Requests the state Department of Education to re-create a commission to study and make recommendations relative to improving reading proficiency for certain students
Requests the Department of Education to assist certain public school boards to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of essential services.
Requests that the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study the history of racism, racism's effects on public education, and anti-racism education and creates a task force to develop recommendations for implementing such education
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