Requires the state to pay the transportation costs for students attending approved nonpublic elementary and secondary schools (OR +$15,942,355 GF EX See Note)
Establishes minimum academic eligibility requirements for participation by certain students in interscholastic athletics and other extracurricular activities
Provides relative to eligibility of certain home study students to participate in interscholastic athletics at secondary schools that are members of the LHSAA (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, a local school board from complying with the requirement that the board grant certain requests for sabbatical leave
Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, a local school board from complying with the requirement that the board permit certain employees to take up to 90 days of extended sick leave
Requires the Board of Regents to broadcast on the Internet the audio and video of all board and committee meetings conducted in Baton Rouge and to archive the audio and video of such meetings
Requires BESE to broadcast on the Internet the audio and video of all board and committee meetings conducted in Baton Rouge and to archive the audio and video of such meetings (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)