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17:221 School attendance; compulsory ages; duty of parents; excessive absences; condition for driving privileges
A. (1) Every parent, tutor, or other person residing within the state of Louisiana having control or charge of any child from that child’s seventh birthday until his eighteenth birthday shall send such child to a public or private day school, unless the child graduates from high school prior to his eighteenth birthday. Any child below the age of seven who legally enrolls in school shall also be subject to the provisions of this Subpart. Every parent, tutor, or other person responsible for sending a child to a public or private day school under provisions of this Subpart shall also assure the attendance of such child in regularly assigned classes during regular school hours established by the school board and shall assure that such child is not habitually tardy from school pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 17:233.
B. (1) A city, parish, or other local public school board shall grant admission or readmission to school to any person who meets all of the following criteria:
D. Each school shall develop and implement a system whereby the school shall attempt to provide verbal notification and, if such verbal notification cannot be provided, then shall provide written notification to a child’s parent, tutor, or legal guardian when that child has been absent from school for five school days in schools operating on a semester basis, and for ten days in schools not operating on a semester basis.
E. Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 927, § 1.
I. Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a child who is at least sixteen years of age, who meets criteria established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for enrolling in an effective adult education program, from enrolling in and attending such a program. A parent, tutor, or other person responsible for the school attendance of a child who is at least sixteen years of age but under age eighteen and who is enrolled in and is fulfilling the attendance requirements of an adult education program shall be considered to be in compliance with the school attendance provisions of Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section. As used in this Subsection, an “effective adult education program” means an approved program that has demonstrated a proven record of student progress in the attainment of basic skills and essential competencies as determined by quality indicators and performance-based criteria developed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges in accordance with R.S. 17:3217.1(D)(2).
Acts 1964, No. 109, § 1. Amended by Acts 1966, No. 521, § 1; Acts 1976, No. 425, § 1; Acts 1979, No. 383, § 1; Acts 1981, No. 873, § 2, eff. Sept. 11, 1981; Acts 1986, No. 126, § 1; Acts 1987, No. 504, § 1, eff. July 9, 1987; Acts 1991, No. 757, § 1; Acts 1995, No. 79, § 1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2001, No. 1151, § 1, eff. July 1, 2001; Acts 2002, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 59, § 1, eff. July 1, 2002, for subsec. F and eff. April 18, 2002 for subsec. I; Acts 2008, No. 688, § 1, eff. June 1, 2009; Acts 2008, No. 742, § 1; Acts 2009, No. 305, § 2; Acts 2010, No. 132, § 1, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 699, § 1, eff. June 29, 2010; Acts 2010, No. 732, § 1, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2011, No. 166, § 1; Acts 2014, No. 411, § 1.