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LA Rev Stat § 17:221.7 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§221.7. Dropout prevention and recovery for expectant and parenting students

RS 221.7 - Dropout prevention and recovery for expectant and parenting students  A. The Louisiana Legislature recognizes the need to ensure that all students graduate from high school, despite the many challenges they may face. The legislature acknowledges that pregnancy is consistently the most common family-related reason given by female students who drop out of high school. Further, the legislature finds that federal Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects the rights of expectant and parenting students, and encompassed in that protection is the right to a safe and supportive school environment that promotes high school graduation.  B. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 establishes basic legal obligations of any educational program receiving federal assistance.  C.(1) Each governing authority of a public secondary school receiving federal financial assistance shall adopt a policy that complies with the requirements of federal Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.  (2) In addition to the basic legal obligations under federal Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the following key provisions shall be included in a school governing authority's policy regarding expectant and parenting students:  (a) Maintaining student confidentiality.  (b) Ensuring a safe and supportive learning environment.  (c) Promoting academic success.  (d) Implementing sensible attendance policies.  (3) Such policy shall be readily available to the public by posting on the website of the school or school governing authority, or by other appropriate means.  (4) The state Department of Education shall submit a written report to the Senate and House committees on education and health and welfare at least sixty days before the 2017 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature which shall include a summary of the aggregate data related to the graduation rate of expectant and parenting students, and any recommendations for changes in policy or legislation. However, in no case shall personally identifiable student information be reported.  Acts 2016, No. 523, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:222 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§222. School entrance; proof of age, race, and parentage required; exceptions

RS 222 - School entrance; proof of age, race, and parentage required; exceptions  A. All children upon entering a public or nonpublic school in the state of Louisiana for the first time shall be required to present a copy of their official birth record to the school principal. A short-form birth certification card shall be acceptable as a copy of an official birth record. Only records from the local or state registrar of vital statistics will be accepted for children born in Louisiana. Birth verification forms issued by the local registrar of the parish of birth shall be valid and acceptable.  B.(1) Children born in Louisiana will be given a fifteen-day grace period to secure a copy of their birth record. Children born out of this state will be given thirty days grace in which to produce a copy of their birth record.  (2) In cases where birth certificates or birth verification forms cannot be obtained, the school principal may accept whatever positive proof of age, race, and parentage is available. It shall be left to the discretion of the parish or city superintendent of schools, subject to the authority of the school board, as to whether or not a child shall continue in school upon failure to comply with this Section.  C.(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections A and B of this Section, the parish school boards in Jefferson and Orleans parishes may adopt, by rule, and enforce ages for entrance into first grade in the schools in their systems which vary from the provisions of this Section. All children admitted into school as a result of a rule adopted pursuant to this Subsection shall be counted in reports submitted for funding under the Minimum Foundation Program and money allocated pursuant to such program shall be based on the report which includes such children.  (2) The provisions of this Subsection shall become void on June 30, 2022.  Acts 1964, No. 109, §2; Acts 1984, No. 914, §1; Acts 1993, No. 530, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 118, §2, eff. April 19, 2000; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 41, §1, eff. June 12, 2011; Acts 2011, No. 102, §1; Acts 2021, No. 386, §1, eff. June 16, 2021.
LA Rev Stat § 17:223 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§223. Discipline of pupils; suspension from school

RS 223 - Discipline of pupils; suspension from school  A. Every teacher is authorized to hold every pupil to a strict accountability for any disorderly conduct in school or on the playground of the school, or on any school bus going to or returning from school, or during intermission or recess.  B. School principals may suspend from school any pupil for good cause as stated in R.S. 17:416. Principals shall notify the visiting teacher or supervisor of child welfare and attendance of all suspensions. In all cases of suspensions, the parent, the superintendent of schools, and the visiting teacher or supervisor of child welfare and attendance shall be notified in writing of the facts concerning each suspension, including reasons therefor and terms thereof.  Acts 1988, No. 898, §1; Acts 2017, No. 97, §1; Acts 2017, No. 266, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:224 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§224. Unadjustable or incorrigible children; reports to juvenile courts; expulsion, assignments, and transfers

RS 224 - Unadjustable or incorrigible children; reports to juvenile courts; expulsion, assignments, and transfers  A. Unadjustable or incorrigible children, who, through no fault of their parents or tutors or other persons having charge of them, regularly disrupt the orderly processes of the school to which they have been assigned, shall be considered as delinquents and may be reported by the visiting teacher, or supervisor of child welfare and attendance, to the juvenile court of the parish, there to be dealt with in the manner prescribed by law.  B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 17:416 to the contrary, any student who exhibits disruptive behavior, an incorrigible attitude, or any other discipline problems in general, may be recommended by the principal for expulsion, assignment to an appropriate alternative education program, or transfer to adult education if such student is:  (1) Seventeen years of age or older with less than five units of credit toward graduation.  (2) Eighteen years of age or older with less than ten units of credit toward graduation.  (3) Nineteen years of age or older with less than fifteen units of credit toward graduation.  Acts 1990, No. 158, §2, eff. July 1, 1990; Acts 1992, No. 1034, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:225 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§225. Repealed by Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 160, §3, eff. July 1, 1998.

RS 225 - Repealed by Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 160, §3, eff. July 1, 1998.
LA Rev Stat § 17:225.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§225.1. Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 500, §1.

RS 225.1 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 500, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:226 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§226. Exemptions from compulsory attendance

RS 226 - Exemptions from compulsory attendance A. The following classes of children provided for in this Section shall be exempted from the provisions of this Subpart: (1) Children mentally, physically, or emotionally incapacitated to perform school duties, and children unable to profit from further school experience, such exemptions to be certified in writing by a psychiatrist, psychologist, recognized evaluation center or clinic, or other professionally qualified person or agency designated by the city, parish, or other local public school board. (2) Children temporarily excused from school, as follows: (a) Children who are personally ill and whose attendance in school would endanger their own health or that of their classmates, each city, parish, or other local public school board being hereby authorized to adopt and promulgate or publish such resolutions as may seem wise and proper regarding the requirement of a certificate from a physician or nurse practitioner licensed to practice in the state in substantiation of the absence of children under this authorization of temporary absence. (b) Children in whose families there is serious illness which would reasonably necessitate the absence from school if, in the judgment of the visiting teacher, or supervisor of child welfare and attendance, such absence is justified, or if the illness is substantiated in writing by a physician or nurse practitioner licensed to practice in the state. (c) Children in whose immediate family a death has occurred, such absence not to exceed one week because of and at the time of such death. (d) Children whose religious faith requires absence for the observance of special and recognized holidays of the child's own faith. (e)(i) A child whose parent is a member of the United States Armed Forces or the National Guard of a state and such parent has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting shall be granted excused absences, not to exceed five school days per school year, for the day or days missed from school for the child to visit with his parent prior to the parent's deployment or during the parent's leave and, upon returning to school, shall be permitted to complete all class assignments, including all tests, missed while the child was absent pursuant to the provisions of this Item. (ii) For the purposes of this Subparagraph, the term "parent" shall mean the person responsible by law for the child's school attendance. B. Children shall not be excused from school to work in any job, including agriculture and domestic service, at any time, even in their own homes or for their own parents or tutors. Acts 1964, No. 109, §2; Acts 2005, No. 200, §1, eff. July 1, 2005; Acts 2008, No. 142, §1, eff. June 12, 2008.
LA Rev Stat § 17:226.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§226.1. Compulsory attendance; exemption for minors engaged in artistic or creative services

RS 226.1 - Compulsory attendance; exemption for minors engaged in artistic or creative services In addition to the exemptions contained in R.S. 17:226, any minor employed to perform or render artistic or creative services under a contract subject to Chapter 32 of Title 51 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Subpart for those days during which the minor is engaged in rendering artistic or creative services pursuant to such contract and for which instruction is required pursuant to R.S. 51:2134. Acts 2005, No. 147, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:227 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§227. State directors of child welfare and attendance; duties

RS 227 - State directors of child welfare and attendance; duties  The state superintendent of education shall appoint or designate members of the department of education whose primary responsibility shall be to supervise and enforce the provisions of this Sub-part and who shall serve as state director and assistant state directors of child welfare and attendance. The state director and assistant state directors of child welfare and attendance shall meet the certification standards set by the state board of education, for visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, and shall be responsible for the general administration of this Sub-part. The state superintendent of education is authorized to prescribe the duties of the state director and assistant state directors of child welfare and attendance, and to make such rules and regulations for the performance thereof, not inconsistent with law, as will promote the purposes of this Sub-part.  Acts 1964, No. 109, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 17:228 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§228. Visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance

RS 228 - Visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance  Each parish and city school board within the state shall administer this Subpart and secure its enforcement with other state and parish agencies mentioned herein. To facilitate the enforcement of this Subpart each parish and city school board shall employ at least one competent, qualified, and certified visiting teacher, or supervisor of child welfare and attendance. The parish or city school boards shall appoint such additional visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, or home-school coordinators as are necessary to achieve a ratio of not less than one such officer for every seven thousand five hundred students provided that additional personnel shall be added when funding is provided using state and/or federal funds for such salary and benefits and when the student population reaches a major fraction of seven thousand five hundred students over any multiple of seven thousand five hundred students. Each parish and city school board shall fix the compensation of such visiting teachers, supervisors of child welfare and attendance, or home-school coordinators, payable from the school funds of the parish or city, and shall prescribe the duties of such visiting teachers, supervisors of child welfare and attendance, or home-school coordinators and make such rules and regulations for the performance thereof as are not inconsistent with law and regulations of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. In addition, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall prescribe guidelines for the employment and funding of the home-school coordinators who shall be non-supervisory school support employees under the direction of the supervisor of child welfare and attendance and the principals of the schools to which they are assigned. Such home-school coordinators shall possess a teaching certificate and shall be employed for nine months according to the teacher salary schedule. The addition of home-school coordinators to achieve a ratio of one for every seven thousand five hundred students shall be dependent on the approval of funding of such salary and benefits utilizing state and/or federal funds. Such costs shall not be included in the calculation of the minimum foundation formula. Acts 1964, No. 109, §2; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 45, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 17:229 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§229. Appointment of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance

RS 229 - Appointment of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance The local school superintendent shall appoint visiting teachers and supervisors of child welfare and attendance; but no person shall be so recommended or so appointed unless certified by the state board of education. Acts 1964, No. 109, §2; Acts 2012, No. 1, §1, eff. July 1, 2012.
LA Rev Stat § 17:230 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§230. Powers and duties of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance

RS 230 - Powers and duties of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance  A. Visiting teachers, supervisors of child welfare and attendance, and home-school coordinators, shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities vested or which may be vested in attendance officers by the compulsory attendance laws of this state. B. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, shall be limited to the following, provided that any school system with fewer than seven thousand five hundred students may assign such duties in proportion to the fraction of seven thousand five hundred students in that school system: (1) Maintaining and keeping pupil attendance accounting records on forms approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. (2) Investigating cases of nonenrollment and unexcused absences from school of all children within the compulsory school attendance age. (3) Giving written notice, either in person or by registered mail, to the parent, tutor or other person having control or charge of a child within the compulsory school attendance age, when no valid reason is found for a child's nonenrollment or unexcused absence from school, requiring enrollment or attendance within three days from the date of notice. (4) Visiting the home or place of residence of a child and any other place in which he is likely to find any child who is required to attend school when such child is absent from school during school hours, and when such child shall have been found, to return him to his parent or to the principal or teacher in charge of the school, or to the private tutor from whom absent. (5) Keeping an accurate record of attendance of all children returned to schools or homes, of all cases prosecuted, and of all other services performed. A written report of all such activities shall be made monthly and annually to the parish or city superintendent of education and to the state director of child welfare and attendance. (6) Conducting counseling sessions and other meetings related to school attendance and discipline. (7) Undertaking other duties required by law or school board policy to reduce or respond to truancy. C. In the discharge of the duties of their office, visiting teachers, supervisors of child welfare and attendance, or home-school coordinators shall cooperate fully with the state departments of public welfare, labor, health, and other state agencies, and may serve such writs and process in law relating to compulsory attendance as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Subpart. Acts 1964, No. 109, §2. Amended by Acts 1975, No. 777, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 45, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 17:231 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§231. Retirement, tenure, and other welfare benefits of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance

RS 231 - Retirement, tenure, and other welfare benefits of visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance   Visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, employed under the provisions of this Subpart, shall have the same status with respect to teacher retirement, tenure, sabbatical leave, sick leave, maternity leave, adoptive leave, and all other teacher-welfare provisions as other teachers or supervisors whose employment requires that they hold valid teachers' certificates issued by authority of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.  Acts 1964, No. 109, §2; Acts 2018, No. 631, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:234 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§234. Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 500, §1.

RS 234 - Repealed by Acts 2010, No. 500, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 17:235 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§235. Cooperation of other state agencies and institutions with visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance

RS 235 - Cooperation of other state agencies and institutions with visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance  It shall be the duty of all state agencies and institutions to cooperate fully with the visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, in the enforcement of this Sub-part. Such schools and agencies as deal with children between the ages of six and eighteen years of age, both inclusive, shall make available to visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, such information as will assist them in promoting the regular attendance and school adjustment of these children. It shall be the duty of the principals, superintendents, or heads of the training and correctional schools to notify the visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, when a child is to be released and/or returned to a parish. Visiting teachers, or supervisors of child welfare and attendance, shall cooperate fully with the state departments of public welfare, labor, and health, and with other state and local agencies in promoting the purposes of this Sub-part, including interchange of confidential and privileged information; and shall cooperate fully with juvenile and family court authorities, training and correctional schools, law enforcement officers, and make such referrals thereto and investigations therefor as seem necessary for the enforcement of this Sub-part, including interchange of confidential and privileged information.  Acts 1964, No. 109, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 17:235.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 17 - Education|§235.1. Parent orientation; local public school boards; guidelines

RS 235.1 - Parent orientation; local public school boards; guidelines A. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 436, §2(B), eff. June 4, 2014. B. Each local public school board shall conduct a parent orientation course according to the following guidelines: (1) The program shall be scheduled to accommodate the attendance of the parents or guardians without the loss of work. (2) All parents or guardians shall be encouraged to attend as many times as they wish. (3) The school board shall provide every parent or guardian who attends the program a certificate verifying completion of the course. (4) At the parent orientation meeting, the school board or its representative shall provide each parent or guardian a copy of and shall explain school board policies which: (a) Govern the discipline of students, including but not limited to corporal punishment, detention, suspension, and expulsion of students. (b) Govern the attendance of students and truancy sanctions. (c) Govern the behavior and decorum expected of students at all times. (d) Govern dress codes for students for all school functions, including but not limited to in-school and out-of-school functions, including but not limited to dances. (e) Address parental access to instructional materials as provided in R.S. 17:355. (f) Address any other such matters as the school board may deem appropriate. (5) At the parent orientation meeting, the school board or its representative shall explain: (a) Existing school board grading systems. (b) Standardized test procedures in effect, including but not limited to preparation for tests, procedures to be followed on the testing days, and an explanation of the assessment of the test results. (c) Policies governing promotion of students from grade to grade and procedures implemented when a student fails to attain sufficient standards for promotion. (d) Other such matters as the school board may deem appropriate. C. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 436, §2(B), eff. June 4, 2014. D. A local public school board shall schedule not less than three orientation meetings during a school year, and at various times during the day, in order to facilitate attendance with as little inconvenience to the parents or guardians as possible. In order to carry out the intent and purpose of this Section, a school board shall schedule not less than three orientation meetings between March and September of each year, and shall publish notice and otherwise seek to notify parents or guardians whose children may enter a school in the system about the availability of and schedule for orientation meetings. E. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 1, §4, eff. July 1, 2012. F. Repealed by Acts 2014, No. 436, §2(B), eff. June 4, 2014. G. The provisions of this Section shall not be applicable to the Webster Parish School Board. Acts 1997, No. 418, §1, eff. June 22, 1997; Acts 2012, No. 1, §4, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2013, No. 329, §1; Acts 2014, No. 436, §1, eff. Aug. 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 436, §§2(A), 2(B), eff. June 4, 2014.