academic enrichment and other activities the programs offered
(h) Opportunities for credit recovery
(i) Opportunities to participate in the Jobs for America's Graduates program.
Directs the state board to gather the following data to ensure that all programs are research-based and data-driven, and to use such data for continuous program improvement:
(a) Total number of high school suspensions and expulsions
(b) Total number of students enrolled in alternative schools
(c) Total number of students who have failed Algebra I or English I
(d) Total number of students who are repeating the ninth grade
(e) Total number of students required to repeat a ninth grade course.
Directs school districts failing to show a decline in their annual dropout rates to annually submit to the state board a written report that documents:
(a) The outcomes of the dropout prevention strategies to date at the school system level
(b) How the school system dropout prevention strategies and activities will be modified, based on the data.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502007
Title: H.B. 1091
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for integrated case management through the use of No Wrong Door; relates to disadvantaged children and their families; relates to student achievement, truancy intervention, drop out prevention, family safety and stability, foster care and adoption, prenatal and early childhood care, preventative health care, behavioral health, adult education and job training, vocational rehabilitation.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504279
Title: S.B. 701
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Revises provisions related to habitual truancy and habitual tardiness. Requires a student's parent to enforce the student's attendance at the school to which the student is assigned. Requires a school principal or designee to provide a parent with written notification upon the student's third unexcused absence or unexcused occurrence of being tardy, and to hold a conference with such student's parent. Requires the student's parent to sign a receipt for such notification. Establishes fines and penalties for parents of habitually truant or habitually tardy students in grades K-8.
Defines "tardy" for purposes of this section as including leaving or checking out of school unexcused prior to the regularly scheduled dismissal time at the end of the school day but not including reporting late to class when transferring from one class to another during the school day.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502040
Title: H.B. 1133
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that background checks must indicate whether a person has been arrested for a criminal offense. Eliminates provision that record of all criminal convictions provided to a local school board must be limited to convictions during a maximum of 10 years prior to the date of request. Eliminates provision that background check report must provide only such information as is necessary to specify whether or not that person has been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to any such crime or crimes, the crime or crimes of which he has been convicted or to which he has pled nolo contendere, and the date or dates on which they occurred.
Provides that a person may not be hired or serve as a volunteer until he/she has submitted finger prints to to the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information and it has been determined that such person has not been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to a crime listed in R.S.
23 15:587.1(C). http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503798
Title: H.B. 1007
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends provisions of law related to the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students Tech Award (TOPS-Tech Award). Effective with the 2009-2010 award year and thereafter, expands eligibility to include any school registered by the state board of cosmetology and any proprietary school with a valid license issued by the board of regents. Provides for the calculation of the award amount with regard to such schools. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504098
Title: H.B. 1278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that Type 2 charter schools approved by the state board after July 1, 2008 must receive a per pupil amount each year as provided in the Minimum Foundation Program approved formula. Repeals certain provisions relating to funding of Type 1, 2 and 3 charter schools. Provides that during a charter school's application period and first year of operation, a chartering authority may charge a fee to each charter school it authorizes for administrative overhead costs incurred by the chartering authority for considering the charter application and any amendments, providing monitoring and oversight of the school, collecting and analyzing school data, and for reporting on school performance. Authorizes a charter school in its second year of operation and each year thereafter to negotiate a fee with its chartering authority for such administrative overhead costs, not to exceed 3% of the total per pupil amount
Authorizes a charter school to contract with the chartering authority, or with the Recovery School District for a Type 5 charter school, for the direct purchase of specific services at actual cost, including food services, special education services, transportation services, custodial and maintenance services, media services, technology services, library services, health services, and health benefits for active and retired employees. Requires each chartering authority, at the end of each fiscal year, to provide its charter schools with an itemized accounting of all administrative overhead costs and, if applicable, an itemized accounting of the actual cost of each purchased service provided to the charter school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=501054
Title: H.B. 1105
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows the parent or legal guardian of a student assigned to attend a school in a Recovery School District the option to enroll their child in any school operated by the original school system if a sufficient capacity at the appropriate grade level exists; relates to charter schools; provides for attendance zones in accordance with established policy and any federal court order, judgment or consent decree.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504270
Title: S.B. 447
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the board of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts/Riverfront (NOCCA) to develop a plan to enter into cooperative agreements to provide educational services to students in a specified parish, in which school systems specifically request the board to enter into such cooperative agreements with them by December 31, 2008. Directs the NOCCA board to submit a written report to the house and senate education committees prior to the beginning of the 2009 legislative session, providing suggested changes in any laws, rules, or regulations needed to accomplish such purpose. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502316
Title: H.B. 1069
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates and provides for the Financial Literacy and Education Commission; provides for membership, powers and duties; relates to education on saving and managing spending, credit and debt, especially credit card debt.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504292
Title: S.B. 405
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires, by a specified time, that all children attending public schools shall have the opportunity to study the critical languages in addition to the traditional languages currently offered. Not later than the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year, every student enrolled in a secondary school in the state shall be afforded the opportunity to study at least one of the critical languages as defined by the United States Department of State and the United States Department of Education.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504273
Title: S.B. 549
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Terminates the Department of Labor and transfers its duties to the State Workforce Commission. Provides for the integration of workforce development programs, for block grants to workforce development areas, and for an automated Internet-based job-matching system. Establishes the Workforce Investment Council. Provides for the creation of local workforce investment boards. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503074
Title: H.B. 1104
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Authorizes city, parish, and other local public school boards to create public benefit corporations and enter into contracts for the improvement and management of school property. Authorizes any public benefit corporation so created to issue negotiable revenue bonds. Provides that any obligations issued and any financing arrangements entered into are subject to approval by the state bond commission. To facilitate school construction or renovation, authorizes city, parish and other local boards to transfer properties to a public benefit corporation through financing arrangements, including without limitation sales, sale-leasebacks, leases, and lease-leasebacks, provided that no transfer of property may result in such property being used for purposes other than school purposes.
Authorizes city, parish and other local public school boards to make loans and guarantee loans to a public benefit corporation or to other third-party entities to construct or renovate schools, subject to the approval of the state bond commission.
Provides that any public benefit corporation may act alone or in partnership with any private entity to leverage additional funds not otherwise available to a city, parish, or other local public school board for school construction or renovation, transferred to such public benefit corporation.
Provides that for purposes of these provisions, ""city, parish, and other local public school board" includes the Recovery School District.
Requires the department of education to report annually to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget on the utilization of these provisions based on information provided the department each school year by every school district and public benefit corporation using New Market Tax Credits. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=500773
Title: H.B. 1054
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Issued 07/2008 |
P-12 |
(Executive Order No. BJ 08-21) Directs the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Governor's Program on Abstinence to promote abstinence education with parents or legal guardians and to develop an aggressive campaign targeting adolescents ages 13-19 and parents. http://www.gov.state.la.us/assets/docs/OfficialDocuments/2008EOAbstinenceEducation.pdf
Title: Executive Order 22
Source: http://www.gov.state.la.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for phased in universal access to the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program and for participation by non-school system providers of early childhood education; relates to tuition and free or reduced-price meals for qualified children.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=505385
Title: S.B. 286
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires public schools to provide parents or guardians with information regarding making complaints or requesting information; provides for the responsibilities of schools and school governing authorities to provide such information; relates to parental notification, procedures for making complaints and procedures for requesting information; requires contact information in student handbooks.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=505397
Title: S.B. 440
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Renames "Tuition Opportunity Program for Students" (TOPS) scholarship program as "Taylor Opportunity Program for Students." Provides that qualified students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or both, who graduate from eligible out-of-state high schools during the 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years; includes dependent students. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503801
Title: H.B. 1075
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes the public postsecondary education management boards to establish tuition and mandatory fee amounts for resident students; provides for adjustments to such amounts; relates to certain guidelines established by the Board of Regents; provides for waivers.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=505292
Title: H.B. 734
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Postsecondary Success--Completion--Completion Rates (Statistics) |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Grants for Grads Program and the Grants for Grads Fund for assistance to college graduates in the purchase of their first home. Provides that eligible graduates must be Louisiana residents who have received an associate, baccalaureate, master's, or other postgraduate degree and who intend to live and work in Louisiana for at least five years after college graduation or completion of a postgraduate degree. Establishes maximum awards for individual and married grantees. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=502056
Title: H.B. 1156
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
By January 30, 2009, requires the state board to implement a pilot program to provide universal screening of students in grades prekindergarten through 3 for dyslexia and related disorders. Provides that if no monies are appropriated in the 2008-2009 fiscal year for the pilot program, the board must begin development and implementation of the pilot program in any subsequent fiscal year in which monies are appropriated for such purpose. Provides that remediation and intervention strategies provided to address a need identified during the screening must, to the extent possible, utilize a multi-tiered model structured to provide research-based instruction in a general education setting. Requires an external evaluation of the pilot program to be conducted at the end of the first full year of the pilot program. Requires an interim report to be submitted to the house and senate education committees by August 15, 2009, and a final report, including a determination of whether the program should be implemented on a statewide basis, by March 15, 2010. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=501774
Title: S.B. 719
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Prohibits a student or nonstudent from wearing or possessing body armor on school property. Defines "school" as any elementary, secondary, high school, vocational-technical school, college, or university. Specifies that these provisions do not apply to a federal, state, or local law enforcement officer in the performance of his official duties or specified other individuals. Provides fines and penalties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=499528
Title: H.B. 1153
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Vetoed 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates the Statewide Educational Facilities Authority in the department of education to provide funding, coordination, assistance and oversight for the repair, renovation and construction of public school facilities. Directs the authority to conduct a statewide assessment of such facilities and develop a formula and mechanism to prioritize applications for funding for local projects submitted by local boards based on best practices. Creates the Educational Facilities Advisory Council to provide advice and input to the Louisiana Statewide Education Facilities Authority board of commissioners to inform policy and funding decisions made by the board.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=498623
Veto message: http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/08rs/veto/sb632v.pdf
Title: S.B. 632
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibits passing other motor vehicles in school zones during posted hours. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=504101
Title: H.B. 1367
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to schools that have been labeled academically unacceptable or failed schools for which a school board has not presented or implemented an acceptable reconstitution plan; provides a retention period for schools transferred to a Recovery School District; requires the Recovery School District to report information to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on the status of such schools, including recommendations on whether the school should be closed or returned to the school system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497379
Title: H.B. 463
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Attendance |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that a child whose parent is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the National Guard and such parent has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment shall be granted up to five excused absences from school per school year for the child to visit with his or her parent. Provides that upon returning to school, the student must be permitted to complete all class assignments, including all tests, missed while the child was absent. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497665
Title: H.B. 200
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Workforce Training Rapid Response Fund. Authorizes the board of supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to use such funds for various purposes, including for education directed at refining or developing literacy or other basic education skills; programs directed at lifelong learning or continuing education; job readiness training; vocational, technical, or occupation education; worker or workplace education; articulated career path programs and constituent courses of such programs that lead to initial or continuing licensure, certification, or associate degree level accreditation; and other education programs whose purpose is to assist citizens to improve their employment opportunities.
Directs the the secretary of the department of labor, the secretary of the department of economic development, the commissioner of higher education, the chairman of the workforce investment council, and the chief executive officer of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System to approve a strategic plan, based on specified data, that provides direction to the board on how monies appropriated from the fund should be expended. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=500887
Title: H.B. 1018
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Changes the charter school renewal period. Replaces existing 10-year renewal period with renewal period ranging from three to 10 years. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=498131
Title: H.B. 349
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Increases the limitation on the number of charter school proposals that can be entered into by all chartering authorities from 42 to 70. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=494906
Title: H.B. 321
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires charter schools receiving transportation services from a local school board to reimburse the board for the cost of providing such transportation.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503464
Title: S.B. 475
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program. Defines "covered district" as one that is found academically in crisis pursuant to R.S. 17:10.6, has had schools transfered to the jurisdiction of the Recovery School District, and is located in a parish with a population of at least 475,000 people. Provides that eligible students include those who live in a covered district, are in a family whose income does not exceed 250% of the current federal poverty guidelines, and who meet any of the following criteria: (1) Are entering kindergarten; (2) Were enrolled the previous year in an eligible grade in a school in a covered district and such school has been identified as academically unacceptable or has a school performance score or an assessment index of sixty or below; (3) Received a Student Scholarship for Educational Excellence award in the previous school year and remains otherwise eligible. Provides that for the 2008-2009 academic year, eligible students must be in grades K-3. Provides students in grades 4-12 will be eligible for scholarships as members of the K-3 cohort advance one grade level each year. Provides that a covered district that is eligible for inclusion in the program on the effective date of this Chapter must be considered a covered district for the duration of the program. Establishes eligibility criteria for nonpublic and public schools to participate in the program.
Provides scholarships for eligible students to attend participating public and nonpublic schools. Provides that the scholarship amount must equal the lesser of 90% of the per pupil amount the covered district receives from combined state and local sources, or the maximum amount of tuition plus incidental or supplementary fees that are charged to non-scholarship students enrolled in such school, plus testing fees. If a scholarship recipient enrolls in a school that does not charge tuition, the scholarship amount must equal the lesser of 90% of the per pupil amount the covered district receives from state and local sources, or the participating school's actual cost of educating a student, plus testing fees. Provides for an additional scholarship amount for scholarship recipients entitled to receive special education services. Provides a maximum of $10 million for the 2008-2009 fiscal year to implement this program.
Requires nonpublic schools to administer all assessments required as part of the Louisiana School and District Accountability System, including the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, the integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP), and graduation exit examinations. Requires the department of education to report annually to the senate and house education committees and the joint legislative committee on the budget regarding program implementation, including the number of eligible students receiving scholarships, a list of participating schools and the number of scholarship recipients each such school enrolled, and aggregate test result data for the scholarship recipients enrolled in each participating school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503381
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Removes exception for Orleans Parish relative to requirements that a local public school superintendent serve as the treasurer of certain school funds and perform specified duties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495037
Title: H.B. 305
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Concerns training and instruction for public school board members. Makes board member training requirement four hours annually (formerly was six hours total). Provides that for board members in a school district with one or more schools identified as an academically unacceptable school or a school in need of academic assistance, at least two hours of training must focus on the improvement of schools identified as failing schools. Provides the remaining hours must focus on education policy issues, including literacy and numeracy, leadership development, dropout prevention, career and technical education, redesigning high schools, early childhood education, school discipline, and harassment, intimidation, and bullying. Requires training to also include instruction on the Open Meetings Law and Public Bid Law. Requires that the instruction and the method for demonstrating attendance be pre-approved by the Louisiana School Boards Association. Requires that each school board member's attendance be reported by the instructor to the Louisiana School Boards Association. Requires the Louisiana School Boards Association to post on its Web site regularly updated information on the number and subject matter of training hours completed by each school board member.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495942
Title: H.B. 1256
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Re-creates the department of education; changes the termination date unless the department is again re-created; provides for the general re-creation of the department of education and its statutory entities in accordance with the sunset law; supersedes provisions of the sunset law which set out the procedure for review and re-creation and which require a separate bill to re-create each statutory entity within the department. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495045
Title: H.B. 576
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Became law without governor's signature 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards to provide information on human papillomavirus and immunization against it to the parents of students in grades 6-12. Requires such information to describe the link between HPV and cervical cancer, how HPV is spread and where a person may be immunized against it. Requires information to be updated annually if new HPV information is available. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=493973
Title: H.B. 359
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the chief administrators of all public and private elementary and secondary schools, kindergartens, colleges, universities, proprietary schools, vocational schools and licensed day care centers to electronically transmit immunization compliance reports to the department of health and hospitals, office of public health, when the public or private school operates an existing student-specific electronic data system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495032
Title: H.B. 184
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, requires students to provide evidence of vaccination against meningococcal disease as a condition of entry into 6th grade at a public or nonpublic school or home study program. Authorizes waivers for religious or other personal reasons. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=494837
Title: H.B. 178
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Effective with the 2009-2010 school year, requires each person entering the sixth grade in any school in the state to present evidence of immunity to or immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497675
Title: H.B. 581
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires all public and nonpublic postsecondary education institutions to electronically transmit immunization compliance reports to the department of health and hospitals, office of public health, when the institution operates an existing student-specific electronic data system, that, as of June 1, 2008, collects detailed information regarding vaccines and immunization dates electronically. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503627
Title: H.B. 187
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires in-service training for teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators in suicide prevention; provides that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt guidelines and rules for such training.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=498837
Title: H.B. 719
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Adds a member of the Nonpublic School Commission to the High School Redesign Commission. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497679
Title: H.B. 721
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that any student enrolled in a Louisiana high school, at least 15 years old, in grade 11 or 12, and meets other criteria established by the board of regents is eligible to participate in a dual enrollment program. Expands eligibility in dual enrollment to include students in nonpublic high school and home school programs. Specifies that state funds may not be used to pay the tuition costs of a dually enrolled homeschool or private school student. Provides, however, that such students must pay the same tuition as is paid by the state on behalf of a student attending a public high school.
Directs the board of regents, in consultation with the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission, to study and report in writing to the senate and house education committees prior to the convening of the 2009 legislative session on the estimated cost of providing state dollars, beginning with the 2009-2010 fiscal year, to fund participation in the dual enrollment program of otherwise eligible students who attend nonpublic high schools or home study programs, both state-approved programs as well as others, in the same manner as provided for eligible students attending public high schools. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503478
Title: S.B. 482
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides for the adoption and implementation of a comprehensive system of articulation of Carnegie units earned in a secondary school and college credit hours earned in a postsecondary institution. Requires postsecondary education management boards to provide for the adoption and implementation of a system of course articulation between all institutions for all college credit units earned in such institutions. Requires high school/postsecondary and inter-postsecondary articulation plans to be implemented by July 1, 2010. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503474
Title: S.B. 537
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Makes provisions relative to certain duties of a local public school superintendent, including but not limited to serving as school board secretary, applicable to Orleans Parish by removing certain exceptions, prohibitions and alternative requirements. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495038
Title: H.B. 306
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that no student who has been expelled from any school for possessing weapons or drugs shall be admitted or readmitted to any public school until the student provides written documentation that he and his parent or legal guardian have participated in rehabilitation or counseling programs. (Existing policy only required the student to produce written documentation of participation in a counseling or rehabilitation program prior to re-enrollment in a public school.)
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497668
Title: H.B. 361
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Permits unclassified employees employed by a public postsecondary education management board to use up to two days sick leave each academic year for personal purposes. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503380
Title: H.B. 1325
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Became law without governor's signature 06/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to special college and university license plates. Amends present law which requires a royalty fee for the use of an institution's design on a special license plate to be paid to such institution. Provides that the royalty fee is an annual fee. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495941
Title: H.B. 1240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
Postsec. |
Provides that any alumni association, alumni foundation, or other private, nonprofit alumni organization that supports a public institution of higher education and that raises $75,000 or less in a fiscal year is not required to have an audit. Requires such an alumni association to execute a certification indicating that it received $75,000 or less in funds in the fiscal year, and to prepare a sworn financial statement. Establishes required content of sworn financial statement. Requires copies of the certification and sworn financial statement to be furnished to the legislative auditor. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503376
Title: H.B. 1184
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Privatization |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Recovery School District; prohibits the RSD from contracting with any for-profit private provider for the general operation of schools under its jurisdiction but authorizes the RSD to contract with for-profit providers for any needed services for such schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497368
Title: H.B. 350
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Religion |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates the Science Education Act; relates to curriculum and instruction in public elementary and secondary schools; provides that, upon request of a city, parish, or school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall allow and assist teachers in promoting critical thinking skills and open and objective discussion of scientific theories, including evolution and global warming; authorizes teachers to use supplemental textbooks.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503483
Title: S.B. 733
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, requires the governing authority of an elementary or secondary school to provide every student an orientation during the first five days of the school year regarding school disciplinary rules and student conduct. Provides that such orientation must also clearly communicate to students the rights afforded to teachers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495912
Title: H.B. 754
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
For purposes of R.S. 14:34.3 and R.S. 38.2 relating to battery of a school teacher, extends definition of "school teacher" to include any teacher aide and paraprofessional, school bus driver, food service worker, and other clerical, custodial, or maintenance personnel employed by a public school board. Increases maximum fine for conviction on charges of battery of a school teacher from $1,000 to $5,000 and increases minimum and maximum prison sentences. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495609
Title: H.B. 757
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that no school employee can be required by any local public school board, the state board of elementary and secondary education, or the state department of education to complete paperwork if the information provided for in such paperwork is reasonably and readily available from another source. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495900
Title: H.B. 657
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Permits a parent of more than one child born at the same birth event to request that such children initially be placed in the same classroom or in separate classrooms. Specifies that such request must be granted. Requires a review of the placement decision after the end of the first grading period. Permits modification of the placement under certain circumstances. Limits applicability to children enrolled in a public elementary school through the second grade. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503379
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school bus warranty repair work to be performed by repair facilities, authorized by the manufacturer or distributor, that are not school bus dealers. Clarifies that manufacturers may authorize that warranty and other repair or maintenance services be performed at any location of a motor vehicle dealer that holds a franchise from any affiliate or subsidiary of the manufacturer. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503348
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Prohibit school bus operators from using cell phones while driving. Provides exceptions for enumerated emergency situations. Provides that a violation of this prohibition is a misdemeanor, and establishes maximum penalties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495850
Title: H.B. 402
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires school buses, whether transporting passengers or not, and motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire, to stop at railroad crossings and only proceed when safe to do so. Requires a school bus driver, after coming to a complete stop, to open the door of the bus prior to proceeding over the crossing. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503670
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides for comprehensive revision of the educational opportunities for children with exceptionalities provisions. The following are the major changes, as set forth in the digest (http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=488156) of the reengrossed bill:
(1) Shortens current language; retains the requirement that the state and local education agencies must provide a free appropriate public education to students with disabilities ages 3-21.
(2) Adopts the definitions used in federal law (IDEA) except for those listed, "student with an exceptionality", "service agency", "local education agency", "and resident". The definition of "student with an exceptionality" mirrors the federal definition but retains
"gifted/talented".
(3) Provides that proposed law must be administered by the state department of education, with the approval of the state board of elementary and secondary education. Provides for a mechanism to ensure that interagency coordination occurs among state and local agencies. Emphasizes that local education agencies may use Medicaid and other sources of public insurers to provide services.
(4) Requires local education agencies to have in effect policies, procedures and programs to provide special education that are consistent with state policies and procedures. Allows the provision of services to children less than three years of age. Prohibits more than a three-year chronological age span in a class. Allows for the local education agencies to establish programs in concert with other local education agencies in order to pool resources. Requires that the local education agency provide transportation even when a cooperative endeavor between two local education agencies is necessary to provide special education services.
(5) Requires the state department of education to operate one or more residential schools for the education of students with hearing, visual, or orthopedic impairments and adopt regulations necessary to implement proposed law, including admission and placement requirements. Establishes the special school district to provide special education to students enrolled in any state-operated facility as a resident.
(6) Requires the state department of education and local education agencies to establish and maintain regulations and procedures to ensure that parents and children are afforded procedural safeguards, including but not limited to the right of a parent or agency to initiate a request for due process hearing. Limits liability to employees of school systems who render certain services. Defines confidentiality of information during mediation and individualized education program facilitation.
(7) States that local education agencies must provide special education and related services to children who are within the geographical boundaries of the local education agency; however, the local education agency must pay the costs only for such children who are residents therein. Provides that for a child living in a private residential facility in the state who is not a resident of the state or in the legal custody of a state agency, the local
education agency must provide the services and must be reimbursed by the residential facility. Requires the state to fund services for students in the special school
district and the special schools. Allows the state department of education and local education agencies to enter into purchase of service agreements or contracts to provide special education services.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495696
Title: H.B. 1053
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt regulations prohibiting interaction between a student and a school employee in any enclosed area on school property unless an authorized adult is present or the student and employee are clearly viewable by persons outside such area; provides exceptions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=496511
Title: H.B. 574
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Renames provisions of law providing for the rights of teachers to the Teacher Bill of Rights. Provides that teachers have a right to immunity and legal defense. Provides that a beginning teacher has the right to receive leadership, including the assignment of a qualified, experienced mentor to help him or her become a competent professional in the classroom. Requires school boards to post the rights in schools and to provide a copy to parents or legal guardians. Requires districts and schools maintaining a Web site to post such rights on their Web site. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497678
Title: H.B. 672
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to members of the School Employees' Retirement System; repeals the prohibition against being a member of two retirement systems. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=495929
Title: H.B. 520
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt rules requiring local school boards to conduct exit interviews for teachers who leave their employ; provides that such interviews shall be for the purpose of ascertaining reasons for leaving and to assist in developing strategies to improve teacher retention rates.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=503472
Title: S.B. 548
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to revise Nonpublic Bulletin 741 - Louisiana Handbook for Nonpublic School Administrators. Allows teachers with master's degrees and 10 or more years of experience teaching at the college level or in a K-12 school to forego the required 12 college hours of Knowledge of the Learner and the Learning Environment classes. Provides the teachers must meet all other requirements. Removes the stipulation that only secondary teachers can teach in areas other than their major field for less than half the school day. Requires the teachers to have earned at least 12 semester hours in the content area.
These revisions were requested by Nonpublic School Commission to facilitate obtaining experienced and qualified teachers. Page 609: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0804/0804.doc
Title: LAC 28:LXXIX.303
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Assessment |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Incorporates guidelines for usage of the statewide online assessment data systems and updates the names of content areas to be assessed through end-of-course tests. Pages 431-432: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0803/0803.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXI.305 and 1801
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Assessment |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends several rules relating to the statewide assessment standards and practices for testing, including: testing security, administrative errors, coordinators, end-of-course exams and field testing. See full text below.
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v111/28v111.doc
Title: Bulletin 118
Source: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the Entrepreneurship Content Standards Curriculum Framework. Updates and lists career and technical course offerings. See page 58
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v115/28v115.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2377
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/ |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to the Entrepreneurship Content Standards Curriculum Framework. Discusses specific skills, traits, characteristics, objectives and benchmarks of the standards, and relation to other subjects. Relates to Career & Tech programs.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v143/28v143.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXLIII.Chapters 1-5
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/ |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to charter schools. Provides for the authorizing responsibilities of the Board, the application process, performance contracting, evaluation of schools, extensions, renewals and revocations, amendments, governance, funding, fiscal responsibilities, enrollment, and school staff.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v139/28v139.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXXXIX.Chapters 1 thru 35 (Bulletin 126)
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/ |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Grants an individual income tax deduction for tuition and fees paid to enroll a child in a parochial or private school, or any public elementary or secondary school affiliated with a public college or university, for 50% of the tuition and fees paid or $5,000, whichever is less.
Grants an individual income tax deduction for educational expenses, including textbooks and curricula, incurred by homeschoolers, equal to 50% of the actual amount of qualified educational expenses incurred by the taxpayer for the home-schooling of each child, or $5,000 per child, whichever is less.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=462777
Title: S.B. 5B
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes qualification and education requirements for persons designated by state agencies to provide ethics education and information to their agencies; provides relative to identifying the designees for an agency and who is required to designate such persons. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=459350
Title: H.B. 33A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires each public servant to receive a certain amount of ethics education and training during each year of his term of office or employment. Requires each registered lobbyist to receive a certain amount of training on the lobbying laws under which he is registered and relevant ethics code provisions during each year of his registration as a lobbyist. Provides procedures should the board of ethics discover a public servant has failed to meet ethics training requirements.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=459536
Title: H.B. 6A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Makes various revisions to the code of conduct for the board of elementary and secondary education.
Pages 409-427: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0803/0803.doc
Title: LAC 28:I.Chapters 1-13
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to the practitioner teacher program alternative path to certification and minimum requirements. Revises program requirements. See Full Text Below.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v131/28v131.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.233
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/ |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 03/2008 |
P-12,
Community College |
Amends rules relating to the Students Teaching and Reaching (STAR) content standards curriculum framework. The STAR curriculum is designed to provide a career focus by offering an overview of the teaching profession. STAR students are provided with means and guidance for self-assessment, learning about others, and diversity within Louisiana classrooms. Students will gain a foundational knowledge of the history of education, both national and statewide. In addition, students will be provided meaningful field experiences, with an emphasis in critical shortage areas, designed to paint a realistic picture of the teaching profession.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/28v125/28v125.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXXV.1501, 1701, 1901-1915 (Bulletin 121)
Source: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/lac/ |
High School--GED (General Education Development) |
Signed into law 02/2008 |
P-12 |
The Department of Social Services, Office of Family Support establishes the GED Testing Program as a new TANF Initiative. Pursuant to Act 18 of the 2007 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, the agency is adopting the GED Testing Program to support and enhance the educational and job readiness skills of identified students at risk of dropping out or engaging in negative behaviors that can lead to dependency, out-of-wedlock pregnancies, imprisonment, etc. In addition, the program encourages building stable families by promoting GED attainment, leading to improved opportunities for employment. The program provides GED adult literacy services to prepare students for passage of the GED Test. Students' increased literacy levels may lead to the attainment of a Louisiana High School Equivalency Diploma upon passage of the GED, and possible entry into postsecondary education or employment opportunities including vocational skill trainings.
Pages 276-277: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0802/0802.doc
Title: LAC 67:III.5595
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Exit Exams |
adopted 01/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends chapters of Bulletin 118 - Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices relating to test security, assessment program overview, and graduation exit examination. Makes changes to several Sections of Chapter 3, language is removed from §305 that references supplemental materials in the test security policy, new language regarding "administrative errors" that can and do occur during the administration of statewide assessments in §312 is added, an inclusion of the new online assessment data system, Enhanced Assessment of Grade Level Expectations (EAGLE) is added to the policy along with the rules and guidelines for its correct use among educational personnel statewide, and language is updated about emergencies during testing in §315. Chapter 7, §701 chart is updated with the names of new implemented statewide assessments and Chapter 13, §1351 restructures the policy for clearer understanding of "transfer rules" for students' placement in grades as well as adds to the policy Chapter 13, §1355.A.8 for students who enroll in Louisiana schools and transfer multiple times during grades 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Pages 66-69: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0801/0801.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXI.303, 305, 312, 315, 701, 1351, and 1355
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends rules concerning Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System. Sets the target graduation rate for schools at 65%. Separates the current School Improvement set of labels and remedies into two separate sets: (1) the "Academically Unacceptable Schools (AUS)" set, which is time-bound, and (2) the "Subgroup Component Failure (SCF)" set, which is in line with requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Accordingly, criteria for schools entering, moving within, and exiting these various levels of AUS and SCF are detailed, as are the related remedies.
Page 2593-2600: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0712/0712.doc#_Toc185922091
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301, 517, 613, 707, 709, 903, 1301, 1601-1609, 1901,2101, 2301, 2401, 2501-2505, 2701- 2721, 3301-3303, 3503, 3507, 3701, and 3905.
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends sections of Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators concerning curriculum and instruction. Makes the following changes:
· Increases the Carnegie credits needed for a diploma from 23 to 24 by requiring a fourth year of math for high school graduation beginning with the freshman class of 2008-2009.
· Enrolls all incoming freshmen in 2008-2009 into the recommended LA Core 4 Curriculum which includes four units each of English, math, science, and social studies; one unit of visual arts, performing arts, or Fine Arts Survey; and two units of foreign language courses or two speech courses.
Pages 2601-2606 http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0712/0712.doc#_Toc185922093
Title: LAC 28:CXV:2319, 2341, 2353, 2361, and 2363
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Middle School |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends sections of Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators concerning the Carnegie Credit for Middle School Students. Provides students who are repeating the 8th grade because they have failed the mathematics and/or English language arts components of LEAP cannot take or receive Carnegie credit for any high school courses in a content area in which they scored Unsatisfactory on the eighth grade LEAP. Pages 2806-2807: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0712/0712.doc#_Toc185922094
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2321
Source: doa.louisiana.gov/osr |
Students--Records/Rights |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends sections of Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators concerning school health forms. Establishes standardized health forms to eliminate the duplication of information submitted to schools and school nurses on health information and screenings, allergies, illnesses, sports physicals, medication administration, and prescribed procedures. The Rule should have an overall positive impact on the health of school aged children in that it will ensure uniformity in the documentation of medical information submitted to schools and school nurses. Pages 2606-2607: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0712/0712.doc#_Toc185922094
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1145
Source: doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends sections of Bulletin 996 - Standards for Approval of Teacher Education Programs. Clarifies the process of moving from second-stage approval to national accreditation or state approval by new or reinstated public and private teacher preparation units. Pages 2607-2608: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0712/0712.doc#_Toc185922095
Title: LAC 28:XLV.205 and 207
Source: doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
In accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has amended Bulletin 111—The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII). The changes in §301 expand the criteria for schools considered at risk of failing to be furnished with accountability data during the preliminary release. The changes in §1101 simplify the criterion for schools with school performance scores of 120 or greater being exempt from Academic Assistance (AA) status. The changes for §1403 simplify the criterion for schools to enter AA and describe circumstances under which and procedures by which districts may request waivers of AA status to the Louisiana Department of Education. The changes for §§1405 and 1407 update the criterion by which schools enter and exit AA and reduce the number of higher-performing schools identified for AA with the expected outcome being that LEAs will focus more resources on their schools that are not adequately growing toward the 2014 goal of a School Performance Score of 120. There are no estimated implementation costs (savings) to state or local governmental units as a result of these changes.
Title: LAC 28:CXI.2007, Bulletin 118
Source: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Jobs for America's Graduates Louisiana Program to increase retention of at-risk students, capture out-of-school youth in need of education, provide an avenue for achieving academically, and assist students in earning recognized credentials that will make it possible for them to exit school and enter post-secondary education and/or the workforce. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc#_Toc183230287
Title: LAC 67:III.5591
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to Bulletin 741 - Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators:
1103: Allows students in danger of failing due to excessive absences to make up missed time in class sessions held outside the regular class time. The make-up sessions must be completed before the end of the current semester and all other policies must be met.
2323: Allows students who have failed a course to take a proficiency exam for that course. Prior policy did not allow students who had taken a course to take
a proficiency exam to earn credit for the course.
2324: Adds section allowing districts to implement credit recovery programs for students who have failed a course.
Note from Rules: These two revisions are the result of a recommendation from the High School Redesign Commission that policy changes be considered to help students who are failing or who are in danger of failing to recover credit. The revision to Section 1103 assists students who are in danger of failing due to
excessive absences. The revision to Section 2323 and the addition of Section 2324 provide ways for students to recover credit after they have failed a class.
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103, 2323, and 2324
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends sections of Bulletin 741 - Handbook for School Administrators.
503: Adds business manager to the list of certified personnel a district is required to hire. This addition was required by a new state statute.
2305: Requires schools to have an educational program commemorating Constitution Day. This addition to policy is based on federal law.
http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc#_Toc183230287
Title: LAC 28:CXV.503, 2305
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends section 507 of Bulletin 746, Standards for State Certification of School Personnel, concerning VTIE, CTTIE, and CTTIE-1 Certificates Renewal Guidelines. The change will allow individuals with a valid Louisiana teaching certificate to use three years of successful teaching experience in lieu of the mandatory three-hour
New Instructor Workshop requirement and thus to renew with only three hours of CTTIE coursework. Current guidelines for renewal of a VTIE, CTTIE, or CTTIE 1
certificate require an individual who holds a bachelor's degree in education to complete a mandatory three-hour New Instructor Workshop plus three additional hours of CTTIE coursework from an approved list of CTTIE coursework. This change will allow these individuals to use three years of successful teaching experience in lieu of the mandatory three-hour course. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc#_Toc183230287
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.507
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 11/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends a section of Bulletin 746, Standards for State Certification of School Personnel, concerning out-of-field authorization to teach (OFAT). This change in policy will allow an individual to renew an Out-of-Field Authority to Teach (OFAT) by attempting the required PRAXIS exam(s) for add-on certification in the area of the OFAT at least once per year. The current policy requires that an individual would, for renewal of an OFAT certificate, have to complete all PRAXIS exam(s) required for add-on certification twice per year. The results would be that an individual may have to attempt three exams per year instead of six exams per
year. http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0711/0711.doc#_Toc183230287
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.325
Source: doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Revises Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System (LAC Part Number LXXXIII).
Revises section 603 to include all students in the state-level cohort regardless or entry or exit dates.
Revises section 613 to clarify that schools cannot be awarded points for students designated as attendees if they are dropouts; changes the points awarded for School Performance Scores for students receiving TOPS award or completing TOPS programs; changes the points awarded for students receiving an academic endorsement.
Revises section 4313 to omit the District Responsibility Index label as a trigger for districts to enter District Improvement status; mandates timeframes for these districts to submit District Improvement Plans to the Louisiana Department of Education (LDE) and for the LDE to review require districts to implement these approved plans; describes sanctions for districts entering District Improvement in line with current law, requiring that they either implement a new curriculum, arrange for particular schools to come under public governance per R.S. 17:1990, or authorize students to transfer to a higher-performing public school operated
by another local educational agency after reaching an agreement with the other LEA.
See starting page 2031: http://doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0710/0710.doc#_Toc180395357
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.603, 613, and 4313
Source: www.lexis.com |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Consolidates and improves upon regulatory language regarding supplemental service providers.
Title: LAC 28:CXXV.Chapter 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends Bulletin 741 - Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators in order to update distance learning standards.
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2395
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Approved by voters 10/2007 |
P-12 |
(Ballot No. 3: LAS127 2007) Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that no benefit provision for members of any state retirement system having an actuarial cost shall be approved by the legislature unless a funding source providing new or additional funds sufficient to pay all such actuarial cost within ten years of the effective date of the benefit provision is identified in such enactment.
Title: Ballot No. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Approved by voters 10/2007 |
P-12 |
Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that no benefit provision for members of any state retirement system having an actuarial cost shall be approved by the legislature unless a funding source providing new or additional funds sufficient to pay all such actuarial cost within ten years of the effective date of the benefit provision is identified in such enactment.
Title: Ballot No. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Revises the use of Alternative Assessment results in accountability as suggested by the Department of Education's Technical Advisory Committee. Revises district accountability to better align with the high school redesign efforts initiated by the governor. Amends teacher certification indicator and 8th grade persistence indicator (based on a district's success at keeping 8th grade students enrolled in school).
Defines the requirements for exiting District Improvement in anticipation of districts' first opportunity to exit. Pages 3-5 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.4302 and 4313
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Updates career and technical education course offerings so that they are more aligned with national standards. Pages 6-8 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.Chapter 23
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows the Foreign Language Specialist Certificate PK-8 to be valid for six years due to changes in the visa requirements. Page 10 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.311
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
No Child Left Behind |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures for the department of education to handle complaints on issues related to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Pages 5-6 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.349
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Postsecondary Faculty--Compensation |
Issued 08/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Executive Order 15: http://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/15ExecOrderStateEmployeePay.pdf
Executive Order 17 amends Executive Order KBB 2007-15 to clarify its application to unclassified employees of registrars of voters; includes students and graduate assistants, faculty of public higher education institutions, employees of special schools, intermittent employees, seasonal employees and elected local or statewide officials. http://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/17ExecOrderAmendKBB200715StateEmployeePay.pdf
Title: E.O. 15 and 17
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Revises the requirements for add-on certification as a school librarian to allow three years of successful experience as a school librarian to substitute for the required three-semester-hour school librarian practicum. The change will allow more candidates to meet the add-on certification requirements for school
librarian and will increase the pool of certified school librarians in the state of Louisiana. Pages 10-11 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.673
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Revises the requirements for add-on certification as a school counselor. Allows three years of successful experience as a school counselor to substitute for the required three-semester-hour supervised practicum in a school setting. The change will allow more candidates to meet the add-on certification requirements for school counselor and will increase the pool of certified school counselors in the state of Louisiana. Pages 9-10 of 79: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.659
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Accountability--Rewards |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends the following Sections of Bulletin 111:
• §1301 Reward Eligibility: Changes one requirement for exemplary academic growth to 2.0 points improvement in a subgroup assessment index rather than growth in a subgroup performance score
• §4313 Corrective Actions: Adds detail for how school districts that have been identified for district improvement can exit corrective actions
• §4903 Local Superintendent and Board Responsibilities and §4905 Contracting and Employing a District Superintendent: Repeals both of these items, reflecting the legislature's repeal of C and D only of R.S. 17:10.6, Act 687, Reg. Session 2006.
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0707/0707RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.1301, 4313, 4903, and 4905
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
Vetoed 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Grants a non-refundable credit against individual income tax for elementary and secondary education tuition in an approved parochial and private elementary and secondary schools.
Bill: http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447637
Veto message: http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/07RS/veto/SB45v.pdf
Title: S.B. 45
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides that the state board of ethics must, on a regular basis, offer training on its computerized data management system, as well as educational materials detailing the procedures necessary to file such reports electronically. Directs the board to design and make available via the Internet training and educational materials on the code of governmental ethics; the campaign finance disclosure act; specific statutory provisions on lobbying the legislature; and statutory provisions on lobbying executive branch agencies.
Directs the board to publish all public charges, opinions, letters of advice and decisions of the board of ethics and its predecessors concerning all laws under the board's jurisdiction. Also directs the board to publish an index referencing each such charge, opinion, letter of advice and decision of the board of ethics and its predecessors to the specific legal citation(s) on which the charge, opinion, letter of advice or decision is based.
Starting with terms of office beginning January 1, 2008, provides that each statewide elected official, legislator and public service commissioner must receive a minimum of two hours of education and training on the code of governmental ethics and one hour of education and training on the campaign finance disclosure act, with at least one hour of the government ethics training delivered during the first year of the individual's term.
Adds that, beginning with the four-year period beginning January 1, 2012, and during each four-year period thereafter, each public servant subject to the provisions of the code of governmental ethics who is not a statewide elected official, legislator or public service commissioner, must receive a minimum of two hours of education and training on the code of governmental ethics. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449912
Title: H.B. 493
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Creates the Educational Leader Standards guide to identify the knowledge, skills, performances and dispositions of effective educational leaders. Pages 1-5 of http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0707/0707RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXVII.Chapters 1-5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 Finance |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Grants school readiness tax credits to individuals for child care expenses of children five and under, to child care providers, to child care directors and staff, and to businesses providing assistance for child care.
Provides the amount of the child care expense tax credit is based on the quality rating of the child care facility which the child attends, with a 200% reimbursement of the credit provided for such expenses in Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:297.4 http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=101769 for a five-star rated child care facility, a 150% reimbursement for a four-star facility, etc. Directs parents with multiple children to calculate each child's credit separately.
Provides the child care provider tax credit is based on the average monthly number of children who either participate in the Child Care Assistance Program administered by the office of family support or who are foster children, and who are attending a child care facility or facilities operated by the child care provider, multiplied by an amount based on the quality rating of each child care facility operated by the child care provider, with a five-star rated facility earning a $1,500 credit per eligible child, a four-star rated facility earning $1,250 per eligible child, etc.
Provides the credit for child care directors and staff must be based on the staff qualifications as defined in the department of social services state practitioner registry in Title 48 of the Louisiana Administrative Code, with a "level four" director/staff earning a $3,000 tax credit, a "level three" director/staff earning a $2,500 tax credit, etc. Provides that, beginning calendar year 2009, the tax credit amounts be adjusted annually by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
Provides a refundable credit against any Louisiana individual or corporation income tax or corporation franchise tax for the eligible business child care expenses supported by a business. Provides the credit must be the percentage of such eligible business child care expenses depending on the quality rating of the child care facility to which the expenses are related or the quality rating of the child care facility the child attends, with a five-star rated facility earning 20% of eligible business
child care expenses, a four-star rated facility earning 15% of eligible business child care expenses, etc. Provides for a maximum additional annual refundable credit of $5,000 against any Louisiana individual or corporation income tax or corporation franchise tax for the payment by a business of fees and grants to child care resource and referral agencies.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=451044
Title: S.B. 361
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides relative to minimum scores on specified tests that are required of certain home study students to be eligible for Tuition Opportunity Program for Students awards; provides relative to effectiveness; provides relative to the minimum cumulative high school grade point average required of certain students for Performance and Honors awards. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=450063
Title: H.B. 634
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Changes mandatory expulsion periods for certain student offenses; provides for student participation in appropriate rehabilitation or counseling programs; provides for student admission to regular and alternative education programs; relates to compliance monitoring; relates to local school board applications for related waivers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=451042
Title: S.B. 265
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Creates the crime of prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and a student who is at least 17 but less than 19; provides that such crime is committed when (1) an educator has sexual intercourse with such student, when the victim is not the spouse of the offender and is a student at the school where the educator is assigned, employed, or working at the time of the offense or (2) the educator commits any lewd or lascivious act upon or in the presence of the student or (3) touches certain body parts of the student. Provides that the student's consent or lack of knowledge of the student's age shall not be a defense to any violation of this section.
Defines "educator" as any administrator, coach, instructor, paraprofessional, student aide, teacher, or teacher aide at any public or private school, assigned, employed, or working at the school or school system where the victim is enrolled as a student on a full-time, part-time, or temporary basis.
Provides that an individual found guilty of the crime of prohibited sexual conduct between an educator and a student when the student is 17 years of age or older, but less than 19 years of age, must be fined up to $1,000, or imprisoned for up to 6 months, or both. Provides that for a second or subsequent offense, an offender may be fined up to $5,000 and must be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for 1-5 years.
Requires any educator having cause to believe that prohibited sexual conduct has taken place between an educator and student must immediately report such conduct to a local or state law enforcement agency. Provides immunity for a report made in good faith.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449962
Title: H.B. 969
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides for reemployment of retired school bus drivers; provides for contributions and employer reporting requirements. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449533
Title: S.B. 60
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires every school bus to be equipped with a crossing control device by January 1, 2008. Requires the state to reimburse local school boards that have expended funds for this purpose. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449875
Title: H.B. 157
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board, by the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, to implement a pilot program to provide for universal screening of K-3 students for characteristics of dyslexia and related disorders. The program must also provide for periodic progress monitoring of every student identified with dyslexia or a related disorder to assess progress toward established educational goals; appropriate remediation or intervention strategies to address any academic need or deficiency identified through the screening process or periodic progress monitoring; and training and professional development to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement specialized instructional interventions and strategies for students with dyslexia and related disorders.
Requires each district participating in the pilot to arrange for an external performance evaluation at the end of the 2007-2008 school year to assess the effectiveness of the program in the early identification of students with dyslexia and related disorders and in meeting the educational needs of such children. Directs the department, based on the results of the periodic process monitoring and the external performance evaluations, to make an interim report by March 2008 to the house and senate education committees on the progress made by each participating school system in implementing the pilot program, and a final report by August 15, 2008, that must include a determination of whether the program should be implemented on a statewide basis. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449550
Title: S.B. 160
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows for the issuance of an Extended Endorsement License (EEL) to individuals who hold standard state teaching certificates (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Type C, Type B, Type A, or Out-of-State), pass the current PRAXIS content exam(s) required for the area in which the EEL is requested, and present detailed prescriptions that identify any additional coursework and/or exams needed to complete requirements for the area/level certification endorsement. Allows the EEL to be renewed annually, upon completion of renewal requirements, for up to three years.
This license will ensure that individuals teaching in core content areas have fulfilled highly qualified requirements by passing content area examination(s) of PRAXIS. Pages 5-6 of 68: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0707/0707RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.314
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to reemployment of state retirees; provides reemployment privileges to any member of this system who retired pursuant to an early retirement provision, whose last eligible employment was with the state or an agency in a parish designated under the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act as eligible for individual assistance or individual and public assistance following hurricane Katrina or Rita and whose reemployment date occurs before a specified time. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449739
Title: S.B. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention--At-Risk Schools |
Signed into law 07/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides for a $1,000 individual income tax credit in 2007 and 2008 for teachers re-employed by a school board in certain parishes which have been impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Provides that, in order to qualify for the deduction, the public school classroom teacher must agree in writing to be employed as a public school classroom teacher for at least three years.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449950
Title: H.B. 847
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Grants the Recovery School District the same authority to procure services and property afforded to a city, parish, or other local public school system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=449273
Title: S.B. 154
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Adopted 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides information regarding addition of achievement level descriptors for iLEAP, which causes a reformatting of a chapter. Adds language regarding iLEAP accommodations for special populations (page 21 of 168). Pages 2- of 168: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0706/0706rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXI.1709-1729, 3306, and 3307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Gives permanent status to truancy and assessment and service centers (which were initially established through a pilot program). Deletes language directing the Families in Need of Services program to serve in a coordinating and facilitating capacity for the centers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447939
Title: S.B. 187
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of elementary and secondary education to develop, adopt, and provide for the implementation of a visual arts curriculum and a performing arts curriculum in public schools. Directs the board, during the 2007-2008 school year, to develop and adopt visual arts and performing arts curriculum guides consistent with the arts content standards. During the 2008-2009 school year, directs the board to provide professional development and training to teachers, school administrators, and professional practicing artists on the implementation of the curriculum guides. During the 2009-2010 school year, directs the board to implement on a pilot basis visual arts and performing arts curricula that are based on the curriculum guides. During the 2010-2011 school year, requires full implementation of the visual arts and performing arts curricula for all public K-8 students, and requires 60 minutes of instruction in the performing arts and 60 minutes instruction in the visual arts each week. Also during the 2010-2011 school year, requires that all public high schools provide instruction in the visual and performing arts, with such instruction given in accordance with the curriculum guides. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447932
Title: S.B. 299
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Directs the state department of education to hire a health and physical education coordinator not later than the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year to develop, implement, monitor compliance with, and provide technical assistance as needed on health and physical education curricula for all grade levels in the public elementary and secondary schools. Provides minimum qualifications the coordinator must possess.
Directs the coordinator to seek input from specified entities and agencies in the development and implementation of health and physical education curricula in the public schools. Directs the department to submit a report to the senate and eouse committees on education and on health and welfare regarding the status of health and physical education in the public schools, including findings and recommendations. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447946
Title: S.B. 362
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Sex Education |
Enrolled 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Requests the department of health and hospitals to provide for an evaluation of the Louisiana Governor's Program on Abstinence by an external, independent entity. Provides that the evaluation must include information on curriculum content, the extent of participation in various school districts, and program expenditures and income. Directs that the findings of the evaluation be reported to the legislature by January 1, 2008.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=441040
Title: H.C.R. 200
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that the name of the program for LA 4 classes is "The Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program". http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=442729
Title: H.B. 595
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the department of labor to establish or to contract with service providers or community service organizations to establish a comprehensive project return post-release skills program for recently released offenders. Establishes the goals and objectives of the program. Provides that the services offered through the program must include GED test preparation and academic enhancement. Directs the department of labor to promulgate rules to govern the program; requires such rules to provide procedures for monitoring of the program, including annual on-sit surveys. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447952
Title: S.B. 308
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Students |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Legislative Youth Advisory Council as an initiative under the administration of the state commission on civic education. Provides that the purpose of the council is to examine and facilitate communication between youth and the legislature on issues of importance to youth, including education, employment, strategies to increase youth participation in local and state government, safe environments for youth, substance abuse, underage drinking, emotional and physical health, poverty, litter and environmental control, driver's licenses, and youth access to state and local services.
Provides that the council has the following duties:
(1) To identify the concerns and needs of youth, and to advise and make recommendations to members of the legislature on proposed legislation and on policy matters related to youth.
(2) To collect, analyze, and provide information to the senate and house committees on education and any other legislative committees, commissions and task forces on issues related to youth.
(3) To participate in an annual seminar prior to the school year for council members regarding leadership, government and the legislature.
(4) To hold at least one public hearing each year for the purpose of receiving youth comment on issues of importance to youth and such other meetings at the call of the council chair.
(5) To submit an annual report of its activities, including any recommendations for proposed legislation, to the governor, the senate and house committees on education, and the commission.
Provides for the membership of the council, including the youth voting members and the advisory (nonvoting) members, which must include a member of the senate, a member of the house of representatives, the chairman of the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education, and the state superintendent of education, or his designee.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=447419
Title: S.B. 46
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that any teacher who holds a valid out-of-state teaching certificate, has at least four years of successful teaching experience in another state as determined by the board, and and has completed one year of employment as a teacher in a Louisiana nonpublic school approved by the board, is not required to take the teacher certification exam or submit exam scores from another state, provided specified criteria are met. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=448836
Title: H.B. 188
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
Adopted 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Changes the type and level of the teaching certificate required to be certified as an Educational Leader Level 1 (entry-level license required for school and/or district
leadership positions such as principal, superintendent, special education supervisors, etc.). Also reduces the required number of years of teaching experience from 5 to 3 years. Allows for two new alternate paths of certification for Educational Leader Level 1 applicants.
Note from administrative register: The revised policy will enhance the current educational leadership certification policy and will allow individuals to pursue certification as an educational leader through multiple standards-based, research-based pathways. Pages 1-5 of 49: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0705/0705rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.240, 703, 705, and 707
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Replaces District Responsibility Index with District Responsibility Indicators to provide a more specific picture of how districts are to be held accountable. (Details of the District Accountability Release required clarification because of the 2005 hurricanes.) Pages 1-3 of 45: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0704/0704rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.4301, 4302, 4310, 4311, 4313, 4315, 4503, and 4517
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Amends textbook adoption processes to come into compliance with U.S. Department of Education approval of IDEA, 2004. Directs that the state adopt materials that meet the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standards (NIMAS). Provides procedures for a public review process prior to textbook adoption.
Pages 3-6 of 45: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0704/0704rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XXXIII.301, 303, 319, 503, 723, and 2001
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Approves for advertisement revisions to Bulletin 118- Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices. Consolidates statewide test information. Provides easy access to that information. Incorporates guidelines for newly adopted statewide assessments. Adds new language to established assessment guidelines. Reflects the renaming of the division to the Division of Standards, Assessments, and Accountability. Pages 3-8 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXI.305 and Chapter 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Clarifies guidelines for the participation in alternate assessments for students with disabilities who cannot participate in regular assessments. Page 13 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XCVII.905
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Background Checks |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Requires any district, prior to hiring any employee, to request from the applicant's current or previous employer any documentation regarding any sexual misconduct engaged in by the applicant involving a student. Also requires the applicant's current or previous employer to provide any such information to the district that has requested it. Provides immunity to any district or school employee who, in good faith, discloses such information to the district requesting it. Prohibits any district from hiring any applicant who does not sign a disclosure and release statement. Allows a district to hire an applicant on a conditional basis pending the hiring board's review of any information obtained. Provides that any such information can only be used by the district considering the applicant for employment for the purpose of evaluating the applicant's qualifications for employment. Prohibits the disclosure of any such information to anyone who is not directly involved in
evaluating the applicant's qualifications for employment. Makes the unauthorized disclosure of such information a misdemeanor.
Provides a definition of sexual misconduct, which includes any activity directed toward establishing a sexual relationship such as sending intimate letters, engaging in sexualized dialogue in person, via the internet, in writing or by telephone, making suggestive comments or dating a student.
Page 10 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.501
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Adds Database Programming with PL/SQL, Java Programming, Database Design and Programming and Digital Media I/II to the computer/technology courses that may fulfill the 1 unit computer/technology requirement for an optional career area of concentration. Pages 8-9 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2319
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that grade 8 students wishing to take a course for high school credit must as a course prerequisite demonstrate mastery of the eighth grade grade-level expectations in that content area by passing an exam developed by the department of education. Pages 8-10 of 118: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.337, 1121, 2301, 2319, 2321, 2357, 2363
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Amends to incorporate Acts 64 and 65 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2005 concerning the TOPS initial and continuing eligibility requirements; Provides waivers of certain TOPS initial eligibility requirements for students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita who will graduate from high school or complete state board-approved home study programs during the 2006-2007 academic year. http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0703/0703rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:IV.703, 705, 803, and 805
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Makes various changes to state assessment system. Creates end-of-course tests, to be phased in over a period of six years starting in fall 2007, in the following:
1. Algebra I;
2. Geometry;
3. English I;
4. English II;
5. Biology;
6. American History;
7. Civics; and
8. Free Enterprise.
Sets limitations on the public release of assessment data when such a release might compromise student confidentiality. Amends test security policies. Amends policies related to erasure analysis on state assessments. Also amends policies to address suspected violations of test security and troubling content in written assessment responses. Adds provision regarding administrative errors by school personnel that result in a question regarding the security of the test or the accuracy of the test data.
Amends provisions related to English language development assessments for English language learners (ELLs) and assessment of students with disabilities, including assessment accommodations for ELLs and students with disabilities.
Provides that if a student is expelled from school and is not enrolled in any type of alternative program or receiving any services from the district, the parent may make a timely request that the student be tested and the district must make arrangements to test the student.
Pages 7- of 50: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0702/0702rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXI.Chapters 1, 3, 5, 18, 23, 27, 33, and 35
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Makes changes to the state accountability system to take advantage of new and existing flexibility outlined in guidance for No Child Left Behind and to address situations, including changes necessitated in response to the hurricanes of 2005, which were not considered when the accountability policy was initially written. Provides that a school in which a repeating 4th grade student or Option I 8th grade student scores at a higher achievement level on a LEAP test of math, English language arts, science or social studies than any previous attempt (of the same test) will receive 50 incentive points per improved subject in its accountability index. Allows a student to earn a maximum of 200 incentive points for his/her school. Also provides that a 4th or 8th grade student in a summer school program who scores at a higher achievement level on a LEAP test of math or English language arts than any previous attempt (of the same test) will earn 50 incentive points per improved subject.
Provides methodology for calculating a 9-12 assessment index. Provides that scores of an English language learner who has been enrolled in a U.S. school for less than one year not be included in school performance score calculations. Amends language regarding the annual measurable objective (AMO), safe harbor, inclusion of alternate assessment results and determinations of a student's proficiency in English. Amends provisions awarding schools and districts a one year exclusion from the subgroup component in accountability due to a natural disaster.
Pages 4-6 of 50: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0702/0702rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.307, 409, 515, 703-707, 3905, 4001, and 4527
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Adds new language in Chapter 17 regarding statewide assessments. Updates Integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP) (Chapter 17) and Louisiana Alternate Assessment, Level 2 (LAA 2) (Chapter 20) to provide educators with finalized information about these new statewide assessments. Provides details about test design, test format, achievement levels, achievement level descriptors, performance standards, and content standards.
Pages 17-28 of 50: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0702/0702rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXI.Chapter 17 and 20
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Special Populations--Military |
Adopted 02/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows the issuance of an ancillary ROTC certificate to an individual who has retired from the active duty in the military or who has been officially recommended by the appropriate branch of the military service, with certification by the appropriate Department of Defense unit, to serve as a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps instructor (ROTC). Page 33 of 50: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0702/0702rul.pdf
Repromulgated August 2007 (page 9 of 79): http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Transition made to new accountability system that includes iLEAP and Graduation Index. Page 1: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 303
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Adjusts accountability policy to more effectively address conditions imposed by the hurricanes of 2005 and implementation of a new testing program. Page 2 of 67: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.301 and 4527
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Adopted 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Raises accountability levels among adult education programs and ensures similar concepts are taught at appropriate educational levels throughout the state. Page 3-11 of 67 http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0611/0611RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXIX.Chapter 1-11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Issued 11/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides an allocation from the 2006 ceiling to be used to finance student loans which, if the student meets certain timely payment requirements, will have interest rates below the interest rates established by the U.S. Department of Education. http://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/docs/46exe2006-BondAlloc-LPFA-StudentLoans.pdf
Title: E.O. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education--Federal Law/Regulations |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Reverts back to having the state board rather than the state superintendent withhold federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) when continuing noncompliance with IDEA is noted in a local school district. Pages 58-59 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0610/0610RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XCI.107, 109, and 309 (Bulletin 1922_
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Aligns PRAXIS PPST scores with those of the University of Louisiana System in score requirements for reading, writing and math, effective July 2007. Also raises minimum scores in those areas effective July 2010. These changes raise standards for entry into alternate certification programs and for certification as a teacher in Louisiana. Pages 55-58 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0610/0610RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.241
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Allows prospective teachers to use ACT composite score of 22 or SAT combined verbal and math score of 1030 as alternative to taking PRAXIS I PPST exams. Pages 52-55 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0610/0610RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
The first update in many years. Identifies all certification guidelines for Louisiana school employees and administrators. Pages 1-52 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0610/0610RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.Chapters 1-10 (Bulletin 746)
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov/ |
Finance--District |
Approved by voters 09/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes a constitutional amendment to provide that no law, unless enacted by two-thirds of the elected members of each house of the legislature, requiring increased expenditures for any purpose shall be applicable to a city, parish, or other local public school board except under certain circumstances; provides for exceptions to such prohibition; specifies an election for submission of the proposition to electors and provide a ballot proposition. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms4&rqsdta=093006
Title: Amendment 9
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Approved by voters 09/2006 |
Postsec. |
Proposes an amendment to the constitution to authorize the investment in stocks of up to 35% of the state-funded permanently endowed funds of a public or private college or university. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms4&rqsdta=093006
Title: Amendment 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Approved by voters 09/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes a Constitutional amendment to grant to the Central Community School System in East Baton Rouge Parish the same authority granted parishes, including funds for the minimum foundation fund, school books, instructional materials and the raising of local revenues for the support of elementary and secondary schools; provides for equal educational opportunities; prohibits use of state dollars to discriminate in providing educational opportunity for all students.
Title: Amendment 8
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Designed to address the impact of natural disasters on schools/districts ability to meet the objectives of the accountability system. Creates one-year waiver from accountability for "severe impact" schools and districts, as defined in rule. Also establishes provisions for severe impact schools following a one-year disaster waiver; directs the department of education to provide specific entry and exit codes for students displaced by natural disaster; establishes assessment and graduation rate indices for displaced students in limited impact schools; and offers schools and districts impacted by a natural disaster a one year exclusion from the subgroup component in accountability. Pages 1-3 of 55: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0608/0608RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.Chapter 45
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Updates Career and Technical course offerings to make these more aligned with national standards. Pages 3-5 of 55: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0608/0608RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2319, 2377, and 2387
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies eligibility requirements for issuance of Educational Leader certificates allowing more effective implementation of new Educational Leader Certification Structure. Page 5 of 55: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0608/0608RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.507
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Private Schools |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Specifies the process for obtaining school approval, including how long schools must be in existence before they can apply for approval. Changes in nonpublic instructional staff policy provide needed clarity and specificity. Pages 5-6 of 55: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0608/0608RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXIX.109 and 303
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Updates Career and Technical course offerings to be more aligned with national standards. http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0607/0607RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXVII.Chapters 1-7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows an immediate family member of a school board member or of a superintendent in a parish with a population of 26,000 or less to be promoted to an administrative position if such family member has the appropriate qualifications and certifications for such a position. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406376
Title: H.B. 675
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health--Mental Health |
Signed into law 07/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires local public school boards to adopt policies prohibiting teachers from:
(1) Recommending that a student be administered a pyschotropic drug.
(2) Specifying or identifying any specific mental health diagnosis for a student.
(3) Using a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of a psychotropic drug to a student or to a student's psychiatric evaluation, screening, or exam as grounds for prohibiting the student from attending any class or participating in any school-related activity or as the sole basis of accusations of child abuse or neglect against the parent.
Provides that a district-employed registered nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, or an appropriately credentialed mental health professional or teacher may recommend that a student be evaluated by an appropriate medical practitioner; that a teacher or other certified employee may suggest a student be assessed or
evaluated by qualified district employees; and that a school or district employee may discuss any aspect of a student's behavior or academic progress with the student's parent or any other school/district employee. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406367
Title: H.B. 234
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Community College |
Requires and provides incentives for high schools and postsecondary institutions to maximize the shared use of facilities, technology, faculty, and other resources to provide articulated and reciprocal technical training to high school students and recent high school dropouts age 16-21.
Defines "shared student" as any secondary student who is at least 16 and is enrolled as a regular education student in a public high school and enrolled in a technical training program at a community or technical college. Defines "technical training" as training based on national standards of performance and for which articulated postsecondary technical college credit and Carnegie unit credit toward high school graduation are reciprocally provided for successful completion of units of training regardless of whether the training occurred in a community or technical college or high school.
Requires state board of education and the board of supervisors of community and technical colleges to establish by January 1, 2007 a basis for schools to award postsecondary technical college credit and high school credit for units taken in either a technical college or high school. Requires the agreement to include:
(1) A description of students most likely to benefit from the dual enrollment program, and to make encouraging such students' participation in the program a main focus of partnership agreements between local boards and community/technical colleges.
(2) List of courses that can be most effectively offered on a dual enrollment basis, taking into account courses have been effectively offered on a dual enrollment basis across the state, the availability of courses, access to courses, preparation necessary for such courses, and other information relevant to making workable, desirable, and effective options available to potential dropouts.
(3) An evaluation of the high school and postsecondary resources and facilities available and applicable to dual enrollment partnerships. Requires such evaluation to include information regarding the best practice for high schools and postsecondary institutions to most effectively share such facilities and resources.
(4) An evaluation of the financial resources available to support the costs of dual enrollment partnerships, including funding sources that are public and private, K-12 and postsecondary, and state, federal, and local.
(5) Recommendations about a financing scheme that is adequate to provide high quality programming for students and meet the needs of participating high schools and postsecondary institutions.
Requires the final basis to be sent to all local boards and each public high school not under the jurisdiction of a local board, and to all community and technical colleges. Requires every community and technical college to notify every public high school in its service area of the institution's technical training programs, and to meet with appropriate local board representatives and representatives of local high schools not under the jurisdiction of a local board to establish articulation agreements aimed at enrolling at least 10% of the potential dropouts identified by the local board. Requires every local board and every high school not under the jurisdiction of a local board whose mission includes technical training to meet with their local community and technical colleges to implement technical training programs for shared students, with the goal of enrolling at least 10% of the potential dropouts identified by the local board.
Directs the state board, during the 2007-2008 school year, to select at least two such partnerships to undertake sharing at least 10% of the potential dropouts identified by the local board in the high schools under its jurisdiction and providing for the dual enrollment of such students. Directs the state board and the board of supervisors to provide assistance and support to the piloting partnerships. Directs the participating schools and institutions to report the effect of the implementation on students, the difficulties of such partnership, and all other relevant information to the board of supervisors and the state board. Authorizes the state board, based on information gathered during the pilot year, to extend the pilot and increase the number of partnerships for a second school year, or scale dual enrollment partnerships up to include any number of partnerships that appear viable and supportable.
Provides that by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year or as soon as funding is available, any eligible student age 16-21 must have the opportunity to be simultaneously enrolled in high school and in a technical training program at a community or technical college, in addition to any other option available to such student to gain such training. Specifies that to be eligible to participate in such a program, a student must have an up-to-date career option program plan, be enrolled in a public high school and not suspended or expelled, and if a minor, have written parental permission.
Requires local boards to establish systems to share postsecondary students with community or technical colleges in order to provide access for such students to the facilities, resources, and faculty of any technical training program existing at any such school or to provide any academic classwork to such students in a manner that does not jeopardize the safe and appropriate operation of a high school. Directs the state board to estabish rules and guidelines, including on (1) incorporating programs for alternative and recognized completer programs to high school graduation such as GED diploma completion, into a range of programming available to shared students and (2) local board/community or technical college agreements permitting community or technical college students to enroll in a
program or class offered on the high school campus.. Directs the board of supervisors to adopt rules, including on providing assistance to local boards and leadership in the development of the minimum standards of technical and skill programs in order for such programs to meet the standard necessary to be included in an industry certification program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=405975
Title: S.B. 749
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires local boards, prior to hiring any employee, to sign sign a statement that:
(1) Provides procedures for the disclosure of information by the applicant's current or previous employer, if such employer is a public school board, on all instances of sexual misconduct with students the applicant committed.
(2) Releases the applicant's current or previous employer, if such employer is a public school board, and any school employee acting on behalf of such employer from any liability for providing any such information.
Requires local boards to request information in (1) above prior to hiring an applicant. Requires current or previous employer, within 20 days of receipt of request, to make available to the hiring school board copies of all documents in the applicant's personnel file relative to such instances of sexual misconduct, if any.
Directs the state board, by September 1, 2006, to adopt rules and regulations to define "sexual misconduct." http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406247
Title: H.B. 1082
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board to provide technical assistance to any district with fewer than 5,000 students requesting assistance in determining the potential
financial impact of any proposed charter school on the operation of the system.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=402943
Title: S.B. 701
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Family Living Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires inclusion of adoption awareness in health course or another course required for high school graduation. Provides that adoption awareness is required instruction in nonpublic secondary schools in a manner that is the sole discretion of the nonpublic secondary school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=402928
Title: S.B. 111
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--International Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes in law a program to promote the value and importance of geography in schools through a committed and cooperative effort among agencies involved in higher education, K-12 education, and the National Geographic Society of Washington, D.C.
Provides the program must consist of activities designed to improve geography education, including the following pursuits conducted by Louisiana Geography Education Alliance:
(a) Providing professional development opportunities to for K-12 throughout the state, including out-of-state summer institutes provided by other alliances and the National Geographic Society.
(b) Sponsoring master teachers to conduct workshops at Northwestern State University or other selected sites throughout the state for Louisiana teachers.
(c) Purchasing classroom materials developed by the National Geographic Society and distributing them throughout schools in the state.
(d) Holding a yearly conference for K-12 teachers that imports hundreds of teachers.
(e) Distributing information related to geography and social studies education via an electronic mail distribution list as needed throughout the year.
(f) Providing Internet access to geography lesson plans, related geography websites, professional development events, alliance activities, and the national geography standards through a Louisiana Geography Education Initiative Program (LaGEIP) Web site.
Establishes in law a regional partnership program to carry out specified activities related to geography education. Directs the legislature to make an annual appropriation to LaGEIP to the extent funds are available.
Creates the Louisiana Geography Education Initiative Program Council to approve activities selected for LaGEIP sponsorship and other LaGEIP projects and programs, and to establish rules and procedures for the conduct of the LaGEIP and the council in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403764
Title: S.B. 489
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Increases the membership of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Commission to add nonvoting members chosen from state colleges and universities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399304
Title: H.B. 152
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases limit on appropriations to Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Board of Regents for administrative costs related to the Quality Education Support Fund. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406224
Title: H.B. 591
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Recognizes that the parish of Cameron has suffered wide-spread devastation and crippling disruption from the effects of Hurricane Rita prohibiting normal recovery and restoration. Creates the Parishwide School District of the Parish of Cameron. Provides that the special district is to be administered by a board of directors composed of the president of the Cameron Parish School Board, the superintendent of the Cameron Parish School System, and three other directors selected by the school board of such parish, who themselves may be members of the school board. Authorizes the special district to levy only for the 2006 tax year a property tax not to exceed 10 mills for the purpose of giving additional support to public schools in the parish. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403725
Title: S.B. 32
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires all city, parish or other local public school boards to provide certain healthcare information on meningococcal disease to parents and guardians. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399132
Title: S.B. 448
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires students admitted to a postsecondary education institution for the first time to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease as a condition of registration for courses at such institution. Requires every public and nonpublic postsecondary education institution to provide detailed information on the risks associated with meningococcal disease and the availability, effectiveness, and known contraindications of any required or recommended vaccine against meningococcal disease to each admitted student or to the student's parent or guardian if the student is a minor.
Offers waiver to any student who signs a waiver stating that he/she has received and reviewed the information on meningococcal disease and its vaccine and has chosen not to be vaccinated against meningococcal disease for religious or other personal reasons, or who meets specified other conditions. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399305
Title: H.B. 154
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Directs the secretary of the department of health and hospitals to establish a priority of cohorts of students to be vaccinated in order to minimize the possibility of an outbreak of meningococcal disease. Provides that the first priority cohorts are first-time freshmen and students living in on-campus residential facilities. Requires such students to present satisfactory evidence of current vaccination beginning with registration for the Fall 2006 semester, unless the secretary determines that an insufficient supply of vaccine is available. Requires schedule to provide for the time by which immunization must be required for these students in the event of an insufficient supply and for other cohorts of students to present such evidence to register for classes. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406234
Title: H.B. 768
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Full text of language on pages 8-20 of 62: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0606/0606RUL.pdf
Changes define/outline/clarify the following:
--school performance score goals (page 8-10 of 62);
--calculating the SPS (School Performance Scores) component (pp 11-12 of 62);
--incentive points for a school in which a repeating 4th or 8th grade student scores at a higher achievement level on a LEAP test of math, English language arts, science or social studies than the previous spring (p of 62);
--calculating a K-8 assessment index (pp 12-13 of 62);
--calculating a 9-12 assessment index (p 13 of 62);
--the state assessments in which students in grades 3-11 will participate in annually (p 13 of 62);
--inclusion of schools (pp 13-14 of 62);
--pairing/sharing of schools with insufficient test data (p 14 of 62);
--growth targets (pp 14-15 of 62);
--defining, determining a cohort for, documenting and calculating a graduation index (pp 15-16 of 62);
--calculating a graduation rate (p 17 of 62);
--subgroup component indicators and failing the subgroup component (pp 16-17 of 62);
--safe harbor (pp 16-17 of 62);
--levels of academic assistance (p 17 of 62);
--levels of school improvement, entry into and exit from school improvement, school improvement requirements and state support at each level (pp 17-18 of 62);
--recovery school district (p 19 of 62);
--inclusion of alternative education students and option considerations (p 19 of 62);
--valid data considerations and NRT/CRT data (pp 19-20 of 62);
--attendance and dropout/exit data (p 20 of 62);
--and subgroup component adequate yearly progress (p 20 of 62).
Chapter 45, Disaster Consideration for School and District Accountability, is a proposed amendment designed to address the impacts of Hurricane Katrina and Rita and other disasters that may occur.
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 21, 24, 35, 41,43, and 45
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Repeals R.S. 17:10.6(C) and (D). Section (C) limited the power of local boards of districts identified as academically in crisis. Section (D) removed the power of such boards to contract or employ a superintendent or terminate the contract or employment of the incumbent superintendent. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406149
Title: H.B. 310
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Evaluation/Economic Benefits |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requests the governor and commissioner of administration to include in the FY 2007-2008 executive budget additional funding for adequately staffing, equipping, and evaluating state early childhood education programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403578
Title: H.R. 132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Teachers Education Trust Fund Incentive Program to provide additional financial incentives for qualified classroom teachers to locate and teach in low-performing schools in disadvantaged and under-served geographical areas of the state.
Defines eligible teacher as one who:
(a) Holds a valid Louisiana teaching certificate and teaches in the field of certification.
(b) Has not had a certification or licensure requirement waived by the state on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis.
(c) Has the equivalent of an academic major, or has passed the Louisiana licensing content-specific Praxis exam, or has earned a master's degree in the content area taught.
(d) Meets the definition of a highly qualified teacher under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Provides that awards to participating teachers may not exceed $3,000 a year for 3 years, and may be used (but are not required to be used) to offset the teacher's qualified student debt.
Provides that the program must be administered by the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=402968
Title: S.B. 737
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Provides tuition and fee exemptions at public postsecondary education institutions for persons previously in the state's foster care program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406264
Title: H.B. 1287
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust Program. Provides for definitions and provides relative to the education savings accounts, including the investment of checks and electronic funds transfers and the deposit of any increase in the value of such accounts under certain circumstances. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399346
Title: H.B. 780
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes investment in stocks of portion of endowed funds of a public college or university. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406241
Title: H.B. 830
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Creates an additional exemption from registration and licensing requirements for colleges; exempts from registration and licensure any institution that was a member of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities on Jan. 1, 2001. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397222
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Eliminates any authority for the board of regents to confirm the appointments of presidents of a postsecondary system or a college/university . http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403766
Title: S.B. 530
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that the crime of assault on a school teacher includes making statements threatening physical harm to a school teacher and requires certain disciplinary actions to be taken when a public elementary or secondary school student is accused of violating the criminal statute or school disciplinary rules, or both, by committing an assault on a school employee. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406257
Title: H.B. 1260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to deconsolidation. Creates Central Community School System and separate governing board as separate from East Baton Rouge Parish School System. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=398044
Title: H.B. 815
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides for government immunity of the state and other political subdivisions during and in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Adds that no student, employee, volunteer, parent, or person attending or visiting a school within an area affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita may have a cause of action for damages against the local school district in the affected area for failure to warn, notify, remediate, clean-up, or repair, in its decisions or operations in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, except in the event of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the school district in the affected area. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403027
Title: H.B. 892
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires school systems to employ or share by agreement school board business managers or chief financial officers who meet qualifications established by the state board. Gives any business manager or chief financial officer who does not meet the requirements established in state board rules seven years from the date the rules are published to meet the required qualifications. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=400970
Title: S.B. 539
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Recovery School District to sell, exchange, or lease school property or buildings over which it has the rights of ownership to the governing authority of a state board-approved school which has need for property as the result of a hurricane. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397833
Title: S.B. 308
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
Postsec. |
Defines "design and construction oversight" as (i) the right to review and approve plans and specifications prior to the start of construction and to require such changes as may be necessary to comply with applicable building codes, space standards, where appropriate, and standards ensuring quality of construction, and (ii) the right to conduct periodic inspections during construction to ensure that work is being performed in compliance with the approved plans and specifications. Directs each higher education management board to adopt proposed space standards and quality standards on or before January 1, 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=403845
Title: H.B. 418
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides for incentive wages and work programs for juvenile defendants; provides that the office of youth developoment has control over all aspects of juvenile offender training and education; provides that juvenile offenders may be compensated for work performed during work training programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397982
Title: H.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends the deadline from July 2007 to 2013 for certain school counselors to have obtained an initial credential from the National Board for Certified Counselors in order to receive a mandated salary adjustment. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=397932
Title: H.B. 167
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends the deadline from 2007 to 2013 for teachers to have obtained initial certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in order to receive a mandated salary adjustment. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399307
Title: H.B. 175
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides for interruptions in Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) entry and DROP participation periods occasioned by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; provides certain terminated members to adjust the period applicable to their participation in the plan; provides for participation upon reemployment. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406102
Title: H.B. 178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to the Teachers' Retirement System with respect to payment of benefits not due to a member; provides further that the right to collect such overpayment due to administrative error by the system shall apply only to amounts paid during the 36-month period immediately preceding the date notice of such error is sent to the member, except in the case of fraud. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=404817
Title: H.B. 1362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows any service retiree of the Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System to be rehired on a full-time basis, in any position covered by the system, including part-time, temporary, or substitute employee positions. Repeals language that bars earnings for any 12-month period from exceeding 50% of the employee's average compensation for such period. Replaces with language providing that reemployed retiree earning more than 50% of average compensation must repay earnings in excess of 50% of average compensation for the fiscal year to the retirement system, either through direct reimbursement to the system or by suspension of benefits. Provides, however, that the repayment amount must not exceed the amount of retirement benefits received by the retiree for the fiscal year. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=405955
Title: S.B. 88
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to documents placed in a school employee's personnel file on or before September 1987. Permits the school employee to rebut and respond to such documents if, at any time, a city, parish, or other local public school board takes any personnel action against a school employee based upon any document that was placed in the employee's personnel file. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=399384
Title: H.B. 1184
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires that a local school board employee be provided paid leave to attend meetings of certain public entities on which the employee serves as an elected or appointed member. Provides that public entities include the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana; the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System; the state board of education; and any task force, commission, or other advisory body established by the state board of education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406321
Title: H.B. 800
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Makes the textbook review process (prior to statewide adoption) more citizen-friendly. Increases the time period allotted for review, the number of locations available to make such review, and number of samples available for such review and to be checked out. Requires samples of textbooks to be made available to be checked out and the department of education to post textbook review information on its Web site. Four samples of each textbook under consideration are to be made available for inspection and review at each such library and three of the four must be made available to be checked out. Requires the Department of Education to post a press release on its web site until the end of the review period. (Act 804)
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=406354
Title: H.B. 1334
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges to work with Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to improve linkages and career and technical education pathways between high schools and community and technical colleges. Requires collaboration to include:
(a) Aligning existing career and technical education programs to more industry-driven programs.
(b) Expanding career and technical education programs and related opportunities for high school students.
(c) Creating articulated courses and programs between high schools and community and technical colleges.
Title: H.B. 1023
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes Content Standards Curriculum Framework for Students Teaching and Reaching (STAR) to serve as the one teacher preparation course to be used by all secondary teachers in Louisiana. Pages 4-8 of 75: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0605/0605rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXV.101, 301-317
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Defines acts that constitute the crime of unlawful residence or presence of a sex offender. Acts include:
(1) The physical presence of the offender in, on, or within 1,000 feet of the school property of any public or private elementary or secondary school or the 13
physical presence in any school transportation vehicle or at a school-related activity when persons under the age of eighteen years are present on the school property or in a school vehicle.
(2) The offender establishing a residence within 1,000 feet of any public or private elementary or secondary school.
Provides that these provisions are not violated if the offender has permission to be present on school premises from the district superintendent in the case of a public school or the principal or headmaster in the case of a private school. Provides that if the superintendent grants an offender permission to be present on public school property, the superintendent must notify the principal at least 24 hours in advance of the offender's visit. Requires this notification to include the nature of the visit and the date and time in which the sex offender will be present in the school. Requires the offender to notify the principal's office upon arrival on the school property and upon departing from the school. If the offender is to be present in the vicinity of children, requires the offender to remain under the direct supervision of a school official.
Provides that any superintendent, principal, or school master who acts in good faith in compliance with these provisions is immune from civil or criminal liability for his actions in connection with any injury or claim arising from an offender being present on school property pursuant to permission granted by that superintendent, principal, or school master.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=391471
Title: H.B. 882
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides with respect to treatment programs for inmates; encourages voluntary participation by inmates in certified treatment and rehabilitation programs, including but not limited to basic education, job skills training, values development and faith-based initiatives, therapeutic programs, and treatment programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=392170
Title: H.B. 377
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Extends the deadline from 2006 to 2013 for certain school psychologists to have obtained an initial credential from the National School Psychology Certification Board in order to be eligible for a salary increase. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=395373
Title: H.B. 210
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides for public employees placed on involuntary furlough or leave without pay (LWOP) due to a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency to continue
to earn service credit in their retirement systems by making employee and employer contributions. Allows these purchases to be paid to either Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) or the employer and then remitted to TRSL. Pages 73-74 of 75: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0605/0605rul.pdf
Title: LAC 58:III.401
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Adopted 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows distributions from public pension plan qualified underprovisions of Internal Revenue Code, Section 401(a). Made for retirees residing in Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma disaster areas. Page 74-75 of 75: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0605/0605rul.pdf
Title: LAC 58:III.510
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures for hospital/homebound instruction for a student who is enrolled in regular or special education and who, as a result of health care treatment, physical illness, accident, or the treatment thereof, is temporarily unable to attend school. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.1103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Revises current course offerings, bringing them in line with current industry standards. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf (page 5 of 106)
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2377
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Deletes the ISLCC School Leaders Portfolio as a requirement to move from a Level 1 to a Level 2 Educational Leadership certificate. Deletes the requirement for an Educational Leader Level 2 and Level 3 to continue to update the educational leader portfolio to renew this certification. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf (starting page 5 of 106)
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes and expands upon procedures for identifying districts not making adequate yearly progress (AYP), in accordance with R.S.
17:10.1. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf (starting page 1 of 106)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXII.4301 and 4901-4911
Source: www.doa.state.la.us |
P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds the Early Childhood PK-3 certification through the Practitioner Teacher Program alternate program structure. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf (starting page 7 of 106)
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires an individual coming from another state, who is applying for a Louisiana teaching certificate, to have completed a teacher preparation program in another state. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0604/0604RUL.pdf (starting page 6 of 106)
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Permits seniors who wish to retest for diploma endorsements to test during the fall retest. Provides guidelines and rules about administrative error that may occur during statewide assessment. Provides guidelines and rulesregarding cell phones and other electronic devices usage during the administration of statewide assessments. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0603/0603RUL.pdf (beginning page 5 of 57)
Title: LAC 28:CXI.312, 316 and 1351
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Amends Bulletin 118--Statewide Assessment Standards and Practices.
(1) Revise the names of two of Louisiana's statewide assessment tests by removing for the 21st Century from each. Graduation Exit Examination (GEE) and
Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP).
(2) Adds Chapter 20, Louisiana Alternate Assessment, Level 2 (LAA2) explaining a new test assessment instrument for special education students.
(3) Revises the name of Louisiana Alternate Assessment (LAA) chapter 19, to Louisiana Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1).
(4) Relocates information about the assessment programs The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) and Iowa Tests of Educational Development (ITED) from §107.D to
§107.H. The Integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (iLEAP) will replace these tests in §107.D.
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0602/0602RUL.pdf (starting page 6 of 39)
Title: LAC 28:CXI.107, 305, 307, 309, 313, 315, 701, 1101, 1115, 1141, 1151,1153, 1301, 1313, 1335, 1345, 1347, 1349, 1351, 1355, 1501, 1701, 1901, 2001,2501, 2701, 3303, 3305, 3307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Office of Family Support to enter into Memoranda of Understanding or contracts to establish Truancy Assessment and Service Centers designed to identify, assess, and intervene to ensure that children in kindergarten through sixth grade attend school regularly. These services meet the TANF goal to prevent and
reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock births by providing counseling to children and family members designed to assure regular school attendance and improved academic and behavioral outcomes. Specifies that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families.
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0602/0602RUL.pdf (pages 37 and 38)
Title: LAC 67:III.5539
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Delays from 2006 to 2007 the election of school board members in certain parishes and reduces from four years to three years the terms of those elected in 2007 in order to resume terms and election concurrent with all other systems, except Orleans, beginning 2010. Specifies the extension of the terms of school board members in any such school system until Jan. 1 following the election of their successors in 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=363748
Title: S.B. 2A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us |
High School |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides statewide policy and guidance for Senior Projects in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an Academic Endorsement. Requires every Senior Project to include:
a. research paper of 8 to 10 pages on an approved topic of the student's choice;
b. product or service related to the research requiring at least 20 hours of work;
c. portfolio that documents and reflects the Senior Project process;
d. presentation to a panel of three to five adults from the community and school.
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0602/0602RUL.pdf (page 13 of 39)
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2320
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Allows the suspension and resumption of Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) participation for public school system employees terminated due to a reduction-in-force necessitated by Hurricane Katrina or Rita.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=363761
Title: S.B. 48A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Adopted 01/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides purchase of service credit for involuntary furlough or leave without pay due to a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency.
Title: LAC 58:III.401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Revises high stakes testing policy for students with disabilities to meet federal requirements.
Page 39 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XXXIX.503 and 1301
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes guidelines for the participation of students with disabilities in alternate assessments who cannot participate in regular assessment.
Page 38 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XCVII.901-907
Source: www.doa.state.la.us/osr, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows the Superintendent of Education to waive the final component of the General Education Exam for student with disabilities if the Department of Education determines that the student's disability significantly impacts their ability to pass the final required component.
Page 6 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
Title: LAC 28: CXV.2319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows Advanced Placement (AP) European History and American Government courses to meet graduation requirements.
Page 8 of 106 http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2319 and 2363
Source: www.doa.state.la.us, |
Leadership |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Authorizes certification as a principal in Louisiana of an individual who has an out-of-state certification as a principal.
Page 36 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides relative to Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) continuing eligibility requirements for the 05-06 academic year for postsecondary students displaced during such academic year as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or both; provides for waivers, exceptions and the authority of the Student Financial Assistance Commission.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329915
Title: H.B. 142A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Provides relative to initial eligibility requirements for Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) awards for high school students displaced during the 2005-2006 school year as a consequence of Hurricane Katrina or Rita, or both; provides waivers, exemptions and the authority of the Student Financial Assistance Commission.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329916
Title: H.B. 143A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us |
Private Schools |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows students to attend summer school from private providers if the summer school applications from the private provider are approved by the district. Page 7 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2504
Source: www.doa.state.la.us/osr, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Private Schools |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Relates to private schools. Adds programs of study and revises summer school policy.
Pages 8-34 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXIX, Chapter 1-31
Source: www.doa.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
These changes clarify that all local education agencies must be monitored, eliminates the exemplary category, and adds a new category called targeted monitoring. It also clarifies that agencies must begin correcting non-compliance upon receipt of the monitoring report, requires agencies to develop an intensive corrective action plan (ICAP) when compliance is not reached in one year, requires additional actions in conjunction with the ICAP, and allows the state
superintendent to impose special conditions on the agencies IDEA Part B grant award without the need for approval from the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. This new monitoring process began in 1999 and, after five years of implementation, changes were needed to make the process more effective.
Page 40 of 106: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:XCI.101, 105-111, 301, 303-317, 507, and 509
Source: www.doa.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes new special education course codes that will allow students with disabilities and gifted and talented students to earn Carnegie units and it will allow districts to track the courses in which the students are enrolled.
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
Page 5 of 106 http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0512/0512RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXV.2333, 2355, 2364 and 2369
Source: www.doa.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Grants a school district the option of a two-year renewal of Out-of-Field Authorities to Teach (OFAT) for individual pursuing certification in special education areas.
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows certain Hurricane Katrina victims to take in-service distributions from their Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts; provides for a tax return under specified circumstances.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329901
Title: H.B. 63A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Waives the first two months' interest on delinquent contributions due for August and September 2005 to the State Employees' Retirement System, the School Employees' Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System or any statewide public retirement system; limits the applicability of this law to any system that suffered damage as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina or Rita, or both.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329895
Title: H.B. 17A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows certain Hurricane Rita victims to take in-service distributions from their Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) accounts; provides relative to such monies for income tax credit purposes.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329912
Title: H.B. 120A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows a member of any state or statewide public retirement system on involuntary furlough or leave without pay due to a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency to purchase credit for the period of the furlough or such leave by paying the required employer and employee contributions to the system, subject to certain limitations.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329896
Title: H.B. 18A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Paraprofessionals |
Adopted 12/2005 |
P-12 |
Reduces the number of credit hours required in mathematics from nine credit hours to six credit hours for those individuals seeking to meet highly qualified requirements for paraprofessionals following "Pathway 2", the 48 hour pathway.
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Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us/osr |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Defines growth label changes for three-star schools. Defines the movement of three-star schools into Academic Assistance if performance significantly declines. Addresses the requirement of districts to address the learning needs of mobile students, the writing and implementation of reconstitution plans, and the accountability status of reconfigured schools. These changes take advantage of new flexibility in guidance for No Child Left Behind and address situations
that were not considered when the accountability policy was initially written.
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0511/0511RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.517, 1101, 1501, 1705, 2301, 3301, and 3303
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet and www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures for identifying underperforming schools to be transferred to the Recovery School District. Requires the Recovery School District to provide all educational services to students in transferred schools. Requires the recovery district to develop and present to the state board a plan for the operation of all schools transferred, within six months after the transfer of a school to the recovery district. Sets forth mandatory components of a plan. Mandates that the recovery district retain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it for at least five school years. Requires the recovery district to report to the state board on specified indicators no later than nine months prior to the expiration of the five-year period, and to recommend whether the school should be (aa) Continued in the recovery district pursuant to its reported operational status; continued in the recovery district with a change in its operational status and the nature of the recommended change; closed; or returned to the administration and management of the transferring system with proposed stipulations and conditions for the return.
Authorizes the district to manage and retain specified funding; relates to Type 5 charter schools; prohibits members of certain school boards from also being
members of the governing board of certain Type 5 charter schools.
States that on and after November 15, 2008, no additional schools shall be transferred to the jurisdiction of the recovery district.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329650
Title: H.B. 121A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Amends the accountability system calculations to take advantage of new flexibility in guidance for No Child Left Behind and address situations that were not considered when the accountability policy was initially written.
§305. Calculating the CRT Index
§509. Inclusion of Alternate Assessment Results in Accountability Reporting
§703. Inclusion of Students in the Subgroup Component
§3901. Assessment of Students with Disabilities
§3903. LEAP Alternate Assessment Participation Criteria
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0511/0511RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.305, 509, 703, 3901-3905
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet and www.doa.state.la.us/osr |
Class Size |
Signed into law 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Exempts LA 4 (prekindergarten) classes from class size ratio for the 2005-2006 school year if the district or charter school enrolled any students during the 2005-2006 school year who were displaced that year due to school closures as a result of natural catastrophe or disaster or the district or charter school cannot meet the class size ratio requirements due to the enrollment of students displaced by natural catastrophe or disaster.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329555
Title: H.B. 19A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
No Child Left Behind |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Brings state content standards in science, social studies and mathematics into compliance with provisions in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
Science: pp 6-41 of 198
Social studies: pp 41-73 of 198
Mathematics: pp 73-98 of 198
English language arts: pp 98-132 of 198
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0511/0511RUL.pdf
AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
Title: LAC 28:CXIX, Chapters 1-17; LAC 28:CXXIII, Chapters 1-21; LAC 28:CXXI, Chapters 1-13; LAC 28:LXIII.Chapters 1-19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.doa.state.la.us/osr |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Exempts schools from minimum 180-day school year for the 2005-2006 school year. Authorizes the state board of education to adopt rules for the 2005-2006 school year related to the minimum session required of any institution in order to be classified as a school.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329560
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: Lexis-Nexis, http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Waives minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year for any city, parish, or other local public school or district that cannot meet the minimum requirements due to school closure for reasons of natural catastrophe or disaster as certified by the state superintendent of education and approved by the state board, in accordance with state board rules. Requires any entity not able to meet the minimum instructional time requirements in the 2005-2006 school year to submit to the state superintendent of education documented information explaining the reasons why it cannot meet such requirements and any efforts made toward meeting the requirements and a revised school calendar for the 2005-2006 school year. Requires schools and school systems subject to such certification and approval to comply with the revised school calendar. Requires the waiver provisions to apply to an entire school system only if every school within the system is forced to close due to natural catastrophe or disaster.
Effective for the 2005-2006 school year, waives the provisions relative to the requirement that teachers work not less then one hundred eighty-two days per school year. However, authorizes the state board to adopt rules effective for the 2005-2006 school year relative to the minimum number of teacher work days.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=329564
Title: H.B. 33A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides for the exclusion from the Teacher Assistance and Assessment Program for those teachers from other states who provide National Board of Professional Teaching Standards or appropriate evaluation results from their immediate previous teaching assignment. AGENCY CONTACT: Nina A Ford, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Box 94064, Capitol Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9064
http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0511/0511RUL.pdf (page 6 of 198)
Title: LAC 28:XXXVII.507
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet and www.doa.state.la.us/osr |
Technology--Funding Issues |
Issued 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Also referred to as Executive Order No. KBB 05-83. Authorizes an E-Rate Oversight Committee to work under the guidance of the Universal Service Administrative Authority and the Federal Communications Commission on the rebuilding of school and library technology infrastructures in these areas and offsetting the costs entities have endured with the influx of displaced students.
Title: Executive Order 104
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 |
P-12 |
Re-establishes Truancy Assessment and Service Centers to identify, assess and intervene to ensure K-6 students attend school regularly. While established under TANF provisions, rules specify that eligibility for services is not limited to needy families. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf
Title: LAC 67:III.5539
Source: www.doa.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes exceptions and deferments in certain state financial aid programs for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf
Title: LAC 28:IV.2103 and 2105
Source: www.doa.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2005 |
P-12 |
Applies provisions of the United States Hurricane Katrina Tax Relief Act to the Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts of retirees who have sustained an economic loss due to Hurricane Katrina. Allows retired teachers living in an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina to withdraw additional funds from their accounts up to $100,000 or the total of their account if less than $100,000, by December 31, 2006. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0510/0510EMR.pdf
Title: LAC 58:III.510
Source: www.doa.state.la.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Prohibits, except under certain circumstances, city, parish, and other local public school boards and nonpublic schools and school systems from hiring specified persons who have been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to certain crimes as provided in present law. Provides that such specified persons also include any person employed by any person or entity that contracts with a school or school system for cafeteria, transportation, or janitorial or maintenance services (with certain exceptions for nonpublic schools) and a temporary, part-time, or permanent school employee of any kind. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=316825
Title: H.B. 178
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
Community College |
Requires the commissioner of higher education, not later than August 16, 2005, to appoint or assign a person with appropriate expertise and background to research, prepare, and propose a plan for the organization of the technical division. Assigned person is to (a) Consider and account for population patterns, the enrollment patterns, commuting patterns, the level of accreditation of the various community colleges and other institutions, and the programs in place at the various institutions. (b) Consult with representatives of the students to be served, the faculty of the institutions involved, the businesses and industries in each region, and the members of the legislature in each region. the function of the state level office is to include: (a) Statewide leadership and coordination of rapid-response workforce development. (b) Statewide leadership on adult learning with an emphasis on developing the community and technical college capacity as providers of adult literacy and adult education services. (c) Professional development and other support services to the institutions providing for technical education and workforce development. (d) Curriculum development. (e) Advocacy for the technical education mission with the LCTCS board of
supervisors.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=320085
Title: H.B. 505
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Vetoed 07/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes the creation of one or more film institutes by public institutions of higher education. Such institutes shall be nonprofit corporations under state law and under the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that the institute will be governed by the administration of the respective
public institution of higher education subject to the oversight of a board of directors of five members. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317008
Veto message: http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/05RS/veto/HB797v.pdf
Title: H.B. 797
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Exempts any school board in a parish containing a municipality with a population of 400,000 or more from the requirement that the school board allow public comment prior to taking any vote and preceding each agenda item at board meetings. Provides instead that such school board shall provide opportunity for public comment at each meeting, subject to reasonable rules and restrictions adopted by the school board. Retains application of provisions relative to a comment period for all comments at the beginning of the meeting not being sufficient for all school boards, including a school board in a parish containing a municipality with a population of 400,000 or more.
Title: H.B. 252
Source: 2005 Legislative Highlights Document |
Leadership |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Relative to the employment and removal of a superintendent of schools by a local public school board, provides for such employment pursuant to a written employment contract that includes specific performance objectives; grants certain rights under specified circumstances to a superintendent who chooses not to enter into a subsequent contract; provides relative to termination of employment, including specifying grounds for such removal during the term of a contract, time lines, and guidelines for the giving of notice of termination, and the use of certain due process procedures; and provides guidelines for the negotiation and offering by a school board of a new contract at the expiration of an existing contract. Cannot be required to live in the political subdivision comprising the school system in which he is to serve.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319954
Title: H.B. 429
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
Postsec. |
AN ACT To enact R.S. 17:3048.1(A)(5), to permit use of Tuition Opportunity Program for Students Opportunity, Performance, and Honors Awards at certain out-of-state nonpublic colleges and universities; sets conditions for and limitations on such use; to provide relative to award amounts; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319791
Title: H.B. 103
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.4(F)(3), relative to alternative assessments for students with certain disabilities. Requires that, in addition to the alternate assessment accommodations for students with significant cognitive disabilities, the department of education must by September 2005 develop modified achievement standards and use alternative assessments to accommodate those students with persistent academic disabilities but who are likely to make significant progress.
Requires assessments for these students to be sensitive to measuring progress in their learning, to recognize their individual needs, and be
geared specifically toward accommodating students to enable them to perform on criterion- and norm-referenced tests. Requires such accommodations to include at a minimum verbalized test questions and to provide for writing assistance of a scribe and any other accommodations deemed appropriate by the student's Individual Education Plan committee. States that any accommodations afforded a student with disabilities while taking the state test shall not breach any test security nor invalidate the meaning of the test score or the purpose of the test. Further requires, at each IEP meeting, that a written list of accommodations be discussed and provided to the parent of each student with a disability. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319039
Title: S.B. 214
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
AN ACT To enact R.S. 17:3048.5. Establishes the TOPS-Tech Early Start Award as part of the Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students for eligible 11th- and 12th-grade students attending Louisiana public high schools. States that a TOPS-Tech Early Start Award may be used at a Louisiana public postsecondary education institution for the purpose of pursuing an industry-based occupational or vocational education credential that:
(a) Is identified by the Occupation Forecasting Conference as a credential for an occupation in top demand in Louisiana;
(b) Is recognized by the State Industry-Based Certification Council; and
(c) Is approved by the state board of education and by the board of supervisors of community and technical colleges. An eligible student may receive an award for up to 2 semesters each in grade 11 and 12. Provides for payment to the Louisiana postsecondary education institution
in which the student is enrolled.
Requires the administering agency to make available information necessary to fully inform Louisiana public high school students and their parents on the requirements of and procedures for applying for the award in the same manner as required by law for other awards provided by the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students.
To be eligible for an initial TOPS-Tech Early Start Award, requires a student to meet all the following requirements and administering agency rules:
(1) Be in the eleventh or twelfth grade in a Louisiana public school.
(2) Have prepared a five-year education and career plan, including a sequence of related courses with a career focus as provided in statute.
(3) Have a cumulative high school grade point average on all courses attempted of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.
(4) Have at least the minimum scores required to pass the math and English portions of the graduation exit exam established by the state board.
(5) Score at least fifteen on the English subsection and fifteen on the mathematics subsection of the ACT PLAN assessment administered as part of Louisiana's Educational Planning and Assessment System.
Establishes requirements for continuing eligibility for an award.
Establishes Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission as administering agency for the program. Authorizes the administering agency to implement the program provisions initially on a pilot basis. Adds that, if implemented on a pilot basis, it is the intention of the legislature that full implementation be achieved at the earliest time possible.
Requires the the board of regents, in consultation with the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission, to annually submit to the governor and the legislature, before the opening of each regular legislative session, a written review and analysis of TOPS-Tech Early Start awards relative to award use by students and the benefits therefrom as well as the impact on subsequent use by students of TOPS-Tech awards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319071
Title: S.B. 355
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:1871(A)(2), relative to membership of the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges; to provide relative to terms and qualifications of appointees to the board; to provide with regard to experience as a condition of appointment; and to provide for related matters. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=318379
Title: S.B. 84
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:24.10(A) and 3995(C). Authorizes charter schools to apply for and receive funding from the department to provide early childhood development and enrichment activity classes, .a.k.a. LA 4 classes, as provided for in statute. Specifies that a charter
school may apply for and receive funding directly from the state or federal government. Specifies that a charter school must comply
with the terms of any state or federal grant program for which it receives funding.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319041
Title: S.B. 239
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 24:971(B)(1), 972(A)(18), (B) and (C), and 973(A)(1)(introductory paragraph), and to enact R.S. 24:972(A)(23) and 973(B), relative to the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Expands commission's purpose to include educating citizens in the community. Clarifies that one member should represent the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. Adds that commission may include any additional member who has expertise in civic education or civic involvement, as may be designated by 3/4 of the commission members present and voting. Requires such member to serve at the pleasure of the commission. Allows members of the commission to receive a per diem. States that the commission must develop and coordinate outreach programs in collaboration with member organizations, agencies, in addition to schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317499
Title: S.B. 39
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires the inclusion of the topic of adoption awareness in middle or high school courses that include material related to family life, including Family Life and Consumer Science Education courses. Defines adoption awareness.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317551
Title: H.B. 777
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year and thereafter, requires all public elementary and secondary schools to:
(1) Encourage and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for the purpose of allowing all children to reach their full potential as individuals.
(2) Improve physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level.
(3) Improve nutrition in children by making available during the day snacks with higher nutritional values.
(4) Increase the awareness of children about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on improving health.
(5) Encourage increased parental awareness of the positive impact on health and fitness of increasing the activity level of children and of improving nutrition.
(6) Encourage daily physical activity and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity.
(7) Encourage the enjoyment of physical activity and the improvement of nutritional and eating habits.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319230
Title: S.B. 146 (Sections K-
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Community College |
Requires political subdivisions to establish procedures to give first priority for donation of their surplus computer equipment to public elementary and secondary schools in the state and community and technical colleges under the management and control of the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=318391
Title: S.B. 218
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health--Nutrition |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To enact R.S. 17:197.1, relative to school nutrition programs. Applies to the sale of food and beverages in elementary and secondary schools other than (1) school breakfast or lunch during the school day and (2) beverages sold as part of the school food program, beginning with the 2005-2006 school year. Except for milk and water, only the following beverages, not to exceed 16 ounces in size, may be sold to students at public elementary and secondary schools during a period starting ½ hour before school and ending ½ hour after school:
1. Fruit juices or drinks composed of 100% fruit juice or vegetable juice that do not contain added natural or artificial sweeteners.
2. Unsweetened flavored drinking water or unflavored drinking water.
3. Low-fat milk, skim milk, flavored and non-dairy milk.
Except for items sold as part of the school food program, the following foods may not be sold in a public elementary or secondary school during a period starting ½ hour before school and ending ½ hour after school:
(a) Food of minimal nutritional value as defined by federal law.
(b) Snacks or desserts that exceed one hundred fifty calories per serving, have more than thirty-five percent of their calories from fat, or have more than 30 grams of sugar per serving, except for unsweetened or uncoated seeds or nuts.
(c) Fresh pastries, which must be defined by the state board.
Beginning the last ten minutes of each lunch period, the beverages and food sold to students in public high schools must be comprised of 50% of the beverages listed above, and may comprise no more than 50% of the foods sold. Fresh pastries may not be sold at all.
Requires each elementary or secondary school principal to determine if children in classrooms may possess drinking water.
Authorizes the Pennington Biomedical Research Center to develop and provide to interested persons, schools or districts publications on foods that may be sold on public elementary and secondary school grounds in compliance with the provisions above. Authorizes the Pennington
Biomedical Research Center to provide assessments of nutritional value of individual food items contemplated for sale on public school grounds.
States that If on May 15, 2005, a public school or district has an existing contract with a company to provide vending services which would be breached by compliance with the provisions above, the provisions above will be applicable to the schools in that system on the day following the end of the current term of that contract, or the date on which the contract is terminated, whichever is earlier.
Requires the state board to provide by rule for the placement of competitive foods in public elementary and secondary schools and provide for the enforcement of those rules.
States that these provisions do not prohibit or limit the sale or distribution of any food or beverage item through fund-raisers by students,
teachers, or groups when the items are intended for sale off the school campus.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319230
Title: S.B. 146 (Paragraphs A-J)
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
High School |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the High School Redesign Commission for the purpose of making recommendations for the development of statewide policies, guiding principles, and programs that address the current and future economic needs of the state and promoting student success in high school and in life beyond secondary education. Provides for the purpose of the commission; for commission duties and responsibilities, membership, vacancies, compensation, and reporting requirements.
Specifies that in making its recommendations, the commission must consider the following:
(1) Strategies for increasing dual enrollment opportunities for high school students, including but not limited to an emphasis on the following:
(a) Early entry into postsecondary education institutions.
(b) The identification of funding sources for such dual enrollment opportunities.
(c) Improved articulation agreements between secondary schools and postsecondary education institutions.
(2) Strategies for increasing awareness among postsecondary education institutions of the reform efforts made at the high school level, including but not limited to an emphasis on the following:
(a) Strengthening the value of the state's high school diploma endorsements.
(b) Defining the levels of knowledge and skills necessary for students who are enrolling in courses for credit at postsecondary education institutions and encouraging secondary schools and postsecondary education systems to align their standards and assessments with such knowledge and skill levels.
(3) Strategies for better integration of the WorkKeys job skill assessment system into high school preparation programs and initiatives.
(4) Strategies for increasing the rigor of the high school curriculum, including but not limited to emphasis on establishing a default core curriculum and exploring the concept of testing students at the end of each course that the student completes.
(5) Strategies for reducing the number of high school dropouts in the state, including but not limited to strategies and opportunities for students who have fallen behind academically to make the progress necessary in order to be eligible to graduate from high school.
(6) Strategies for improving high school students' senior year in order for such year to be a meaningful and academically enriched time in preparing such students for graduation and life beyond high school.
(7) Diploma options for high school students.
(8) Strategies for including the American Diploma Project Network in any recommendations relative to efforts to raise high school standards to help high school students to better achieve in postsecondary education and work after graduation.
(9) Any other strategies or initiatives that the commission deems important and necessary in carrying out its duties and responsibilities.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=318804
Title: H.B. 434
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Provides that any principal who holds a valid out-of-state principal certificate, has at least four years of successful teaching experience in another state and has completed one year of employment as a principal in a La. public school system may be issued a La. principal
certificate without submitting a passing score on the otherwise required exam or any exam from another state provided the applicant meets the following conditions:
(a) The principal meets all other requirements of law or board policy.
(b) The employing superintendent recommends continual employment subject to receipt
of a valid principal certificate.
(c) The employing superintendent has requested that the principal be granted a valid
principal certificate.
Authorizes the state board to grant a three-year nonrenewable provisional certificate to a principal who holds a valid out-of-state certificate and who applies for certification for use while seeking in-state certification. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317694
Title: S.B. 236
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3048.1(A)(1)(e)(xiii) and to enact R.S. 17:3048.1(A)(1)(e)(xiv), relative to the Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students curriculum (Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) high school core curriculum requirements for Opportunity, Performance, and Honors awards for students who graduate from high school during the 2007-2008 school year and thereafter, requires that a student must have successfully completed at least 17½ units of high school course work which constitutes a core curriculum). New law retains same core curriculum list except that it requires the math or science elective unit must be selected from among the following courses: Geometry, Calculus or approved advanced math substitute, Biology II, Chemistry II, Physics or Physics II. Provides that Trigonometry will no longer be included in the core curriculum for students graduating after 2004-2005. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=317491
Title: S.B. 19
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
Postsec. |
Relative to initial eligibility for a Tuition Opportunity for Students Program (TOPS) award for a student certified by a parent (or court-ordered custodian) to have successfully completed at the 12th grade level a home study program approved by BESE, provides that such student shall have a composite ACT score (or equivalent SAT score) which is two points higher (instead of three points higher) than that required for a student graduating from a La. public high school or BESE-approved nonpublic school. Effective for the 2005-06 award year through the 2007-08 school year.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=318758
Title: H.B. 120
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires a principal to immediately suspend a student who is found carrying or possessing a knife whose blade is 2 inches or longer. Also requires the principal to immediately recommend the student's expulsion, except when the student is less than eleven years old in pre-kindergarten through grade five.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=315961
Title: H.B. 458
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Amends reenacts R.S. 17:427.3(A), (B), (C), (H) and (I)(1), relative to the Teach Louisiana First Program. Revises the program by deleting the distinction between failing schools and rural schools with academic deficiencies and providing instead incentives to reduce the shortage of teachers certified to teach certain core subjects in low-performing public schools. Directs the board of elementary and secondary education (BESE) to define "core subject." The incentive provided to teachers participating in this program must be in addition to the salary adjustment provided to teachers who hold a valid certificate issued by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Deletes the requirement that BESE designate specific teaching positions and provides that BESE will establish criteria identify and notify low-performing schools and their governing boards in which eligible teachers may be employed and designate the core subjects they may be hired to teach. Deletes the requirement that BESE rank teachers in terms of who is most highly qualified. Directs BESE to establish and consider criteria to prioritize the allocation of hiring authority of eligible teachers, which is to include school and district performance scores, percentage of uncertified teachers, and poverty level. Provides that a participating teacher may be already employed in the participating school system, but must be newly assigned to the lowperforming school or re-hired to teach in a school that has been reconstituted. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=314804
Title: S.B. 144
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:427.4 and to enact R.S. 17:427.5. Establishes legislative intent to make teacher quality a priority, and to do so by create an incentive and initiative program to entice teachers to earn certification and qualification, including certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Establishes legislative recognition of teacher shortage in certain parts of the state. Expands Louisiana Teachers' Homebuyer Program. Defines "disadvantaged geographical area." Defines "eligible teacher" as an individual who (1) holds valid Louisiana teaching certification; (2) Meets all state requirements for certification and employment as a public school teacher; and (3) Is employed as a classroom teacher in a public school designated as a low-performing school located in a disadvantaged geographical area. Extends program assistance to include teacher home loan closing assistance. Transfers primary responsibility for identifying low-performing schools from department to state board. Redesignates panel as part of program as The Advisory Panel on the Louisiana Teachers' Homebuyers Program and establishes panel within the state department of the treasury. Clarifies panel membership. Establishes that the powers, functions, and duties of the advisory panel include but are not limited to the following:
(1) Identifying disadvantaged geographical areas in the state.
(2) Advising the state treasurer on the implementation of the panel's recommendations.
(3) Evaluating and assessing annually the effectiveness of the program.
(4) Developing recommendations to disseminate information regarding the program to eligible teachers.
(5) Developing recommendations to promote the program.
(6) Recommending rules and regulations for program implementation and administration.
(7) Meeting at least quarterly.
(8) Submitting an annual report, including proposed legislation if necessary, to the state treasurer, governor, and the legislature at least 30
days prior to each regular legislative session.
States that each appointment to the advisory panel by the governor and the state superintendent of education are subject to senate approval and that such members shall serve terms concurrent with the governor's.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319064
Title: S.B. 264 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Louisiana Qualified Teachers' Incentive Program as a special program for any eligible classroom teacher who agrees
to teach in a low-performing public school located in a disadvantaged and underserved geographical area of the state, all as identified by the state board. Defines an eligible teacher under the program as one with valid Louisiana teaching certification; who has not had a certification or licensure requirement waived by the state on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis; Has the equivalent of an academic major, or has passed the Louisiana licensing content-specific Praxis exam, or has earned a master's degree in the content area taught; and who under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act meets the definition of a highly qualified teacher. Requires the state board to formulate, develop, and approve components of the Louisiana Qualified Teachers' Incentive Program, to be administered by the state superintendent of education.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=319064
Title: S.B. 264 (multiple provisions)
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 39:1351(A) and (B), 1352, 1353, and 1354, and to enact R.S. 17:10.1(C). Requires the state board to define "financially at risk" as a status of any city, parish, or other local school board the unresolved finding of which subjects the school system and its board to specified statutory provisions regarding the judicial appointment of a fiscal administrator. Requires every local board to be notified on a regular basis by the department of education of its status related to the elements of the definition of financially at risk. Clarifies provisions relating to the determination that a political subdivision is to be appointed a fiscal administrator. Adds that in the case of a local school board, upon notification by the state superintendent of education, the attorney general must file a rule for a fiscal administrator to be appointed to the district when, the legislative auditor, the attorney general and the state treasurer unanimously determine that such local board is reasonably certain to fail to resolve its status as financially at risk as that status has been defined by rule by the state board for ensuring the fiscal soundness of all public school systems, pursuant to R.S. 17:10.1(C). Adds that a court must appoint a fiscal administrator to a political subdivision if the court finds from the facts and evidence deduced at the hearing of the rule that the political subdivision is reasonably certain to not have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, reasonably certain to fail to resolve its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board.
Adds that the fiscal administrator's report subsequent to his investigation may, rather than existing requirements regarding amendments to the political subdivision's comprehensive budget, include amendments that will insure having sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, amendments that will insure resolving its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board. Adds that the fiscal administrator's report may, rather than existing requirements regarding estimates of the political subdivision's funding level needs, identify the funding level needed in order to have sufficient revenue to pay current expenditures, excluding civil judgments, or, in the case of a city, parish, or other local public school board, as is needed to resolve its status as financially at risk as defined by the state board.
Establishes additional requirements for such political subdivisions and districts.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=316582
Title: S.B. 307
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Modifies provisions related to district subgroup component adequate yearly progress (AYP) indicators, district performance labels and district corrective actions. Each district shall be evaluated on the subgroup component at three different levels (grade-clusters); elementary (K-5), middle (6-8), and high school (9-12). A district shall pass the subgroup component provided that each subgroup of students within each grade-cluster meets the passes the subgroup component, and each grade-cluster the district, as a whole, meets the criteria for status or
improvement on the additional academic indicator.
See pages 14-17 of 109: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0503/0503Rul.pdf
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII:4310 through 4313
Source: www.doa.state.la.us |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 02/2005 |
P-12 |
Adopts emergency rule establishing early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities under Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) Program. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0502/0502EMR.pdf (pp 30-31)
Title: LAC 50:XV.8109
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules to promote Health and welfare of Medicaid recipients and to maintain access to Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program (EPSDT) school-based services. Amends reimbursement methodology for services rendered by local education agencies. http://www.state.la.us/osr/emr/EMR011.htm
Title: LAC 50:XV.Chapter 71
Source: StateNet |
Reading/Literacy |
Adopted 10/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to add a requirement for demonstration of reading competencies by alternate teacher certification program completers. http://www.state.la.us/osr/lac/28v01/28v01.pdf
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: StateNet |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Vetoed 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides for the awarding of certificates of attendance by the board of elementary and secondary education to any public high school student who fails to pass the graduation exit exam but has completed all required coursework and all other graduation requirements. Such a student would not be barred from receiving a diploma if he or she later passed the exit exam.
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/VETHB740.PDF
Veto message: http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/04RS/veto/HB740v.pdf
Title: H.B. 740
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Prohibits the operation of a clandestine controlled substance laboratory on or within 1,000 feet of school property; provides penalties. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LWNH.PDF
Title: H.B. 1437
Source: StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides for priority funding of type 2 charter schools which have been renewed for ten years. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LVUP.PDF
Title: S.B. 874
Source: StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education. Establishes that the commission must: (1) Develop and coordinate outreach programs in collaboration with schools to educate students on the importance of understanding specific principles of democracy; (2) Identify civic education projects in Louisiana and provide technical assistance as may be needed to such programs; (3) Build a network of civic education professionals to share information and strengthen partnerships; (4) Develop, in consultation with entities having representatives on the commission and others as determined by the commission, an Internet clearinghouse; (5) Value and support successful civic education programs in the state and encourage expansion of such efforts; (6) Prepare and provide an annual report of activities to the governor and to the legislature. Provides for funding. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LVJ0.PDF
Title: S.B. 11
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to the physical activity and nutrition of students. Identifies childhood obesity as a growing problem in Louisiana. Identifies benefits of regular physical activity and healthy eating habits. States purposes of this section are: (1) To promote, encourage, and motivate children of all physical abilities to participate in physical activity for children to reach their full potential as individuals; (2) To promote physical activity and fitness in schools by encouraging innovative physical education programs that consist of physical exertion of a moderate to vigorous intensity level; (3) To promote improved nutritional levels in children by providing for snacks with higher nutritional value during the school day; (4) To inform children and their parents about the importance of physical activity and improved nutrition and the effects of both on positive outcomes. (5) To increase parental awareness of their children's activity and fitness levels. (6) To promote daily physical activity, the enjoyment of physical activity, the improvement of nutritional levels and eating habits and the development of lifelong patterns of physical activity.
Deletes existing provision that, beginning with the 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in grades K-6 provide at least thirty minutes of quality physical activity for students each school day. Replaces with provision that in 2004-05 school year, schools serving children in such grades provide at least thirty minutes of "quality moderate to vigorous" physical activity for students every school day. Requires every public elementary school to annually report to its local board on compliance with this provision. Also requires every local board to annually report to the state board on compliance with this provision. Requires suitably adapted physical activity to be included as part of the individual education plans for students with chronic health problems, other disabling conditions or other special needs that preclude participation in regular physical activity.
Encourages secondary school students not enrolled in a physical education course to participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity commensurate with student ability for at least 30 minutes a day.
Requires various state agents, including the department of education and the department of health and hospitals, as well as the American Heart Association, to collaborate to develop an outreach and communication plan consisting of current information and research on health, nutrition and physical education and fitness issues. This plan must be disseminated to every local public school board and made available to parents and students.
Beginning with the 2004-05 school year, requires a public elementary or secondary school selected from each regional education service center region in the state to be annually identified for an outstanding program of physical activity implemented at the school. As funds are available, requires monetary awards to be given these outstanding schools.
Allows any public school serving students in grades 7, 8, 9 or 10 to apply to participate in a three-year pilot program to begin in the 2005-06 school year. Requires the state board to choose up to eight schools from each of the eight regional service districts to participate in the program, striving to achieve equal geographic distribution. Identifies areas of study: (1) An annual assessment that measures aspects of health-related fitness, rather than skill or agility, of the students in participating schools; (2) An assessment of the changes in weight status of the students who are enrolled in participating schools and who are receiving combined nutritional and physical activity intervention versus a nutritional intervention or physical activity intervention alone; and (3) The collection of individual baseline and longitudinal data to measure the improvement of each individual student. No assessment shall compare any student to another. Idenfities state entities required to collaborate to develop the elements of the pilot program and the recommendations for its implementation. Requires every school selected to participate in the program to provide a comprehensive report to the state board at the end of each school year on the effectiveness of the pilot program in accomplishing the pilot program objectives.
States that the pilot program established in this bill must in no way interfere with or replace any effort, purpose, assessment or program implemented by the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LVUO.PDF
Title: S.B. 871
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires persons who have or who are seeking to obtain a contractual or other relationship with a state or statewide public retirement system to disclosure certain expenditures. Establishes penalties for failing to file a report, filing a late report, or filing a report with incomplete or inaccurate information. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LWN2.PDF
Title: H.B. 1215
Source: |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Repeals requirement that certain local school board expenditures relative to travel and related expenses of school board members be in accordance with specified state travel regulations. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LVZH.PDF
Title: H.B. 229
Source: StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires the secretary of the health and hospitals department to create an advisory board to establish a standard health form for schools, in order to eliminate the duplication of information submitted to schools and school nurses relative to immunizations, illnesses, allergies and sports physicals. Provides for members of the School Health Advisory Board. Requires the department of health and hospitals, office of public health to be responsible for providing administrative and technical assistance to the advisory board. Requires implementation of the use of the standard health form to begin by August, 2005 and for the form to be used exclusively in schools by August 15, 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LVLJ.PDF
Title: S.B. 826
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the creation of an early intervention pilot program in certain parishes, to address the underlying causes of behavioral problems and school performance problems related to behavior. Authorizes local boards, law enforcement agencies, courts with jurisdiction over juveniles and their caretakers, and designated service providers to establish interagency agreements to exchange student records; provide family services; identify youth for participation and monitor treatment plan progress; provide services related to child abuse and neglect, among other services. Requires the district attorney to annually report on program effectiveness. Requires the pilot to be implemented in three phases: Phase 1: grades pre-K-6; Phase 2: grades 7-8; Phase 3: grades 9-12. Establishes July 1, 2009 as end of pilot program. Creates the Sixteenth Judical District Attorney Early Intervention Fund to support the program. Assesses an additional fee on each criminal bond posted in the three pilot parishes to help support the program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LU3U.PDF
Title: H.B. 956
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Subject to appropriation, creates the Kindergarten Plus pilot program of classes, at least one in each of the state's eight regional service districts, of extended kindergarten for disadvantaged children from the 2005-06 through the 2007-08 school year. For purposes of this program, disadvantaged children are those eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced-cost lunch program. Every local board is invited to submit a proposal to the department to provide such a class in one of its schools. Should a large number of qualified proposals be submitted from one regional service district, the winning class must be selected by random drawing. Kindergarten Plus classes will offer full-day kindergarten starting two months before the kindergarten classes in the local district.
Requires the department, with state board approval, to establish rubrics of evaluation for use in every participating school which must be designed to provide clear and usable information regarding the effect the additional two months of kindergarten has on the students' academic achievement and overall school success when compared to similar students who enroll in the regularly provided kindergarten classes extended through their primary grades.
Based on an analysis of the evaluations of the effect of Kindergarten Plus classes, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, the department may expand the number of schools participating in the pilot, continue the pilot limited to eight schools, or discontinue the Kindergarten Plus classes.
Requires annual reporting to the legislature on the progress, evaluations, the analysis of the evaluations, and department opinion on the expansion, continuation or discontinuation of Kindergarten Plus. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT9/OUT/0000LVK1.PDF
Title: S.B. 301
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes program providing free tuition and waiver of fees and other charges, including room and board, for spouses of firefighters seriously injured or killed in the line of duty. Spouse must be otherwise eligible and meets all of the college or university entrance requirements. Spouse will remain eligible as long as s/he meets the academic requirements and maintains a "C" average for each semester and complies with the rules and regulations of such college or university required for attendance therein as a full-time student, for the number of semesters required of a full-time student to obtain one bachelor degree offered by such college or university, up to 10 semesters. In addition, such spouse will be entitled to a cash grant of two hundred fifty dollars per semester from such college or university as an allowance for books and all of the above sums shall be paid out of funds appropriated from the general fund of the state of Louisiana.
The same opportunity is available to any firefighter seriously injured in the line of duty, when such injury results in an inability to be employed.
Full text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LVTN.PDF
Title: S.B. 641
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec. |
Requires the Board of Regents to develop and maintain a state student financial aid plan.
Title: S.B. 617
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Adds Agriscience I and II to the list of sciences that may be taken as part of the TOPS curriculum. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LWCU.PDF
Title: S.B. 435
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 07/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the alternative means for determining residency for the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students for dependent students who graduate from eligible state high schools and have a parent or court-ordered custodian who resides in an adjoining state.
Title: S.B. 209
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Tuition Opportunity Program; provides for use of a program award by a student for any cost of attendance for such student at an eligible public college or university as determined in accordance with specified guidelines.
Title: S.B. 224
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Board of Regents to establish the Northeast Louisiana Delta Learning Center; provides for the use of the Swanson Correctional Center for Youth-Madison Parish Unit.
Title: S.B. 785
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Defines "hazing". Requires local school boards to adopt, enforce, and post policies prohibiting the hazing of students in public elementary and secondary schools. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT6/OUT/0000LVJ3.PDF
Title: S.B. 16
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Limits the authority of a justice of the peace to arrest a teacher in any public or private elementary, secondary, high school, vocational-technical school, college or university who is acting in the scope of his or her professional duties, with certain exceptions. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LWM2.PDF
Title: H.B. 445
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to school employee injuries. Specifies that sick leave with pay for any secretary, paraprofessional employee, school aide, teacher or superintendent of a special school who is injured or disabled while acting in his official capacity as a result of (1) assault or battery by any student or person, or (2) physical contact with a student or others while providing physical assistance to a student to prevent danger or risk of injury to the student or others, may be granted for up to one calendar year. The governing authority of the special school may extend this period beyond one calendar year. If the governing authority of the special school questions the validity of the physician certification allowing for sick leave, the governing authority may require the employee to undergo examination by a physician of the authority's choosing. Should there be a disparity between the diagnoses of the two physicians, a third physician may be called upon to examine the employee; the opinion of the third physician must be determinative. and a six month reevaluation in order to continue to receive sick leave as a result of assault or battery or injury due to certain physical contact to prevent danger or risk of injury.
Any teacher in a public school who is injured or disabled while acting in his official capacity as a result of physical contact with a student or others while providing physical assistance to a student to prevent danger or risk of injury to the student or others, may be granted sick leave for up to one calendar year. The same requirements as above apply if the local board questions the validity of the physician certification of such injury or disability.
Full text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LVJ7.PDF
Title: S.B. 51
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Abolishes the Medicaid School-Based Administrative Claiming Trust Fund and provides for direct reimbursement of monies to public school boards for administrative claims. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LVKU.PDF
Title: S.B. 493
Source: StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes employment of the immediate family members of a school board member or school superintendent as a certified guidance counselor of parishes with a population of twenty-five thousand five hundred persons or less according to the most recent federal decennial census. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LWLA.PDF
Title: S.B. 261
Source: StateNet |
Students |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires every local board to establish criteria and limits for individuals, organizations and entities planning, organizing or promoting student field trips or extracurricular activities that involve travel or lodging expenses. Requires such policies to include that any travel agent or booking agent offering or arranging trasportation or lodging be bonded and adequately insured. Bars all public middle- and high-school principals from approving a student field trip or extracurricular activity requiring for hire transportation or motel/hotel lodging unless such arrangements are in concordance with local board policies providing for certain insurance coverage and bond capacity. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LVJ9.PDF
Title: S.B. 57
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends an earlier law that captures the savings from the abolition of extended sick leave for teachers. Uses the savings to increase teacher compensation.
Bill digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LUDL.PDF
Full text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LWFW.PDF
Title: H.B. 763
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Louisiana Teachers' Homebuyer Program to encourage teachers to work in low-performing schools in disadvantaged areas, including the delta region of the state. Idenfies state treasurer as program administrator. Requires an advisory panel to identify disadvantaged areas and the department to identify low-performng schools. Establishes an advisory panel to develop such program for approval by the governor prior to implementation and administration by the state treasurer. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LVUS.PDF
Title: S.B. 879
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Defines "academically in crisis" district and "academically unacceptable" school. Requires state superintendent to notify the state board, the president of the local board and the local superintendent when a district is found to be academically in crisis. Limits authority of notified local board. Gives notified local superintendent sole and exclusive authority for all other policy, operation and other matters. Limits notified local superintendent's contract to five years. Requires local superintendent, within 180 days of notification, to submit a report to the local board, state board and legislative auditor on the benefits of outsourcing all or some of the district's financial operations. Within 120 days of notification, local superintendent must develop a structured system improvement plan with specified content and submit the plan to the state board for approval. Upon approval of plan, the superintendent must report quarterly to the state and local boards on the progress of implementing the plan. Bars board of "academically in crisis" district from contracting or employing a superintendent or terminating the contract or employment of the incumbent superintendent unless by at least two-thirds vote of the board, and specifies that notified superintendent may receive no salary decrease while district is academically in crisis. Specifies method by which superintendent must be replaced in event of termination of notified superintendent. Requires notified local board to contract with an independent licensed certified public accountant to conduct an audit of the district finances and financial practices. The audit report must be submitted to the local board, the local superintendent and the legislative auditor. Specifies action to be taken following submission of audit report.
Requires state superintendent to provide to academically in crisis district a team of distinguished educators to provide a team of distinguished educators to provide expertise, direction and support to the district.
A district identified as academically in crisis must continue to be identified as such until student academic performance improves sufficiently to release the district from identification, and all audit findings are corrected.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LRSN.PDF
Title: H.B. 1659
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation program for all parishes with truancy and assessment and service centers subject to state funding. Extends end of truancy and assessment and service center pilot program from 2005 to 2007. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LV53.PDF
Title: H.B. 1527
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows the state board to disqualify an applicant for employment or for a license, permit or certificate for an occupation, trade or profession based solely on the applicant's possession of a prior criminal record. Legislative digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LB4N.PDF Bill: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LRRZ.PDF
Title: H.B. 96
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Increases certain fees imposed by the board of directors of the state school of math, science, and the arts. Increases maximum possible security deposit from $100 to $150; increases maximum possible room and board fee for summer session from $300 to $400 per student. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LUZM.PDF
Title: H.B. 431
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Louisiana State University National Champions and Southern University Black College National Champions prestige license plates. Each license issued shall be assessed a one-time $25 royalty fee, which monies must be used solely for academic or financial need-based scholarships for Louisiana State University and Southern University Black College. The management boards of the institutions shall be responsible for disbursing the funds and for establishing the scholarship program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LPIA.PDF
Title: H.B. 246
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to Education Excellence Fund amounts and related investment earnings credited to ineligible entities. Provides that fund
amounts and related investment earnings credited for a recipient entity shall revert to the fund whenever the entity no longer meets the conditions required for it to be eligible for fund allocations; to provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LUNG.PDF
Title: H.B. 666
Source: StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides for early retirement for state employee retirement members with actuarial reduction of benefits; requires abolition of positions vacated by early retirement and permits reestablishment only as provided. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LRSO.PDF
Title: H.B. 58
Source: StateNet |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Defines "actuarial science". Provides for educational training for members of the boards of trustees of the state and statewide retirement systems. Adds the laws, rules, and regulations of the system as an area of required education. Refers to 2 hours of required training in actuarial science information instead of actuarial information. Also requires training in fiduciary duty to be included in existing one-hour ethics instruction requirement. Requires trustees to have completed fiduciary and actuarial science, and legal education training on annual basis as condition for receiving per diem. Digest: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LCJG.PDF
Bill text: http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT1/OUT/0000LRT4.PDF
Title: H.B. 373
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Notwithstanding any provision of present law to the contrary, any entity which establishes scholastic rules which are the basis for the state board of elementary and secondary education's policy relative to extracurricular activities which are required for all high schools under the state board's authority shall not be required to be audited by the legislative auditor, but shall instead submit an audit prepared by an auditing firm
approved by the legislative auditor to the legislative auditor and the Legislative Audit Advisory Council. Provides that the council may, upon a finding of cause, order the audit of such entity. http://leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LUZR.PDF
Title: H.B. 490
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Specifies that children with exceptionalities enrolled in state-operated facilities and receiving special education services provided by the special school district shall be enrolled as residents of such facilities, and that eligible children enrolled in state-operated mental health facilities and receiving appropriate educational services by the special school district shall be enrolled as residents of such facilities. Authorizes the special school district to enter into interagency agreements with other state agencies to provide appropriate educational services, including special education and related services, to any eligible child who is not a resident of a state-operated facility but who is in the care or custody of a public or private department, agency, or institution, as well as to any eligible individual regardless of age who is enrolled in any state-operated facility as a resident of the facility. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LUT9.PDF
Title: H.B. 258
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Permits city, parish, or other local public or nonpublic school systems to contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide for school resource officers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LV4G.PDF
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--School Support |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Makes amendments to distinguished educators program, which provides for the identification and limited-term assignment of educators to work to improve low-performing schools. Sets June 1 annual selection deadline for selecting an active employee, requires local board to be notified in writing within seven days of educator's selection, limits number of certain persons serving as such to 10% of the total number of active employees of a district, and provides for return to service at the end of the employee's term of service as a distinguished educator.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LRT1.PDF
Title: H.B. 302
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes additional means for certain students to qualify for TOPS Opportunity, Performance and Honors scholarship awards. A student who meets all of the following criteria may receive an award: (a) meets citizenship requirements; (b) does not meet initial eligibility requirements; (c) scores in at least the superior range on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (3rd edition) or comparable score on comparable instrument; (d) scores in at least the 90th percentile at grade 12 level in reading, math and written language portions of Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (2nd edition) or equivalent score on equivalent test; (e) has minimum score on ACT or equivalent score on SAT; (f) student enrolls and after completing 12 hours of credit, is enrolled on full-time basis to earn undergraduate degree; and (g) "makes steady academic progress," earns at least minimum hours of credit for full-time status and maintains a minimum grade-point average. Such a student must receive same amount award as student who receives award through standard requirements. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LUZQ.PDF
Title: H.B. 487
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Increases the membership of the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission.
Title: H.B. 257
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides relative to student eligibility for Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarship program. Eliminates provision that completion of one-half unit of computer science, computer literacy and computer business applications is requirement only through the 2006-2007 school year. (Continues one-half unit requirement through 2007-08 school year and beyond). Deletes language that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter must complete one and one-half units of computer science, computer literacy or business computer applications; replaces with requirement that students graduating during the 2007-08 school year and thereafter complete at least one unit as an elective from among other math or science subjects listed in core curriculum. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LUSP.PDF
Title: H.B. 32
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes and sets limit on increases in tuition and mandatory attendance fee amounts for students enrolled in technical community colleges under the Board of Supervisors for Community and Technical Colleges.
Title: H.B. 1474
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relates to education savings accounts administered by the state tuition trust authority; deletes the requirement that such accounts must be invested in either fixed earnings or variable earnings, but not both.
Title: H.B. 486
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Relative to private support of public higher education programs, to provide that certain nonprofit corporations are not public or quasi public for any purpose.
Title: H.B. 899
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
Postsec. |
Provides for use of monies appropriated from the Higher Education Initiatives Fund; provides for transfer of funds to the Medical Assistance Trust Fund; provides for use of unexpended balances in the Tax Commission Expenses Fund; establishes the 2004 Overcollection Fund as a special fund in the state treasury.
Title: H.B. 619
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Beginning with the 2004-2005 academic year, exempts out-of-state persons (1) seeking admission to any college or university in the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, or (2) who is seeking Louisiana public college or university admission and meets National Collegiate Athletic Association initial eligibility standards required for participation in intercollegiate athletics, from having attained a minimum ACT score (or SAT equivalent score). http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LUSZ.PDF
Title: H.B. 177
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Eliminates requirement that the applicant have completed three semester hours in the teaching of reading for secondary-level certification, and nine semester hours of such coursework for certification at any level below the secondary level. Requires secondary- and pre-secondary level certification candidates to complete number of semester hours in the teaching of reading as established by the state board of elementary and secondary education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LQT4.PDF
Title: S.B. 542
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Existing law barred a sexually violent predator from living within 1000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school. Amendment adds that sexually violent predator may also not reside within 1000 feet of a day care facility, playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool or free standing video arcade facility. Creates new section stating that sexual offender whose offense involved a minor may not be eligible for probation, parole, or suspension of sentence unless, as a condition thereof, the sexual offender is prohibited from:
(a) Going in, on or within one thousand feet of the school property of any public or private, elementary or secondary school, or the physical presence in any motor vehicle or other means of conveyance owned, leased, or contracted by such school to transport students to or from school or a school-related activity when persons under the age of eighteen years are present on the school property or in a school vehicle.
(b) Going in, on or within one thousand feet of a day care facility, playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool or free standing video arcade facility.
(c) Physically residing within one thousand feet of any public or private elementary or secondary school, day care facility, playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool or free standing video arcade facility.
(d) Communicating, either in written or oral form, with the victim or a family member of the victim, unless the victim consents to such communication in writing.
Sexually violent predator may be present on school property with a public district superintendent's permission or the permission of a principal or headmaster of a private school.
Specifies that individual who violates these provisions shall have his probation, parole or suspension of sentence revoked and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Establishes a pilot program, to be implemented by the department of public safety and corrections, using a location tracking and crime correlation based electronic monitoring supervision program for sex offenders and violent offenders. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT5/OUT/0000LQ3B.PDF
Title: S.B. 164
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to the use of visual stop indicator signals on school buses; includes requirements regarding when a school bus, which is not receiving or discharging passengers, meets or is following another school bus that has such signals activated. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LRT5.PDF
Title: H.B. 384
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Shifts authority for appointing special education advisory panel members from the department of education to the state board. Requires the special education advisory panel to serve the state board rather than the department in an advisory capacity. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT2/OUT/0000LRST.PDF
Title: H.B. 213
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Includes guidance counselors holding appropriate ancillary certificates issued by the state department of education in definitions of persons eligible for certain sabbatical and sick leave benefits provided by law. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT4/OUT/0000LUZS.PDF
Title: H.B. 493
Source: StateNet |
Students |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Bars minor age 16 who has not graduated from high school from working between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. before a school day, and minor age 17 from working between midnight and 5 a.m. before a school day. Clarifies language regarding the working hours of minors under the age of 16. For purposes of this section, a minor who has taken and passed a General Education Development test (GED) and who has been awarded a high school Equivalency Diploma from the Louisiana Department of Education will be considered to have graduated from high school. Employment pursuant to this Section shall be subject to the provisions of any local curfew ordinance. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LV0L.PDF
Title: H.B. 691
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires each state and statewide public retirement system to submit its proposed annual operating budget to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget for review and approval. Bars any state public retirement system make any expenditures or obligate itself for items which deviate from its approved operating budget. Establishes a procedure for a state public retirement system to submit a proposed modification to an annual operating budget. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT7/OUT/0000LO5I.PDF
Title: H.B. 1200
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides for the return to active service by any disability retiree. Eliminates requirement that returning disability retiree have retired with at least 25 years of service credit to return to active service. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT10/OUT/0000LUCF.PDF
Title: H.B. 982
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Deletes reference that any educator eligible to apply for a special prestige license plate be an "elementary or secondary" educator. Revises existing statute so that eligible educator must be "educated or employed" in Louisiana, rather than "educated and employed" in Louisiana. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT9/OUT/0000LUN3.PDF
Title: H.B. 290
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Codifies rules relating to the business education content standards and the curriculum framework for Louisiana. Provides rules relating to the mission and goals of education in the state, the mission statement of business education in the state, business education framework development and structure, as well as other related guidelines and rules.
Title: LAC 28:LXVII.Chapters 1-9
Source: StateNet |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec. |
Adds promotion of Master Plan goals to the Board of Regents authority to advertise and specifies postsecondary learning centers to advertise; relates to increasing the number of other race students enrolled in a public institution of higher learning.
Title: S.B. 629
Source: StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to funds and funding; provides with respect to the Support Education in Louisiana First Fund.
The monies in this fund shall be used only as provided in this bill and only in the amounts appropriated by the legislature. Requires that all unexpended and unencumbered monies in this fund at the end of each fiscal year shall remain in the fund. and shall retain their allocation for use and expenditure in accordance with the provisions this bill.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT8/OUT/0000LL9V.PDF
Title: S.B. 506
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Adds language for the implementation of Continuing Learning Units (CLUs) and High Quality Professional Development. Streamlines current policy and aligns these rules with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. LOUISIANA REG 9335 (SN)
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: StateNet |
Accountability |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules relating to the implementation of fundamental changes in the classroom by helping schools and communities focus on student achievement. Clarifies method for calculating a School Performance Score for elementary, middle and high schools. Establishes timelines for schools in School Improvement to submit improvement plans, expands the details of the Supplemental Educational Services process, specifies how LEAP Alternative Assessment students are included in NRT calculations, and creates required definitions for English language proficiency. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 22-27 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:LXXXIII.303, 311, 1701, 2701, 2702, 2703, 2713, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721, 3905, 4001, 4003, 4005
Source: http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr |
Bilingual/ESL |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules that contain English language development standards for limited English proficient students in each of the four domains of language, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Establishes five levels of proficiency within each domain. Guides curriculum development for limited English proficient students. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pages 27 through 31 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:Part LXXXV.Chapters 1-7
Source: www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules to revise current course offerings, bringing them in-line with current industry standards. Up-dates career and technical course offerings. Assures that these rules will be more aligned with national standards.
Title: LAC 28:I.901 (Sections 2.105.25 thru .27)
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules to allow local education agencies (LEAs) to secure a deposit, equal to the replacement costs, for textbooks provided to students in approved home study programs. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see page 39 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:XXXIII.517
Source: StateNet |
Middle School |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules to specify the exam and passing score(s) for the following certification areas: Business Education; Middle School Science; and Middle School Social Studies for the standards for certification of school personnel.
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Repeals rules that address alternate assessment and curricular design for students with disabilities in special schools. Provides consistency with rules governing students with disabilities not attending special schools.
Title: LAC 28:I.901
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Establishes emergency rules relating to the administration of the Student Tuition and Revenue Trust (START Saving) programs. Protects the welfare of eligible students. LOUISIANA REG 9364 (SN)
Title: LAC 26:VI.107, 305
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules relating to discharge of obligation for scholarship and grant rules.
Title: LAC 28:IV.911, 1111, 2105
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules relating to the removal of the declassified Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and related definitions. Clarifies the responsibilities of the local education agencies (LEAs) for students who are no longer eligible as students with disabilities. Clarifies what is meant by the terminology used in the Least Restrictive Environment section. http://www.doa.state.la.us/osr/reg/0404/0404RUL.pdf (see pp 37-39 of 71)
Title: LAC 28:XLIII.373, 449, 517, 519, 904
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Adopts rules to extend the deadline from July 1, 2004 to August 31, 2004, for teachers to complete requirements for adding endorsements. Allows candidates an additional summer semester to complete the old requirements.
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Approved by voters 10/2003 |
P-12 |
To require that monies in the Lottery Proceeds Fund be annually appropriated by the legislature for the minimum foundation program of education for public elementary and secondary schools and up to five hundred thousand dollars for services related to compulsive and problem gaming as may be provided by law. (Effective July 1, 2004) (Amends Article XII, Section 6(A)) http://www.sec.state.la.us/elections/2003-ca.htm and http://www.sec.state.la.us/cgibin/?rqstyp=ELCMR&rqsdta=100403&ID=99924518
Title: Ballot Measure 9 (HB 583)
Source: Louisiana State Web site |
Governance |
Approved by voters 10/2003 |
P-12 |
To authorize the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to supervise, manage, and operate any public elementary or secondary school determined to be failing or to provide for others to do so; to authorize the state board to receive, control, and expend state minimum foundation program money and local money contributed pursuant to the minimum foundation program or otherwise in amounts calculated based on the number of students in attendance in such a school, all in the manner and in accordance with law. (Amends Article VIII, Section 3(A))
http://www.sec.state.la.us/elections/2003-ca.htm and http://www.sec.state.la.us/cgibin/?rqstyp=ELCMR&rqsdta=100403&ID=99924513
Title: Ballot Measure 4 (SB 225)
Source: Louisiana State Web site |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 10/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules concerning early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment program early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. LOUISIANA REG 9136 (SN)
Title: LAC 50:XV.Chapter 81
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends rules relating to all level K-12 certification areas. Amends the structure for underground programs for all level areas of art, dance, foreign language, health and physical education, and music. Provides for all-level programs through the three new alternate routes.
Title: LAC 28:I.903
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2003 |
Postsec. |
Establishes emergency rules amending the Scholarship/Grant programs to allow the Louisiana Office of Student financial Assistance and state educational institutions to effectively administer these programs. LOUISIANA REG 9081 (SN)
Title: LAC 28:IV.503, 507, 703
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2003 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules relating to the scholarship and grant
rules. Provides definitions, application requirements,
testing deadlines, provisions of the TOPS tuition
assistance program, and maintaining eligibility for
tuition assistance. Provides the responsibilities of
high schools, school boards, special school governing
boards, and the Department of Education.
Title: LAC 28:IV.301, 507, 509, 701, 703, 705, 803, 805, 1701, 1703, 1705, 1903, 2103, 2105
Source: StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows state board to provide for and department to use monies (remaining after department provision of all school rewards in school accountability system) for school improvement as an optional secondary use for money in the statutory school rewards fund. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB231&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 231
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Starting in the 2004-05 school year and thereafter, requires every public school serving students in grades K-6 to offer students at least 30 minutes of quality physical activity every school day.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KT2Y.PDF
Title: S.B. 398
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires total dollar amount of reductions to appropriations from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund resulting from budget adjustments to avoid a deficit to be apportioned equally between the appropriations to the board of regents and the state board of elementary and secondary education. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB573&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 573
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
No Child Left Behind--Parent Involvement |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides for the establishment of a 2-year parental involvement demonstration program in local school systems, beginning with the 2003-04 school year. Program is to be funded with available funds (if they exist) from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program, to establish programs in Title I-recipient schools chosen by the independent review panel from all schools identified by local board as having either lower scores on latest state assessment than the year before OR less than a five point improvement in such scores for use in determining the school's performance score as part of state accountability program. Independent panel review board must choose a cross section of elementary, middle and high schools, considering both test scores and an assessment of school readiness. Requires every participating school to submit to an official comprehensive evaluation of its parental involvement program by an independant parent review board. Allows schools that succeed in meaningful parent involvement to be eligible for awards. Requires schools found to be in noncompliance to comply with provisions of this section by one year from date of official review, if no waiver has been granted by the independent parent review board. Noncompliance may result in assignment of technical support and in random monitoring by the independent parent review board. Defines purpose, criteria and duties of independent parent review board. Requires state board to select an independent parent review board from applications from qualifying organizations. States that the independent parent review board must annual evaluate the effectiveness of a participating school's parent involvement policy in improving the school's academic quality, and that the findings resulting from such evaluations are to be considered public information and may be included in the state's report card.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT1/OUT/0000KT46.PDF
Title: S.B. 706
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. |
Concerns eligibility for Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarship program. Specifies that current requirement that eligible student must complete at least 16 1/2 units of high school work, including one-half unit of computer science, computer literacy or business computer applications, and meet admissions standards for desired postsecondary institution applies from now through the 2006-07 school year. Adds that beginning in the 2007-08 school year and thereafter, students seeking TOPS scholarships must complete 17 1/2 high school course units, including one and one-half units of computer science, computer literacy or business computer applications, and meet admissions standards for desired postsecondary institution. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB1657&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 1657
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. |
Changes from 2001-02 to 2003-04 the beginning year in which any student who meets all eligibility requirements can receive a performance reward. Adds gifted curriculum and Advanced Placement courses to "honors curriculum courses," of which the applying student must have completed ten or more to be eligible for an award. Changes from 2003-04 to 2006-07 the first academic year in which no student is to receive an initial award in the academic year or thereafter. Changes from 2003-04 to 2006-07 the first academic year in which any student granted an award prior to that school year may continue under such award as long as continuation requirements are met.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB439&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 439
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. |
Changes minimum ACT score for eligibility for the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) scholarship from 19 to 20. Statute already specified that if student loses scholarship eligibility, the period of ineligibility may not continue for more than two years. New language specifies that participating student whose college studies are interrupted by student's active duty service in the United States Armed Forces will have this two-year period extended for a length of time equal to the student's active duty service, not to exceed four years. For a TOPS-Tech award, the period of ineligibility already was not to continue for more than one year. New language specifies that if this one-year period is interrupted by a student's active duty service in the United States Armed Forces, the one-year period must be extended for a length of time equal to the student's active duty service, not to exceed four years. Requires the administering agency, beginning with the 2003-04 school year, to set guidelines to allow consideration of any ACT or SAT score first obtained on an authorized testing date after the national April ACT testing date in the year of the applicant's high school graduation but before July 1 of that same year.
Adds that anyone who meets each of the following requirements may be considered a Louisiana resident for purposes of TOPS scholarship eligibility: 1) Graduated during the 2001-02 school year or thereafter from a state board-approved Louisiana public or nonpublic high school; 2) Continuously enrolled in and attended such a school from at least the start of the student's junior year of high school through high school graduation, as certified by the school principal or his or her designee; 3) Student has a parent or court-ordered custodian who is a resident of a state adjoining Louisiana and who resides in a municipality having geographic boundaries that include a portion of the state of Louisiana; 4) Parent or custodian has filed a Louisiana state income tax return and has complied with state income tax laws or is assessed ad valorem taxes on property owned in Louisiana.
Deletes language that student who chooses to receive the TOPS Tech Award and enrolls in a Louisiana public postsecondary institution cannot change to standard TOPS scholarship. Adds that student is eligible to receive a TOPS-Tech Award scholarship if he or she graduated during the 2002-03 school year or thereafter from an out-of-state high school accredited by a regional accrediting organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and that meets the standards adopted by the Louisiana state board of education for approval of nonpublic schools in Louisiana. Deletes language requiring TOPS Tech Award-eligible student to have lived in Louisiana or have a parent or legal guardian who has lived in Louisiana for 24 months prior to the date the student's initial application is received. Replaces with requirement that eligible student meet residency requirements for standard TOPS scholarship.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB549&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 549
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the LSU Board of Supervisors to impose specific tuition and attendance fee amounts for students attending LSA-Alexandria.
Title: H.B. 401
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes the Board of Regents to study and formulate a state tuition and fee policy for public postsecondary education institutions.
Title: H.B. 1536
Source: StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that for the 2002-03 school year and thereafter, the requirements governing the minimum length of the school day and year do not apply to any district or school that was unable to meet minimum instructional time requirements due to school closure within the last thirty calendar days of the school year, when such closure was the result of natural disaster as defined by the state superintendent and state board. State board must adopt regulations requiring any school or district that was unable to meet the minimum instructional time requirements, due to circumstances specified above, to submit to the state superintendent information on why the school or district was unable to meet the requirements and any efforts made by the school or district to meet the requirements. Provisions apply to a district only if every school in the district was forced to close due to natural disaster. For the 2002-03 school year, these provisions do not apply to the New Orleans system and which in 2002-03 school year cannot meet the specified minimum instructional time requirements due to school board's action providing professional development activities during the school day in every school in the system and the reduced instructional time does not exceeed one hundred eighty minutes.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB457&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 457
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Effective beginning with the 2003-04 school year and thereafter, eliminates ban on student possession of cell phone or pager on school property, including public school buses. (Retains ban on student use of cell phones or pagers on school property, including school buses). Changes language so that violation of this prohibition is optional rather than mandatory grounds for disciplinary action. Specifies that the school system is the entity authorized to take disciplinary action against student violating ban on cell phone or pager use on school property. Eliminates referral of student to parish juvenile court as possible disciplinary action for cell phone/pager ban violation. Eliminates provision that any person other than a student or school employee who violates the ban on unauthorized cell phone or pager use on school property must be imprisoned with or without hard labor for a maximum of 30 days, or fined a maximum of $100, or both. Adds clarification that nothing in this section prohibits the use of any cell phone or pager by any person, including students, in the event of an emergency. Defines emergency as actual or imminent threat to public health or safety which may result in loss of life, injury or property damage. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB750&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 750
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Teachers' Bill of Rights. The teachers' rights enumerated include: 1) The right to teach free from the fear of frivolous lawsuits, including the right to indemnification by the employing school board for actions taken in the fulfillment of the teacher's duties; 2) The right to appropriately discipline students in accordance with state statutes regarding student discipline and local policies; 3) The right to remove any persistently disruptive student from his or her classroom when the student's behavior prevents the orderly instruction of other students or when the student displays impudent or defiant behavior, and to put the student under the supervision of the principal or his or her designee; 4) The right to have his or her professional judgment respected by school and district administrators in any disciplinary action taken by the teacher in accordance with school and district policy and statute; 5) Right to teach in a safe, secure and orderly environment that is conducive to learnign and free from recognized dangers that cause or are likely to cause serious injury; 6) The right to be be treated with civility and respect; 7) The right to communicate with parents about and involve them in appropriate student disciplinary decisions; and 8) The right to be free from excessively burdensome disciplinary paperwork. Forbids any local board from adopting policies that prevent teachers from exercising the rights set out in this section or in sections of statute dealing with student discipline. Requires every local board to give every teacher a copy of this section of state code at the beginning of every school year. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KTSR.PDF
Title: H.B. 1342
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to extra compensation for noncertified school support personnel in the event such compensation is not included in the minimum foundation program formula. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB1858&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 1858
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates the Teach Louisiana First Program to reduce the shortage of teachers certified to teach certain subjects in public schools designated as failing by the state board. Provides for incentive pay to certified teachers willing to teach in rural public schools that have not been labeled as failing but are in disadvantaged geographic areas. Program teachers must teach in subject in which he or she is certified and which subject has been identified by the state board as critical to the school's recovery, and must meet one of the following criteria: 1) Have graduated from a nationally or regionally accredited teacher training program with at least a 3.0 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), have passed the state teachers' test, meet the federal requirements for a highly qualified teacher in a Title I school and have held a valid Louisiana teaching certificate for less than two years immediately preceding the execution of a teaching contract with a board for participation in the program; or 2) Have at least four years of teaching experience, have a valid Louisiana teaching certificate in the subject area or areas in which the applicant is contracted to teach and meet the federal requirements for a highly qualified teacher in a Title I school. In addition, all applicants must submit to a criminal background check, meet all other state teacher certification requirements and adhere to all local board employment contract provisions. Specifies that if at any time there is a lack of funding to provide for the participation of all eligible applicants, including those already participating in the program, first priority must be given to the best qualified teachers already participating in the program, then to the best qualified new applicants. Establishes $4,000 incentive payment in first year for every eligible applicant who meets the requirements of 1) above, and $4,000 every year for the next three consecutive years if the local board decides the teacher's performance and adequate program funding warrant continuing the participant in the program. If the participant meets the qualifications under 2) above, the participant is to receive $6,000 a year. Forbids any program participant from receiving any incentive payment for more than four consecutive years or receiving more than $24,000 over such four-year period. Allows any program participant who has incurred federal student loan debt prior to program participation to choose to apply program payments to the loan debt, such that the administering agency forwards the participant-designated amount, up to the maximum due the participant, to the holder of the federal student loan. Requires every participant to sign a contract stipulating that the participant agrees to pay the state the amount of the incentive payment received for any program year in which the participant does not teach the full year unless the debt is partially or fully forgiven by the administering agency for justifiable cause as established by the administering agency. Requires program to be administered by the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission, which must adopt regulations governing specified areas of the program. Allows the commission to seek, accept and spend funds from any source, including foundations and the private sector, as well as any federal or other governmental funding, to implement the program.
Requires the state board of elementary and secondary education to annually submit a report to the commission identifying 1) every school designated a failing school and every rural school not designated as failing but located in a disadvantaged geographical area; 2) the number of certified and highly qualified teachers needed in every failing school and every rural school in a disadvantaged geographical area to teach subject areas the board has designated as critical to the improvement of student performance and the school's recovery; 3) the order of priority in which failing schools and rurla schools in disadvantaged geographical areas may be allocated program teaching positions.
Requires the state board to submit a written report by March 1, 2008 to the house and senate education committees on board-collected data, to determine whether significant student test score improvements were made by students who were taught by teachers in the program and whether these improvements justify continuation of the program.
Requires every local board allocated a program position by the commission to employ a person to fill a critical classroom teaching position. if the board does not employ a qualified applicant within a prescribed period, the board must return its program allocation to the commission for reallocation.
Requires every college of education at any public postsecondary institution in the state to encourage teacher education students to participate in the program.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB1923&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 1923
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Critical Teacher Shortage Incentive Program; changes definition of "newly certified teacher" for purposes of the program from one certified for the first time for the 2002-03 school year to one certified for the first time for the 2004-05 school year. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT10/OUT/0000KTG3.PDF
Title: H.B. 1231
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the principal of any public or private school to notify the office of motor vehicles when any student between the ages of 14 and 18 has been subjected to any of the following disciplinary actions: expulsion or suspension from school for ten or more consecutive school days or an assignment to an alternative educational setting for ten or more consecutive school days in accordance with any policy of the school or of the local public school board, limited to expulsions, suspensions, and assignments to alternative educational settings for infractions involving the sale or possession of drugs, alcohol, or any other illegal substance, the possession of a firearm, or an infraction involving assault or battery on a member of the school faculty or staff. Requires local boards to adopt rules and regulations regarding these provisions.
Requires the driver's license (or learner's license or intermediate license) of any student subjected to any of the above disciplinary actions to be revoked for one year. Allows student to obtain a special identification card, hearing or a hardship license. Specifies that a license suspension under these provisions cannot extend beyond the student's 18th birthday. Allows a student's driver's license to be eligible for reinstatement if, after six months from the date of denial or suspension, the principal notifies the department in writing that the student has displayed exemplary student behavior at school, has not violated any school policies or been found guilty of any misconduct pursuant to R.S. 17:416 or any policy of the school or of the local public school board, and no further disciplinary measures have been taken.
Bars issuer of car insurance from increasing rates or premiums because of any suspension of a license under these provisions.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT4/OUT/0000KSQH.PDF
Title: H.B. 1686
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Adds a charge of immorality as a cause for dismissal of a teacher, bus driver, or permanent employee; defines immorality as conviction of a felony offense against the public morals.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB778&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 778
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a charter school from employing any member of the governing or management board of such school. Prohibits more than 20% of the members of a charter school's governing or management board from being members of the same immediate family. Requires charter schools to be fully compliant with this provision by January 1, 2004. Deletes language requiring charter schools to be in full compliance with the laws in effect when the charter was entered into. Replaces with requirement that all charter schools be in compliance with all applicable laws in effect on August 15, 2003 and with all amendments to such provisions within 90 days of their effective date. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT10/OUT/0000KQKT.PDF
Title: H.B. 1309
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the free enterprise curriculum to include instruction in personal finance beginning with the 2004-2005 school year. States that personal finance includes but is not limited to income, money management, spending and credit, and savings and investing. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT1/OUT/0000KO78.PDF
Title: S.B. 38
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Repeals provision allowing only one parent-teacher association or booster club for each school. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB162&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 162
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that before approving the minimum foundation program formula, the legislature, by majority vote in both chambers of the legislature, may return the formula adopted by the state board of elementary and secondary education and may recommend to the board an amended formula for consideration by the board and submission to the legislature for approval. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT2/OUT/0000KT0M.PDF
Title: S.B. 578
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Includes provisions to provide for the re-creation of the department of education and the statutory entities made a part of the department by law; provides for the effective termination date for all statutory authority for the existence of such statutory entities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT4/OUT/0000KO7C.PDF
Title: S.B. 83
Source: StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Increases membership on the state advisory commission on teacher education and certification from 11 to 13 members. Decreases from ten to nine the members who are employed by a city or parish, adds that one of these nine may be employed by some "other local public school system." Adds requirement that tenth member represent the board of regents; adds requirement that 11th and 12th members represent the Blue Ribbon Commission on Teacher Quality or its successor. (Amendments retain standing requirement that 13th member be appointed from a list of teachers nominated by the J.K. Haynes Foundation). Specifies that from the nine members who are school system employees, six must be certified, employed, and actively engaged as full-time practicing classroom teachers, and that one of these six must be the teacher appointed from the list nominated by the J.K. Haynes Foundation. Requires member who is an education faculty member be nominated by the Louisiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, rather than the Louisiana Council of Education Deans, as previously required. Adds requirement that member representing the board of regents be appointed by the commissioner of higher education. Requires the two members representing the Blue Ribbon Commission on Teacher Quality be appointed by the commission's chairperson.
In section regarding the initial meeting of the state advisory commission on teacher education and certification, states that the commission must transact such other business as the state department of education considers advisable. (Former language required the commission to transact such other business as the commission considers advisable).
Deletes language requiring the commission to recommend state or national standards for preservice and advanced certification programs to the board of regents, the Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities, the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (retains language that the commission recommend on these areas to the state board).
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB126&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 126
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Prohibits a school board member from acting in an individual capacity without the authorization of the school board to use his authority of office to directly or indirectly compel or coerce personnel decisions or employee decisions, including the promotion, discipline, discharge, or assignment of work to any school employee. Also prohibits a school board member from using the authority of his office or position as a member of the school board, directly or indirectly, in a manner intended to compel or coerce any school employee to make any decision concerning benefits, work assignment, or membership in any organization. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB1905&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 1905
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health--Child Abuse |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Beginning May 1, 2006, requires every person graduating from any teacher preparation program in the state to have had instruction on laws of mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse, as well as instruction on identifying the signs of child abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse, in order to receive his or her teacher certification. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT8/OUT/0000KT0T.PDF
Title: S.B. 797
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Provides that schools which operate over the Internet are included in the definition of proprietary schools; increases membership of the advisory commission on proprietary schools from eight to nine members, so that the board of regents appoints two members rather than one. (Proprietary schools do not include any school that receives public funds, either from a state or local source). http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB456&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 456
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Success--Transfer/Articulation |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Provides relative to the articulation of courses among and recognition of course credit by public college and universities.
Title: H.B. 1470
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Previously adopted law required principal to immediately suspend student found carrying a knife the blade of which is at least 2 inches long. New provision adds that no student may carry or possess a knife of any blade length. A student who is found carrying or possessing a knife with a blade less than two inches in length may be suspended by the school principal but, at a minimum, must be placed in in-school suspension. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB110&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 110
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires a restriction which limits a person to operating only a school bus; provides that such restriction shall apply to a person who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has taken a skills test in a school bus and who has not previously held a commercial driver's license. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=SB141&doctype=BT
Title: S.B. 141
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Eliminates provision that teachers at regular and special public schools are eligible for medical leave sabbaticals only if they have 25 days or fewer of regular sick leave remaining. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB846&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 846
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that all those serving in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity, including temporary or uncertified teachers, are prohibited from receiving unemployment benefits during summer vacation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT5/OUT/0000KQG9.PDF
Title: S.B. 824
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that any elementary or secondary school found academically unacceptable under the state school accountability system must be designated a "failed school." If the local board 1) does not present the state board with a plan to reconstitute the failed school, or 2) presents an unacceptable reconstitution plan, or 3) fails at any time to adhere to the reconstitution plan approved by the state board, or if the school is identified as academically unacceptable for four consecutive years, jurisdiction over the school is to be transfered from the district to that of the Recovery School District, subject to state board approval.
Requires a failed school to be reorganized and operated by the Recovery School District in the manner most likely to raise school performance to an acceptable level as determined by the accountability plan. Requires the Recovery School District to maintain jurisdiction over any school transferred to it until the state board, upon recommendation by the district's adminstering agency, establishes an agreement with the local board to return the school to the local board's jurisdiction. State board must require the RSD's administering agency to seek return of the school to the local district when the school is no longer academically unacceptable. Details components that such agreement must include.
Specifies that when a school transferred to the Recovery School District has been operated by RSD for four years and is still academically unacceptable, state board must 1) Revoke all school approval; 2) Require the Recovery School District to end the operational agreement and offer an alternate operational agreement; or 3) Return the school to the jurisdiction of the local board. Specifies that state board in this case must not take action if the school's performance score in the state accountability system has risen by at least 20 points during the four-year period of Recovery School District oversight. School board may also not take action in any subsequent four-year period in which a school continues to be academically unacceptable if the school's performance score has risen at least 20 additional points. Allows parent or guardian of student assigned to school transferred to Recovery School District to exercise option made available by local board to attend another school in the district.
Requires state board, represented by the superintendent of the Recovery School District, to annually submit a report to the House and Senate education committees that must include specified components.
Establishes Recovery School District, which is to be administered by the state department of education. Gives RSD powers of system school was formerly under the jurisdiction of, but forbids RSD from contracting with any for-profit private provider for either operation or providing instructional services in any school under its authority. Allows RSD to require any local board to provide school or student support services such as transportation, food service or assessment for special education eligibility to students in school transferred from its jurisdiction. Also grants the RSD rights to use buildings and property otherwise part of the school prior to school transfer to RSD. RSD not required to provide extensive building repair that would be considered capital expense, but must provide routine repair and maintenance.
Establishes funding mechanism for Recovery School District and schools under its jurisdiction.
Creates "Type 5" classification for charter schools that are transferred to the Recovery School District. Specifies that only students who would have been eligible to enroll in the school prior to its transfer to the Recovery School District may attend, including any student participating in a school choice program, subject to capacity. Requires all proposals for a Type 5 charter school to be made to the state board. Requires consideration of such proposals to be only upon recommendation of the administering agency of the Recovery School District. Specifies that certain provisions of state law regarding charters do not apply to Type 5 charter schools.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/03RS/CVT3/OUT/0000KFH9.PDF
Title: S.B. 710
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
States that mandatory minimum 24-month expulsion of any student age 16 or older, or mandatory minimum 12-month expulsion of student under age 16 in grades six through 12, who is found guilty of possession of, or knowledge of and intentional distribution of, or possession with intent to distribute any drug or controlled substance on school grounds does not apply if the student participates full time in a juvenile drug court program operated by a Louisiana court. States that the district may place the student in an state board-approved alternative education program for suspended and expelled students.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB639&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 639
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires, for initial certification as a principal or superintendent, the passage of an appropriate assessment instrument; authorizes the state board of elementary and secondary education to select the appropriate assessment instrument for such certification and to determine the level at which the assessment is satisfactorily passed.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB569&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 569
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Reading/Literacy |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that at least nine semester hours in the teaching of reading must be completed by anyone seeking certification at any level below the secondary level. Adds that candidates for teacher certification who have participated in any alternate teacher education program must be given the option of either completing the same number of semester hours as required for the teaching of reading for undergraduate program applicants or must possess the reading and literacy competencies identified in scientifically based reading research at the national level and approved by the state board of education for the teaching of reading.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB568&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 568
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Limits the number of times an emergency teaching permit may be renewed to two times.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB571&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 571
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2003 |
P-12 |
States that existing provision barring teachers promoted to a higher position in a special school after from gaining tenure in such positions until teacher has spent three years in the new position applies only to teachers whose promotion occured before July 1, 2003. New language states that whenever teacher who has gained tenure in a special school is promoted to position of higher salary or status, this teacher does not gain permanent status in the position but rather retains permanent status as a teacher. Specifies that where a teacher has not completed the required probationary period and is promoted to a position of higher status or salary, the probationary period continues, and at the end of the three-year probationary period, the teacher must automatically acquire permanent status in the formerly held position of teacher. Specifies that a person hired for a position of higher salary or status than that of a teacher in the system and the employment in the position of higher salary requires a teaching certificate or administrative endorsement or both, will automatically gain permanent status in the position of teacher after completing three years' service in the position he or she was hired for, or in such position and one or more other such positions provided the person is qualified to teach. Requires any person promoted to a higher position to have a standard Louisiana teaching certificate and appropriate administrative endorsement when a teaching certificate is a requirement for the position to which the person is being promoted. Bars anyone holding a provisional teaching certificate from being promoted to a higher position, except when a person meeting the requirements is not available for employment in the special school.
Special schools defined: http://www.legis.state.la.us/tsrs/tsrs.asp?lawbody=RS&title=17§ion=43
http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=03RS&billid=HB567&doctype=BT
Title: H.B. 567
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 04/2003 |
Postsec. |
Specifies that the exception in the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) to the initial and continuous enrollment requirements for military service extends to students who voluntarily enlist and enter on active duty after enrolling for the first-time as a full-time student, when the United States is engaged in armed conflict or the President has declared a national emergency. Specifies that the exception can last for up to four years. http://www.osfa.state.la.us/schgrt6a100.htm
Title: LAC 28:IV.2103
Source: www.osfa.state.la.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Adopted 04/2003 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules concerning the Student Tuition and Revenue Trust (START Saving) Program. Revises applicable definitions under the general provisions.
Title: LAC 28:VI.107
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Specifies that for the year ending December 31, 2002, the Louisiana Education Tuition and Savings Fund earned an interest rate of 5.82%, and that for the year ending December 31, 2002, the Earnings Enhancements Fund earned an interest rate of 5.91%. http://www.osfa.state.la.us/policy74.htm
Title: LAC 28:VI.315
Source: www.osfa.state.la.us |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Approved by voters 11/2002 |
P-12 |
(ACT 1236-200, HB 507) Amends the Constitution to authorize the legislature to establish procedures determining projected deficits and budget adjustments; limits reductions to the Minimum Foundation Program; exempts from reductions revenues dedicated or pledged as security for bonds, the severance tax and royalty allocations to parishes, retirement contributions, the Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund and the Millennium Trust.
Title: Amendment 3
Source: Louisiana Elections Division Web site |
Postsecondary |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2002 |
Postsec. |
Establishes emergency rules to allow the Office of Student Financial Assistance to effectively administer the Student Tuition and Revenue Trust (START Saving) program. Provides definitions of terms. LOUISIANA REG 8662 (SN)
Title: LAC 28:VI.107
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 11/2002 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules relating to the Office of Student Financial Assistance's Scholarship and Grant Programs.
Title: LAC 28:IV.301, 703, 803, 2103, 2105
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2002 |
Postsec. |
Establishes emergency rules to provide definitions of terms concerning the Office's Scholarship and Grant Programs. LOUISIANA REG 8661 (SN)
Title: LAC 28:IV.301
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Accountability Reports: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/asps/home.asp?I=PROF98)
1998-1999 Report Cards: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/asps/home.asp?I=PARENTS)
Source: Louisiana Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Notice that supplemental services application will be available on Web site October 18, 2002 with a November 15, 2002 closing date: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/OQE/PublicNotice.doc)
Instructions about applying: (http://www.doe.state.la.us/DOE/OQE/Summary.doc)
Source: Louisiana Department of Education Web site |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. |
An act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to increase tuition and nonresident attendance fee amounts for students in future entering classes at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center.
Title: HB 141A
Source: Lexis |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. |
Amends law that established Louisiana Student Tuition Assistance Revenue Trust Program (START), a mechanism for persons to establish savings accounts as owners to be used by named beneficiaries to pay the cost of eligible postsecondary education expenses. Changes to the START program include - expands the type of educational expenses for which START account moneys may be used; expands the definition of "fully funded," previously five times the cost of tuition at the highest cost Louisiana public college, to include qualified expenses; changes certain limitations and clarifies that the account owner may invest 100% of account in equity securities.
Title: SB 19A
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 08/2002 |
Postsec. |
Act authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to establish certain program fee amounts and increase certain tuition and attendance fee amounts, including amounts for the School of Allied Health Professions at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centers in Shreveport and in New Orleans, the dentistry and medicine programs at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and the Master of Nursing, Nurse Anesthetist Program of the School of Nursing at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
Title: HB 136A
Source: Lexis |
Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
Signed into law 06/2002 |
P-12 |
Revises the individual income tax credit for child care expenses and educational costs.
Title: H.B. 238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 05/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the parish school board in certain parishes to name an athletic field house in honor of a former parish president and football director under certain circumstances; relates to the criminal code prohibition against naming a public building in honor of a living person.
Title: H.B. 138A
Source: Lexis-Nexis |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Reestablishes a dedicated fund to set aside funds for providing rewards to schools earning rewards pursuant to the accountability system. http://www.legis.state.la.us/bills/byinst.asp?sessionid=021ES&billtype=SB&billno=14
Title: S.B. 14A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Lowers age for when certain students may attend alternative education or vocational-technical education programs; provides relative to attendance of certain students in BESE-approved adult education programs. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT5/OUT/0000JJ1G.PDF
Title: H.B. 21A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds a judicial district to the truancy and assessment and service center pilot program. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT5/OUT/0000JIZA.PDF
Title: S.B. 32A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Zacary and Baker school boards to borrow money sufficient to meet its budget and expenditures for FY 2002-2003. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT1/OUT/0000JHZE.PDF
Title: S.B. 110A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
In section relating to immunization tracking registry, states that parental consent is to be considered general consent given for treatment and release of information to other providers or to the office of public health. Requires immunization providers to meet at least one of the following requirements: 1) Placement of poster in waiting room notifying parents that the site is sharing data with the state immunization registry. 2) Provision of parents with a brochure from the Office of Public Health describing the purposes of the registry and telling parents they can ask the health provider not to submit their child's immunization information. 3) In the event of a public health emergency such as a natural disaster, bioterrorist attack, or epidemic, waiver of requirement to obtain consent for placement on the registry for mass immunizations performed in response to such events.
Title: H.B. 91A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Revises early childhood development program for four-year-olds. Allows applicants to seek a waiver for the requirement of enrichment activities provided before and after the regular school day if providing a full ten hour day is not possible for reasonably feasible or economically justifiable reasons. Applicants seeking a waiver must have specific and achievable plans for meeting the full ten hour requirement by no later than the beginning of the third year of operation. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT6/OUT/0000JIZB.PDF
Title: S.B. 33A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Religion |
Vetoed 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Forbids any public elementary or secondary school student in Bossier Parish to be prohibited from participating in voluntary, student-initiated, student-led prayer at any time before, during or after the school day as long as such prayer is nonsectarian, noncoercive, and nondisruptive. Requires that in the case of any challenge to the constitutionality of this section, all costs of the challenge must be borne by the Bossier Parish School System.
Title: H.B. 22A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires that school prayer or meditation be silent.
Title: H.B. 13A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires traffic control devices at all public railroad grade crossings located within one-half mile of any elementary or secondary school; includes warning signs; requires the Department of Transportation to identify all public highway railroad grade crossings on state highways located within one-half mile of any elementary or secondary school; provides for reports on such surveys; relates to damages, civil trial and civil liability.
Title: S.B. 52A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Reinstates provisions providing for the probationary period of a school employee who is promoted in a school system with a population of 425,000 or more. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT8/OUT/0000JIZD.PDF
Title: S.B. 35A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows parish governing authorities to consolidate certain precincts; relates to the redistricting and reapportionment of a parish, city, or other local public school board.
Title: S.B. 65A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides relative to the definition of resident as it applies to a child with an exceptionality. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT8/OUT/0000JJ2D.PDF
Title: H.B. 96A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Specifies procedures for hearings and appeals regarding the provision of special education and related services to children with exceptionalities. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/021ES/CVT7/OUT/0000JJ2C.PDF
Title: H.B. 94A
Source: www.legis.state.la.us |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 10/2001 |
Postsec. |
Provides for policies addressing academic issues of student members of uniformed services; prohibits undue penalties against student members of the uniformed services called to active service; requires the Board of Regents and the management boards of public postsecondary education, proprietary schools, and nonpublic colleges and universities to adopt certain policies.
Title: H.B. 13B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Specifies that adult basic education and literacy training are within the definition of vocational education training for purposes of Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) programs.
Title: H.B. 1759
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 |
, Requires with certain exceptions, persons having control of a child to send such child to school from the child's seventh birthday until his eighteenth birthday rather than his seventeenth birthday.
Title: H.B. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires charter schools that fail to open or that close for any reason to refund all cash on hand to the state or local school district.
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
Postsec. |
Relates to Tuition Opportunity Program for Students; provides for a uniform information reporting system and for certain notifications to parents of public elementary and secondary school students.
Title: H.B. 2012
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students; provides eligibility for TOPS-Tech and Opportunity awards for certain students who graduate from high schools or complete home study programs outside the U.S. and its territories.
Title: H.B. 1800
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
Postsec. |
Permits certain high school students completing honors courses and having a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 to qualify for TOPS Performance Awards under specified circumstances.
Title: H.B. 1945
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
Postsec. |
Authorizes each public postsecondary education management board to establish tuition and mandatory attendance fee amounts applicable to students who are Louisiana residents and to adjust such amounts, within certain limitations.
Title: H.B. 2007
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 |
Amends and reenacts Children's Code Article 412(H)(1)(a), relative to notice to schools when students are involved in the juvenile correction system; to clarify that transmission to schools of pertinent portions of predisposition reports affecting students who are involved in the juvenile correction system is mandatory; to specify the age of the students to which these provisions apply; and to provide for related matters.
Title: H.B. 1805
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 |
, Authorizes local school boards to lease school buses from their school bus operators under certain circumstances; provides an exception to the Code of Governmental Ethics for the leases.
Title: H.B. 1955
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 07/2001 |
P-12 |
Deletes the provisions requiring teachers (contingent upon salary increases) to work an additional three days for staff development.
Title: H.B. 1447
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
, Provides for completion of educational courses, including a General Education Development course, or other programs offered at juvenile facilities.
Title: H.B. 1638
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes youth development and assistance programs for elementary students at risk of having disciplinary problems; requires parental involvement in such programs.
Title: S.B. 1035
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Establishes a program of suicide prevention in public schools.
Title: S.B. 792
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires in a criminal history review of a school employee the reporting of all felonies and all offenses against a minor of which a person has been convicted or pled nolo contendere.
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Changes references in the high school career options program from a vocational major to a career major and provides for program reporting requirements.
Title: S.B. 113
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to requirements for enrolling at-risk pupils in certain charter schools in certain parishes. For Type 2, Type 3, and Type 4 charter schools in any parish having a population of between 20,000 and 521,000 according to the most recent census, the percentage of the total number of pupils enrolled in the charter school based on the October 1st pupil membership who are at risk shall be, as near as practicable, not more than the percentage of the total number of pupils enrolled in the public elementary and secondary schools and in the state-approved nonpublic elementary and secondary schools located in the local public school district in which the charter school is located who are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced lunch program. However, in no case shall the final initial enrollment nor the cohort of students enrolled for each new school year have, as near as practicable, fewer than 50% of students who are at risk.
Title: H.B. 794
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
, Relates to the chartering process for charter schools, procedures for application and budget submission to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, funding adjustments and allocations, litigation costs, pupil counts, and exemptions; provides that if litigation becomes necessary to recover public funds from a charter school, the school is responsible for all court costs and expenses; provides for the formation of nonprofit corporations to propose charter schools.
Title: H.B. 1282
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the enrollment of a pupil in a school system adjoining his districted system when the transportation of the pupil equals or exceeds one hour.
Title: S.B. 1052
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school systems to offer instruction in personal financial management to students, provided such instruction is integrated into an existing course of study.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides for an exception from the Ethics Code to allow former city/parish school board members to contract with, be employed by, or be appointed by such board to any position with such board which requires a teacher's certificate.
Title: S.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Medicaid Trust Fund For School-Based Services.
Title: S.B. 757
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Adds school administrators as eligible to earn the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification salary adjustment of $ 5000 and extends the period of eligibility for such adjustment to certified by 7/1/10.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Establishes a program of universal early childhood education and care classes for four-year olds in any public school system that wishes to participate.
Title: S.B. 776
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes the Board of Regents to establish learning centers and to provide for their operation, management, and supervision.
The Board of Regents may establish learning centers designed to develop and use consortia of existing institutions of postsecondary education to provide comprehensive offerings of college courses and programs in areas of the state not adequately provided with postsecondary education services. However, no learning center shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section in any service delivery area as defined by the Board of Regents and in which educational services are provided by one or more public community colleges unless the establishment of the learning center is approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
Title: S.B. 829
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Prohibits a TOPS award recipient from being restricted or otherwise delayed in first using the award due to the student having graduated from high school in less than four years.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Provides for administration of, participation in, and alternative investment options relative to the Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust.
Creates the Louisiana Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust Program which may hereafter be referred to as the "START" Program. The program shall consist of the establishment of education savings accounts by individuals, groups, or organizations and provisions for the routine deposit of funds to cover the future educational costs of a designated beneficiary.
Title: S.B. 690
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Lowers the required ACT score for a TOPS Tech award from 19 to 17, beginning with the 2000 - 2001 high school graduates.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
, Extends through the 2002-2003 school year the time period for a TOPS waiver form meeting high school core curriculum requirements due to course unavailability.
Title: H.B. 818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
(Sub. for HB 1915) Permits public postsecondary education management boards to establish proportional tuition and mandatory attendance fee amounts.
Title: H.B. 2059
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
, Relates to the investment of state funds; authorizes the investment of stocks or certain funds of institutions of higher education or their management boards.
Title: H.B. 1322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
Postsec. |
Changes the student member term of office to the Board of Regents and the postsecondary education management boards to begin on June 1 or each year.
Title: S.B. 439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Adds the requirement that every public body provide an opportunity for public comment at meetings, subject to reasonable rules and restrictions adopted by the public body; specifies that public comment at school board meetings which mandates that public comment be allowed before a vote on each agenda item.
Title: H.B. 15
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
, Increase the minimum number of instructional school days per school year in public elementary and secondary schools form 175 to 177.
Title: H.B. 458
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
, Requires make-up days when school board closes school as the result of school employees threatening or failing to appear for work.
Title: S.B. 702
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires all schools to have a written crisis management and response plan in place by 1/1/02.
Title: S.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local school boards to adopt zero-tolerance policies for disciplining students; includes certain requirements in such policies; charges fees relative to such requirements.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides for a salary supplement for certain school counselors who have met the requirements and acquired the National Board of Certified Counselors credential.
Title: S.B. 247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to public records laws; exempts public school students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers from such law; provides exceptions; provides for effectiveness; provides for related matters.
Title: H.B. 29
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires the transfer of student education records within 10 days of receipt of a written request by an educational facility.
Title: S.B. 118
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Repeals all "reemployment of retiree" laws and replaces them with one law allowing full salary and full benefits after the lapse of a 12-month waiting period and allows substitutes to return immediately for limited service.
Title: H.B. 914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
Adds the agency from which a member retired, any public school system, and any special education district to the list of employers where a Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System retiree cannot be reemployed, relative to the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 1359
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2001 |
P-12 |
, Repeals all reemployment of retiree laws and replaces them with one law allowing full salary and full benefits after the lapse of a 12-month waiting period, relative to the Teachers' Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 1340
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires each city, parish and other local public school board to adopt a policy establishing uniform procedures for the investigation of employees accused of irregularities or improprieties in the administration of standardized tests.
Title: H.B. 482
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Amends and reenacts R. S. 17:3997(A)(1), relative to charter school employees; to provide for the authority of a charter school to employ faculty and staff; to permit certain contracts between a nonprofit organization and a for-profit organization to manage a charter school; to provide for the delegation by a nonprofit organization of authority over employment decisions at the charter school; and to provide for related matters.
Title: H.B. 1401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Provides procedural safeguards with respect to children with exceptionalities; to provide relative to procedures for hearings and appeals regarding the provision of special education and related services to such children; to provide certain time limitations for such hearings and appeals; and to provide for related matters.
Title: H.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Records/Rights |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes school boards to adopt policies to provide for disclosing information about students to officials within the juvenile justice system.
Title: H.B. 856
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Extends from one to three years the length of time for which certain out-of-state teachers are granted nonrenewable provisional teaching certification.
Title: H.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Critical Teacher Shortage Incentive Program. The program provides newly certified teachers who agree to practice in their profession as a classroom teacher in elementary or secondary schools in the area of mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics or special education, three thousand dollars per year for the first four consecutive years for which they practice.
Title: H.B. 651
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 07/2000 |
Postsec. |
Removes the waiting period and lessons the earnings limit applicable upon reemployment of certain retired employees of colleges and universities who have attained at least age 62.
Title: H.B. 18B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
Postsec. |
Makes deposits to the START Tuition Savings Program exempt from state income tax and provides for direct deposit of state income tax refunds.
Title: S.B. 81
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Faculty |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Goal is to increase pay for elementary and secondary teachers in amount necessary (determined by legislature) to annually achieve statewide average equal to the Southern Regional Education Board average. Same applies to postsecondary faculty. Provides 4% for all other personnel of elementary and secondary systems and of universities under jurisdiction of the Board of Regents in amounts as determined by the legislature. Not less than 80% of monies in Educational Enhancement Fund to be used for pay increases and other purposes.
Title: H.B. 30B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Exempts certain testing instruments, test answers, and individual student test scores from the public records laws.
Title: S.B. 33A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Makes several changes to the "Proprietary School Law" including the fact that it allows for proprietary certificates to be good for two years instead of one, and it provides for a punishment for schools that do not keep records of their students.
Title: S.B. 72A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Demographics--Enrollments |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to school attendance; specifies that city and parish school boards must have a policy to place and educate foster children and may not deny enrollment to a child because he or she is in foster care.
Title: S.B. 24A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Litigation |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Increases Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) award amounts based on college performance for certain students who qualified for Performance or Honors awards and who chose instead to receive Opportunity Awards.
Title: H.B. 224A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) eligibility for certain otherwise qualified students who graduated from high school during the 1998-1999 school year and who obtained a qualifying ACT score after graduating but prior to July 1, 1999.
Title: H.B. 159A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Permits recipients of the Tuition Opportunity Program, and Honors awards to pursue skill or occupational training, including a vocational or technical education certificate or diploma program or a nonacademic undergraduate degree.
Title: S.B. 97A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Specifies that local educational agencies are not responsible for replacing or repairing lost, stolen, or misused assistive technology devices provided to children with disabilities or their parents or guardians.
Title: S.B. 87A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the evaluation of school personnel; provides relative to the powers and duties of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; provides relative to the monitoring of evaluation programs by the state Department of Education; relates to the implementation of such programs.
Title: S.B. 23A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted |
P-12 |
Revises requirements for K-12 school counselor certification and endorsements (to existing certificates). Requires the completion of a master's degree program from a regionally accredited college or university that has met the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program (CACREP) guidelines for a standards based program in school counseling. Requires that the program include a practicum/internship in school counseling, and that the individual receive a passing score on the PRAXIS examination in school guidance and counseling.
Pages 60-61 of 133: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/1206/1206.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.405 and 659
Source: www.doa.louisiana.gov |