Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 28 - EDUCATION › Part I - BESE/8(g) Operations › Subpart 1 - Board of Elementary and Secondary Education › Chapter 5 - Organization › Section I-503 - Advisory Councils

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Functions. In
				  general, the function of an advisory council is to advise the board, directly
				  or through its committees, in the discharge of its policymaking, supervisory
				  control, and budgetary duties and responsibilities. Specific functions of an
				  advisory council are determined by the creating law or policy. Advisory
				  councils deal exclusively with matters referred to them by the board or the
				  LDE. Matters referred to advisory councils are those that require external
				  input regarding funding decisions, policy matters that need to be reviewed for
				  local impact, bulletin revisions containing policies or supervisory controls,
				  and matters particular to a council for which it was created. The LDE staff
				  provides the board with a statewide and nationwide perspective on certain
				  issues, while advisory councils respond from a local or community
				  perspective.
B. Composition. Unless
				  otherwise provided by state or federal law, each advisory council of the board
				  is created by board policy. The policy determines the size of the council
				  membership; the number of persons to be appointed by the board; the persons,
				  organizations, affiliations, or interest groups to be represented on a council;
				  and the length of terms.
C.
				  Creation. The following advisory councils are created.
1. 8(g) Advisory Council:
a. authority - per BESE policy;
b. membership - 16 members as follows:
i. eleven members, one member recommended by
				  each BESE member from the member's assigned category, as follows:
(a). one representative of a business partner
				  in education;
(b). one LEA grant
				  administrator;
(c). one elementary
				  principal;
(d). one secondary
				  principal;
(e). one representative
				  of a nonpublic school system;
(f).
				  one representative of a public charter school;
(g). one LEA supervisor;
(h). one teacher, grades preK-6;
(i). one teacher, grades 7-12;
(j). one LEA superintendent; and
(k). one 8(g) evaluator;
ii. Louisiana PTA president; and
iii. two ex officio members from the
				  legislature, recommended by the senate president, from the following
				  categories:
(a). chair or member of the
				  Senate Committee on Education; and
(b). chair or member of the Senate Committee
				  on Finance;
iv. two ex
				  officio members from the legislature, recommended by the speaker of the House,
				  from the following categories:
(a). chair or
				  member of the House Committee on Education; and
(b). chair or member of the House Committee
				  on Appropriations;
c. referrals/responsibilities:
i. make recommendations with respect to the
				  board's annual establishment of priorities;
ii. make recommendations concerning any
				  Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund policies, procedures, and/or
				  activities;
iii. participate in any
				  public hearing conducted by the board relative to the Louisiana Quality
				  Education Support Fund;
iv.
				  consider all matters referred by the board or the LDE.