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Regular Session, 2013
SENATE BILL NO. 176
BY SENATOR WHITE
Prefiled pursuant to Article III, Section 2(A)(4)(b)(i) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY. Requires certain local public school boards to obtain
BESE approval before making certain changes in the status of a failing school. (8/1/13)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 17:10.5(G), relative to school and district accountability; to require certain2
local public school boards to gain approval from the State Board of Elementary and3
Secondary Education prior to making certain changes in the status of a failing4
school; to provide for applicability; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 17:10.5(G) is hereby enacted to read as follows:7
ยง10.5. School and district accountability; failing schools; transfer to Recovery8
School District; parent petitions9
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G.(1) No local public school board may close, change the grade11
configuration of, or change the instructional program of any school under its12
jurisdiction that has been designated as a failing school pursuant to the state's13
school and district accountability system without first obtaining approval from14
the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.15
(2) The provisions of this Subsection shall be applicable to any local16
public school board in any parish having a population in excess of four hundred17 SB NO. 176
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forty thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jeanne C. Johnston.
DIGEST
Proposed law prohibits a local public school board from closing, changing the grade
configuration of, or changing the instructional program of any school under its jurisdiction
that has been designated as a failing school without first obtaining approval from the State
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). Further provides that proposed law
shall apply only to a local public school board in a parish having a population in excess of
440,000 according to the most recent federal decennial census.
Effective August 1, 2013.
(Adds R.S. 17:10.5(G))