Requests the Dept. of Social Services and the Dept. of Education to work collaboratively to ensure that children enter kindergarten ready to learn and to submit an annual school readiness report to the governor, legislative education committees, and BESE
Provides relative to the high school core curriculum requirements for certain students to be eligible for a TOPS Opportunity, Performance, or Honors award
Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to collect information relative to the use by local school boards of corporal punishment
Suspends in part R.S. 17:3141.2(5), relative to the definition of a proprietary school as it is applicable to yoga teacher training, until 60 days after final adjournment of the 2011 R.S.
Requests BESE to study the rate of suspensions and expulsions in La. and to submit a written report of findings and recommendations to the House and Senate education committees prior to the 2011 R.S.
Requests BESE to study feasibility of consolidating administration and evaluation of the LA4 and 8(g) prekindergarten programs, to ensure that school districts receive necessary support, and to adopt identical standards for programs
Directs public postsecondary education management boards and the Board of Regents to publish certain performance and cost data relative to public postsecondary education in La.