Source: http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/law.aspx?d=81197
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 07:57:17+00:00

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A.(1) Each local public school board shall serve in a policymaking capacity that is in the best interests of all students enrolled in schools under the board's jurisdiction. When establishing board policies, each board shall prioritize student achievement, financial efficiency, and workforce development on a local, regional, and statewide basis. When choosing a local superintendent of schools, each board shall select a leader who shall prioritize student achievement and act in the best interests of all students enrolled in schools under the board's jurisdiction.
(7)(a) Any person purporting to enter into any contract on behalf of the school district or schools under the board's jurisdiction, including but not limited to contracts with vendors or contracts of membership in any private or quasi-public entity, shall do so in compliance with policies and procedures adopted by the local public school board in effect at the time the contract is executed.
D.(1) The regular meetings of each city and parish school board shall be held at least once each month on such day as each board shall select. Additional regular meetings may be held as each board designates. Special meetings may be held as boards determine or as occasion may require.
E.(1) Each city or parish school board shall exercise proper vigilance in securing for the schools of the district all funds destined for the support of the schools, including the state funds apportioned thereto, and all other funds.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule or regulation to the contrary, a city or parish school board shall have the authority, if otherwise applicable, to apply for, receive, and expend funds from public and private sources that are or may be made available to certain classes of child care providers and to administer in elementary schools under the board's jurisdiction, child care programs related to such funding. Additionally, any public college or university offering preschool educational programs shall have the authority, if otherwise applicable, to apply for, receive, and expend funds from public and private sources that are or may be made available to certain classes of child care providers and to administer, in facilities under its jurisdiction, child care programs related to such funding. Nothing in this Paragraph shall be construed to affect the authority of any approved nonpublic school to apply for and administer such funds.
I. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 1, §4, July 1, 2012.
J.(1) Each city and parish school board may purchase appropriate metal detection devices and shall provide training to school administrators consistent with that provided as required in Paragraph (3) of this Subsection if metal detectors are going to be used in the system.
K.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule or regulation to the contrary, any city or parish school board member and any other person authorized pursuant to written policy of a city or parish school board shall have the right to examine any or all records of the school system except school employee records relative to evaluations, observations, formal complaints, and grievances.
(3) Should an employee's personnel file be accessed by the city or parish school board, the employee whose file was so accessed shall receive written notice of such action, and the individual city or parish school board members shall maintain the confidentiality of any documents in the file so examined.
L. Repealed by Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 41, §2.
M.(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and in addition to the authority provided by Chapter 2-A of Code Title II of Code Book III of Title 9 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 relative to the creation of a public trust, a public trust having a city or parish school board as its beneficiary may be created to be funded by surplus revenues of the beneficiary school board and with the use of income produced by the trust restricted to meeting the capital outlay needs of the school system, including but not limited to the purchase of school buses, the construction or acquisition of school buildings and facilities, or both, and the funding of nonrecurring projects to improve instructional services to students in the classroom.
O.(1) By not later than the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, each city, parish, or other local public school board shall adopt policies and procedures providing leave with pay for any school system employee who is an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana or the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System, an elected or appointed member of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or an appointed member of any task force, commission, or other advisory body established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education so that such employee may attend meetings of the entity and any committees thereof on which the employee serves.
P.(1) No board member shall act in an individual capacity to use the authority of his office or position as a member of the school board in a manner intended to interfere with, compel, or coerce any personnel decision made by the superintendent or a school principal, including the hiring, promotion, discipline, demotion, transfer, discharge, or assignment of work to any school employee. The superintendent, as the instructional leader of the district and its chief executive officer, shall have primary responsibility for personnel actions in the district.
Q.(1) Each city, parish, or other local public school board shall formulate, develop, adopt, and implement, by not later than November 15, 2009, policies, procedures, and practices applicable to school system employees relative to an electronic communication by an employee at a school to a student enrolled at that school.
(i) Provide a means to assure that a parent or other person responsible for a child's school attendance is fully informed of the policies, procedures, and practices.
(j) Provide a means for a parent or other person responsible for a child's school attendance to request that the child not be contacted through electronic communication by any school employee unless the purpose of such communication is directly related to the child's educational services and is sent to and received by more than one student at the school.
(5) For the purposes of this Subsection, the term "city, parish, or other local public school board" shall mean the governing authority of any public elementary or secondary school.
R.(1) Each city, parish, or other local public school board shall provide to high school students age and grade appropriate classroom instruction relative to the state's Safe Haven Law, Children's Code Article 1149 et seq., which provides a mechanism whereby any parent may relinquish the care of an infant who is not more than sixty days old to the state in safety and anonymity and without fear of prosecution.
S.(1) In addition to any other provision of applicable law, rule, regulation, or code, each city, parish, and other local public school board shall adopt and implement policies providing for inspections by qualified persons of all fire safety and prevention equipment, including but not limited to fire alarm and smoke detection devices at each school under its jurisdiction at least twice during each school year and to require that all necessary actions be taken by appropriate persons in a timely manner to assure that all such equipment is in good working order and meets the need for which intended. Such policies shall provide, at a minimum, that any employee of the board who performs an inspection pursuant to this Subsection shall have received the appropriate training necessary to perform such inspection, and documentation of such training shall be included in the employee's personnel file.
T.(1) Each school year the governing authority of each public school shall provide to students in grades seven through twelve enrolled in Health Education age and grade appropriate classroom instruction relative to dating violence.
(a) The definition of "dating violence", which is a pattern of behavior where one person threatens to use, or actually uses, physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse to control his or her dating partner.
(b) For the purposes of this Paragraph, for a charter school, the "local superintendent" shall mean the chief executive officer of the school or other employee holding an equivalent position.
V.(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no member of a city, parish, or other local public school board shall be prohibited from requesting, in writing or in open or executive session of the board, the status of any personnel matter. The requirement that any such request be in writing or made during an open or executive session of the board shall not apply when the board member has knowledge of the possible or alleged commission of a crime by a school board employee. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no member of a city, parish, or other local public school board shall be prohibited from providing information on due process, grievance procedures, hearings, and tenure to any constituent of the member upon the constituent's request. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no member of a city, parish, or other local public school board shall be prohibited from seeking or providing information on other issues regarding the operation of schools.
(2) The provisions of this Subsection are subject to other requirements of law relative to the confidentiality of information contained in an employee's personnel files.
(b) Training for students relative to the psychomotor skills necessary to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. For the purposes of this Subparagraph, "psychomotor skills" means skills that students are required to perform as hands-on practice to support cognitive learning. Students receiving the instruction required by this Subsection in a virtual school shall not be required to perform hands-on practice.
(i) Emergency medical technicians, paramedics, physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, police officers, deputy sheriffs, nurse practitioners, athletic trainers, firefighters, and any persons included in the definition of "health care provider" provided in R.S. 40:1299.41, each of whom shall be certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and must be currently licensed, certified, or commissioned according to his respective occupation in order to participate in providing such instruction. If it is in accordance with the laws, rules, or regulations governing his profession, if applicable, an instructor may apply the hours spent performing this instruction toward fulfilling professional requirements relative to performing community service.
(5) This Subsection may be referred to as "The Burke Cobb Act."
Y.(1) The governing authority of each public elementary and secondary school shall provide age- and grade-appropriate classroom instruction to all students relative to child assault awareness and prevention. Such instruction shall be limited to education on what constitutes abuse or an assault, and how students may safely and confidentially report to a school official the circumstances surrounding any such abuse or assaults.
(AA) The governing authority of each public school may require that at least one member of the coaching staff for each extracurricular sport offered by the school is certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid, and the use of an automated external defibrillator.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 452, §1; Acts 1976, No. 411, §1; Acts 1985, No. 603, §1, eff. July 13, 1985; Acts 1985, No. 565, §1; eff. July 12, 1985; Acts 1991, No. 521, §1, eff. July 15, 1991; Acts 1991, No. 881, §1, eff. July 23, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 425, §1; Acts 1993, No. 287, §1, eff. June 2, 1993; Acts 1993, No. 647, §1; Acts 1995, No. 261, §1, eff. June 14, 1995; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 42, §1; Acts 2001, No. 134, §1; Acts 2003, No. 376, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2003, No. 740, §1; Acts 2004, No. 748, §1; Acts 2006, No. 774, §1, eff. June 30, 2006; Acts 2009, No. 214, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 284, §2, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2009, No. 413, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2010, No. 321, §1, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 720, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 41, §2, eff. June 12, 2011; Acts 2012, No. 1, §§1, 4, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2012, No. 591, §1, eff. June 7, 2012; Acts 2013, No. 87, §1; Acts 2013, No. 329, §1; Acts 2014, No. 506, §1; Acts 2014, No. 517, §1; Acts 2014, No. 525, §1; Acts 2014, No. 547, §1, eff. June 9, 2014; Acts 2015, No. 297, §1; Acts 2016, No. 80, §2; Acts 2016, No. 149, §2; Acts 2016, No. 234, §1; Acts 2016, No. 347, §1.

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