Louisiana Code — 17
Browse 1,703 sections in division 17 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § RS 17:1. State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; creation; membership; terms of office; vacancies
- § RS 17:2. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 106, §2.
- § RS 17:2.2. Districts for election of members of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
- § RS 17:3. Domicile; organization and meetings of board
- § RS 17:3.1. Internet broadcast of board and committee meetings; archives
- § RS 17:4. Transfer of obligations, etc. of state board of education
- § RS 17:5. Compensation of board members
- § RS 17:6. General powers of board
- § RS 17:6.1. Rulemaking
- § RS 17:7. Duties, functions, and responsibilities of board
- § RS 17:7.1. Certification of teachers; certification of principals and superintendents; certification of school psychologists
- § RS 17:7.2. Approved teacher education programs
- § RS 17:7.3. Continuing education programs for teachers; reimbursement to public and nonpublic colleges and universities for tuition costs; rules and regulations; reporting; repayment for noncompletion of courses; services rendered
- § RS 17:7.4. Continuing education program for paraprofessionals; tuition exemptions; rules and regulations; eligibility; reporting; repayment for noncompletion of courses
- § RS 17:7.5. Alternative educational programs of instruction; submission of plans; board approval; program monitoring
- § RS 17:7.6. Geaux Teach Program and Geaux Teach Fund
- § RS 17:7.7. Continuing education pilot program for school support personnel in schools; reimbursement to public and nonpublic colleges and universities for tuition costs; rules and regulations; reporting; repayment for noncompletion of courses
- § RS 17:7.8. Associate educator program; authority; rules; participant requirements
- § RS 17:8. Students impacted by declaration of public health emergency; 2019-2020 school year
- § RS 17:8.1. Certification of teachers; parental notification
- § RS 17:8.2. Teacher certification examinations
- § RS 17:8.3. Provisional teaching permit
- § RS 17:8.4. Certification of principals and superintendents
- § RS 17:8.5. Certification of foreign associate teachers
- § RS 17:8.6. Qualifications of school psychologists
- § RS 17:8.7. Prohibition against granting an educator credential or teaching authorization to certain persons; appeals
- § RS 17:8.8. Certification appeals; appeals council; membership; duties; reporting
- § RS 17:8.9. Criminal history reviews for certification, teaching permits, or teacher authorizations; state repository
- § RS 17:9. Authority to execute mineral leases; approval by mineral board
- § RS 17:10. Approval of public schools; standards; enforcement of standards; effect of failure of a public school to meet and maintain standards
- § RS 17:10.1. School and district accountability system; purpose; responsibilities of state board
- § RS 17:10.2. School and district accountability system; trend data profiles; employee incentive awards
- § RS 17:10.3. School and district accountability; prohibited testing; exceptions
- § RS 17:10.4. Distinguished Educators Program
- § RS 17:10.5. School and district accountability; failing schools; transfer to Recovery School District; parent petitions
- § RS 17:10.6. School and district accountability; school systems academically in crisis; definitions; audit and accounting requirements
- § RS 17:10.7. School and district accountability; schools in districts in academic crisis; transfer to Recovery School District
- § RS 17:10.7.1. Return of certain schools from the Recovery School District to the transferring school system; timeline; conditions; funding
- § RS 17:10.8. School and district accountability system; early intervention program; purpose; responsibilities of state board
- § RS 17:10.9. Accountability; office of juvenile justice schools
- § RS 17:11. Approval of nonpublic schools by board
- § RS 17:12. Census of educables; use of federal census
- § RS 17:13.1. Crime Prevention in Schools Act
- § RS 17:14.1. Family literacy demonstration program
- § RS 17:15. Criminal history review
- § RS 17:16. Reporting of certain arrests; school employees; requirements; failure to report
- § RS 17:17. Physical fitness; students; findings; purpose
- § RS 17:17.1. Required physical activity in schools
- § RS 17:17.2. Physical activity; awards for model programs
- § RS 17:17.3. Physical fitness; pilot program
- § RS 17:17.4. Health and physical education coordinator; duties; qualifications
- § RS 17:17.5. Physical fitness assessment; statewide expansion program
- § RS 17:17.6. Targeted coordinated school health program
- § RS 17:17.7. Required recess
- § RS 17:17.8. Health Education requirement; virtual course
- § RS 17:21. Superintendent of education for public elementary and secondary education; general functions; appointment qualifications; vacancies; compensation
- § RS 17:22. Superintendent; functions and duties
- § RS 17:22.1. Superintendent; chief operating officer; assignment to local school systems
- § RS 17:24. State Department of Education; creation; divisions; reorganization
- § RS 17:24.1. State Department of Education; in-service training programs
- § RS 17:24.2. Department of Education; teacher selection; technical assistance
- § RS 17:24.4. Louisiana Competency-Based Education Program; statewide standards for required subjects; Louisiana Educational Assessment Program; parish or city school board comprehensive pupil progression plans; waivers
- § RS 17:24.5. Review of elementary and secondary school facilities
- § RS 17:24.6. Writing courses for students in grades seven through twelve; pilot projects
- § RS 17:24.7. Extended kindergarten; pilot project
- § RS 17:24.8. Prekindergarten programs
- § RS 17:24.9. Quality early literacy initiative; legislative findings; development; criteria; implementation; limitations
- § RS 17:24.10. Early literacy instruction and screening; foundational numeracy skills instruction and screening; parental notification; reporting
- § RS 17:24.11. Early literacy; promotion to fourth grade
- § RS 17:24.12. Early literacy professional development; purpose; requirements; reporting; funding
- § RS 17:24.13. Numeracy professional development; purpose; requirements; reporting; funding
- § RS 17:25. Funds for parish and city school boards; warrants
- § RS 17:25.1. Minimum foundation program; date for payments
- § RS 17:26. Expenses of superintendent and employees
- § RS 17:27. Superintendent's records; use of certified copies as evidence
- § RS 17:28. Certified school nurses; city and parish school systems; plan development, adoption, and implementation
- § RS 17:29. Social workers; failing schools; applicability
- § RS 17:41. Attorney general and superintendent; opinions and advice
- § RS 17:42. References in laws to board and superintendent
- § RS 17:43. Special Schools defined; benefits for certificated teachers; legislative policy
- § RS 17:46. Sabbatical leave program
- § RS 17:47. Sick and personal leave
- § RS 17:48. Maternity leave; adoptive leave
- § RS 17:49. Military leave
- § RS 17:51. Parish boards as bodies corporate; power to sue and be sued; service of citation
- § RS 17:52. Election and qualification of members; term of office
- § RS 17:52.1. Appointment of new members upon increase in membership
- § RS 17:52.2. Lafayette Parish School Board; election of members; terms
- § RS 17:53. School board members; training required
- § RS 17:54. Officers of boards; election; superintendents; qualifications; appointment and removal
- § RS 17:55. Executive committees; appointment
- § RS 17:56. Compensation of board members and executive committee members
- § RS 17:56.1. St. Tammany Parish School Board; compensation of members
- § RS 17:57. Representation of municipalities on parish boards
- § RS 17:58. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board; membership
- § RS 17:58.1. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board; interim successors; terms
- § RS 17:58.2. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board; reapportionment; election districts; terms
- § RS 17:58.3. East Baton Rouge Parish School Board; compensation of members
- § RS 17:59. General fund of parish school boards
- § RS 17:60.1. Jefferson Parish School Board
- § RS 17:60.2. Jefferson Parish School Board; reapportionment
- § RS 17:60.3. Jefferson Parish School Board; term limits
- § RS 17:60.4. School board members; term limits; local election
- § RS 17:61. Caddo Parish School Board; number of members; election; determination of membership; districts; terms; remuneration; qualifications; vacancies
- § RS 17:62. Lafayette Parish School Board; term limits; voter approval
- § RS 17:63. Iberville Parish School Board; number of members; districts
- § RS 17:64. Zachary Community School Board and school system; creation; membership; qualifications; apportionment; election; powers, duties, and functions; system operation
- § RS 17:64.1. Zachary community school system; interim school board
- § RS 17:66. Central Community School Board and school system; creation; membership; qualifications; apportionment; election; powers, duties, and functions; system operation
- § RS 17:67. Southeast Baton Rouge Community School Board and school system; creation; membership; qualifications; apportionment; election; powers, duties, and functions; system operation
- § RS 17:67.1. Southeast Baton Rouge Community School System; interim school board
- § RS 17:67.2. Redistribution of minimum foundation program to other school systems
- § RS 17:67.2.1. Unfunded accrued liability; payment
- § RS 17:67.3. Benefits of reemployed retirees and Legacy Benefit Trust Fund for Retirees of East Baton Rouge Parish School System
- § RS 17:67.4. Payments to East Baton Rouge Parish Educational Facilities Improvement District
- § RS 17:68.1. St. George Community School Board and school system; creation; membership; qualifications; apportionment; election; powers, duties, functions; and system operation
- § RS 17:68.2. St. George Community School System; interim school board; interim school superintendent
- § RS 17:68.3. Redistribution of Minimum Foundation Program to other school systems
- § RS 17:68.4. Unfunded accrued liability; payment
- § RS 17:68.5. Benefits of reemployed retirees and Legacy Benefit Trust Fund for Retirees of East Baton Rouge Parish School System
- § RS 17:68.6. Payments to East Baton Rouge Parish Educational Facilities Improvement District
- § RS 17:68.7. Mutual agreements regarding distribution of assets and liabilities between school boards
- § RS 17:71.1. Authority for reapportionment; basis
- § RS 17:71.2. Maximum and minimum size of boards; four-year concurrent terms
- § RS 17:71.3. Procedure for accomplishing reapportionment; special election districts; effective date of same
- § RS 17:71.4. Effective date of such reapportionment
- § RS 17:71.5. Reapportionment; reorganization
- § RS 17:71.6. Purpose and intent of Subpart
- § RS 17:71.7. School boards affected by federal court ordered reapportionment plans
- § RS 17:72. Baker School Board; election districts; compensation of members; exercise of powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities; operation of city of Baker municipal school system
- § RS 17:72.1. City of Baker interim school board
- § RS 17:81. General powers of local public school boards
- § RS 17:81.2. Acceptance of nonlocal funds without prior approval prohibited
- § RS 17:81.3. School bands; expenses
- § RS 17:81.4. Reductions in force; dismissal of teachers and other school employees
- § RS 17:81.5. School employees; procedure for dismissal
- § RS 17:81.6. Investigation of employees; reporting of certain irregularities or improprieties; prohibited actions; penalties; remedies
- § RS 17:81.7. Employee reports of criminal activity; law enforcement response
- § RS 17:81.8. Employee demotion; investigation
- § RS 17:81.9. School board policies; hiring procedures; statements; requirements
- § RS 17:82. Lunch departments, authority to operate
- § RS 17:83. Presidents of boards; duties; contracts with teachers, superintendents' duty to sign
- § RS 17:84. Deputy parish superintendents, assistant superintendents, supervisors, and other employees; boards' authority to appoint
- § RS 17:84.1. School janitors, school custodians, school maintenance employees; board's authority to employ; age limitation
- § RS 17:84.01. Assistant superintendents in certain districts; term of appointment; discharge for cause; other permanent status
- § RS 17:84.2. School boards; requirement to employ a business manager or chief financial officer; minimum standards
- § RS 17:85. Naming of street or athletic facility by school boards
- § RS 17:85.1. Naming of gymnasium at Monterey High School
- § RS 17:85.4. Naming of curriculum center; St. Tammany Parish School Board
- § RS 17:85.6. Naming of a headstart and community center; Jefferson Davis Parish School Board
- § RS 17:85.7. Naming of Reserve Officers' Training Corps building at West Monroe High School
- § RS 17:85.13. Naming of stadium by certain school boards
- § RS 17:85.14. Naming of a performing arts center by certain school boards
- § RS 17:86. Expenses of special sessions for teachers, boards' authority to pay
- § RS 17:87. Lease or sale of school lands or of timber thereon; disposition of revenues
- § RS 17:87.1. Rights-of-way across and through sixteenth section lands
- § RS 17:87.2. Application for right-of-way over school lands; notice; advertisement; objections; terms and conditions of grant
- § RS 17:87.3. Disposition of revenues received from grants
- § RS 17:87.4. Rights-of-way across sixteenth section lands
- § RS 17:87.5. Surveys by state; approval by parish school board; agreements with landowners
- § RS 17:87.6. School property; alienation by school boards
- § RS 17:87.7. School property; school board may require liability insurance for use
- § RS 17:87.8. Leasing of sixteenth section lands for hunting and trapping; procedure
- § RS 17:88. Budget of expected revenues and expenditures; boards' duty to adopt; submission to state superintendent of education with a copy to the legislative auditor
- § RS 17:88.1. Posting of public school governing authority fiscal information
- § RS 17:89. Financial operation of boards on fiscal year basis; restrictions on expenditures; penalty for excessive borrowing
- § RS 17:89.1. Pledge and deposit of Minimum Foundation Equalization Distribution Funds
- § RS 17:90. Office of parish superintendents, location
- § RS 17:91. City, parish, and other local public school superintendents; supervisory duties
- § RS 17:92. Financial reports of parish superintendents to the state Department of Education
- § RS 17:93. Superintendents to keep records and furnish requested information
- § RS 17:94. Oaths of office; superintendents' duty to administer
- § RS 17:95. Superintendents as treasurers of school funds
- § RS 17:96. Treasurer's duty to demand funds from predecessor
- § RS 17:97. Disbursement of parish and city school funds; use of facsimile signatures on checks; bond required
- § RS 17:97.1. Formula for minimum foundation program; certain local funds not to be used
- § RS 17:97.2. Formula for minimum foundation program; additional funds not to be used in formula
- § RS 17:99. Investment of funds
- § RS 17:100. Parishes authorized to aid in construction of schools
- § RS 17:100.1. Alternative educational programs; certain adjudicated students; students in the custody of the office of juvenile justice; funding; authority of the local school board to contract; inclusion in minimum foundation program; funding formula
- § RS 17:100.2. Multiparish compacts
- § RS 17:100.3. Exception to multiparish compacts
- § RS 17:100.4. Grievance procedures for teachers and other school employees
- § RS 17:100.5. Alternative schools; establishment by local boards
- § RS 17:100.6. School property; jurisdiction
- § RS 17:100.7. Policies; governing authorities of public elementary and secondary schools; internet and online sites; access by students and employees; resources for parents; exceptions
- § RS 17:100.8. Student biometric information; collection and use
- § RS 17:100.10. Public School Facilities Financing Act
- § RS 17:100.11. School facilities preservation; certain districts
- § RS 17:100.12. Systemwide needs program
- § RS 17:100.13. Expanded academic support
- § RS 17:100.14. Public school buildings; water bottle filling stations
- § RS 17:101. Children of military families; registration prior to residency; preliminary enrollment
- § RS 17:104.1. Local boards; authority; effect of provisional custody by mandate
- § RS 17:105. Admission to schools in adjoining parishes
- § RS 17:105.1. Transfer to schools in an adjoining school system; conditions; exceptions; funding
- § RS 17:105.2. Local public school boards; agreements for the management and operation of low-performing schools
- § RS 17:106. Objections and requests; hearings and investigations
- § RS 17:108. Findings and actions of board as final; appeals
- § RS 17:109. Appearance of attorney general; costs
- § RS 17:110. Immunity of school boards and agents
- § RS 17:111. Discrimination in public schools prohibited; pupil assignment; religious educational institutions
- § RS 17:112. Student academic and disciplinary records; transfer; parental rights
- § RS 17:121. Orleans Parish; election and terms of members; apportionment; qualifications; compensation; vacancies; prohibited acts
- § RS 17:122. Application of general laws and regulations of state board of education
- § RS 17:123. Superintendent of schools as treasurer of board; bond
- § RS 17:124. Appropriations, authority to make
- § RS 17:125. Normal schools; authority to maintain; salary schedules
- § RS 17:126. Courses of study and text books; authority to adopt
- § RS 17:127. Revenues of parish school board; duty to secure
- § RS 17:128. Contracts; bids
- § RS 17:151. Public schools; establishment by parish boards; pupil-classroom-teacher ratios
- § RS 17:151.1. Additional grades in secondary schools; establishment by local boards; approval of degrees, diplomas, and certificates
- § RS 17:151.2. Consolidated multiparish vocational-technical school districts; St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and St. James Parish
- § RS 17:151.3. Kindergarten; establishment; entrance age; prerequisites
- § RS 17:152. Minimum average attendance required for maintenance of schools
- § RS 17:153. Agreements for combination of public and parochial schools prohibited
- § RS 17:154. Curriculum; length of school periods
- § RS 17:154.1. Length of school day and year; requirements
- § RS 17:154.2. Enrollment of students with special needs
- § RS 17:154.3. School schedules; minimum work days; instructional days
- § RS 17:154.4. School schedules; additional instructional days; employee work stoppages
- § RS 17:155. Attendance of pupils in schools of adjoining parishes or cities; per capita cost of instruction
- § RS 17:156. Physical examination for students
- § RS 17:157. Ferries, roads, and toll bridges; free passage to students
- § RS 17:158. School buses for transportation of students; employment of bus operators; alternative means of transportation; improvement of school bus turnarounds; loading and unloading students
- § RS 17:158.1. Purchase of school buses; athletic departments of high schools
- § RS 17:158.2. Purchase of school buses; resale to bus operators
- § RS 17:158.3. Purchase of school buses; pooling of purchases by school boards
- § RS 17:158.4. Purchase of school buses; ninety passenger capacity
- § RS 17:158.5. Purchase of school buses; specifications required
- § RS 17:158.6. School Bus Purchase Program; creation; purpose; administration
- § RS 17:158.7. Lease of school buses from school bus operators
- § RS 17:159. Insurance against injury to pupils transported to school
- § RS 17:159.1. Insurance on privately owned school busses; withholding amounts to pay premiums; governmental immunity no defense
- § RS 17:159.2. Insurance premiums as obligation of boards; privately owned buses
- § RS 17:160. School bus operators under eighteen years of age prohibited; penalty
- § RS 17:161.
- § RS 17:161.1. School buses in Orleans Parish; lettering requirements
- § RS 17:162. School busses purchased for private use
- § RS 17:163. Penalties
- § RS 17:164. Regulations relating to construction, design, equipment, and operation of school buses
- § RS 17:164.1. Additional regulations; crossing control device required; compliance
- § RS 17:164.2. Additional regulations; occupant restraint systems required; compliance
- § RS 17:165. Penalty for violation of regulations
- § RS 17:166. Promulgation of rules and regulations
- § RS 17:166.1. School transportation of students; alternative means of transportation
- § RS 17:167. Certification of child's age upon entering a parish or city school system or private school for the first time; proof of age to qualify for athletic event participation
- § RS 17:168. Cities or parishes with 300,000 or more population; extra duties of school bus operators
- § RS 17:169. Insurance covering students participating in athletics and sports
- § RS 17:170. Immunization of persons entering schools, kindergartens, colleges, proprietary or vocational schools, and day care centers for the first time; immunization of persons entering sixth grade; electronic transmission of immunization compliance reports; exemption
- § RS 17:170.1. Immunizations of persons registering for courses at postsecondary education institutions requirements; exceptions; electronic transmission of immunization compliance reports
- § RS 17:170.2. Immunization information; meningococcal disease
- § RS 17:170.3. Immunization information; human papillomavirus
- § RS 17:170.4. Immunizations of certain persons against meningococcal disease; exceptions
- § RS 17:170.5. Immunization information; influenza
- § RS 17:171. Health insurance eligibility status of students attending certain schools
- § RS 17:172. Procedures for making complaints or requesting information from schools; parental notification; rules and regulations
- § RS 17:173. Behavioral health services for students
- § RS 17:173.1. Mental health assessments
- § RS 17:174. Class size; maximum
- § RS 17:175. Course registration in any public secondary school; course registration information; school boards; parents
- § RS 17:176. Extracurricular activities; interscholastic athletics; participation; standards; prohibitions; filming or videotaping; definitions
- § RS 17:176.1. Field trips and extracurricular activities; rules and procedures
- § RS 17:176.2. Extracurricular activities; interscholastic athletics; participation by home study students
- § RS 17:177. Student fees; policies
- § RS 17:178. School supplies
- § RS 17:179. Student identification badges; authorization and display; Rapides Parish School Board; rules and regulations
- § RS 17:180. Pilot program; decisionmaking skills; participating school systems; implementation; funding
- § RS 17:181. Vocational agricultural, agribusiness, and agriscience programs; funding
- § RS 17:182. Protective custody
- § RS 17:182.1. Homework assistance
- § RS 17:183. Hazing; public elementary and secondary students; intent and findings; definitions; policies
- § RS 17:183.1. Purpose
- § RS 17:183.2. Career option description
- § RS 17:183.3. Career major; description; curriculum and graduation requirements
- § RS 17:183.4. Vocational and technical education; partnering with other schools to provide courses
- § RS 17:183.5. Methods of program development; options to aid in curriculum design; career major teachers
- § RS 17:184. Uniform grading scale
- § RS 17:185.1. Short title
- § RS 17:185.2. Agricultural education; legislative findings; intent
- § RS 17:185.3. Agricultural education; state action plan
- § RS 17:185.4. Agricultural Education Commission
- § RS 17:185.5. Agricultural Education Immersion Program; pilot
- § RS 17:185.6. Effectiveness
- § RS 17:187.1. Short title
- § RS 17:187.2. Computer science education; legislative findings; intent
- § RS 17:187.3. Computer Science Education Advisory Commission; establishment, members, and purpose
- § RS 17:187.4. State action plan for computer science education
- § RS 17:187.5. Funding
- § RS 17:191. Terms defined
- § RS 17:192. Lunches and breakfasts; duty to furnish
- § RS 17:192.1. Meals; denial to students; procedures
- § RS 17:192.2. Imported seafood; prohibition
- § RS 17:193. Federal funds for nutrition programs; state Department of Education's authority to receive
- § RS 17:194. Administration of nutrition program; general powers of governing authorities of nutrition program providers; funds for privately supplied programs for profit prohibited; exceptions
- § RS 17:195. Operation of nutrition program; general powers of governing authorities of nutrition program providers; forbidden acts; penalties
- § RS 17:195.1. Louisiana Farm to School Program
- § RS 17:195.2. Lifestyle choices pilot program
- § RS 17:196. Rules and regulations; state Department of Education's duty to prescribe