Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, local school boards and the governing authority of a state special school from complying with the requirement that they grant certain requests for sabbatical leave
Limits applicability of laws relative to a school bus operator becoming a regular and permanent employee of the employing school board and provides relative to removal of certain operators
Creates the Medical Education & Research Finance Work Group to provide findings and recommendations to the legislature relative to a formula-based financing model for the funding of Louisiana's public institutions for graduate and professional medical education and biomedical and health-related research
Permits, rather than requires, school systems to retain supervision of suspended or expelled students using alternative education programs (OR SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
Requests that the House Committee on Education study issues raised by legislation proposed during the 2014 Regular Session and prior sessions relative to certain school systems
Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study the feasibility of developing an accountability system for nonpublic schools participating in the voucher program comparable to the accountability system for public schools
Provides relative to Taylor Opportunity Program for students awards when insufficient money to fund all eligible students is appropriated (OR NO IMPACT GF EX See Note)