Law and Government Legislation regarding 'Students' in Louisiana

Provides eligibility for certain home study students to participate in public school interscholastic extracurricular activities. (8/5/08)

Allows the parent or legal guardian of a student assigned to attend a school in a Recovery School District the option to enroll their child in any school operated by the original school system if sufficient capacity exists. (8/15/08)

Provides relative to the use of corporal punishment in public schools. (gov sig)

Requires public schools to provide at least 30 minutes of physical activity each school day for students in the seventh and eighth grades

Limits, in specified circumstances, excluding certain students from extracurricular interscholastic athletic activities. (gov sig)

Relative to public school policies prohibiting the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of a student by another student, further defines such terms as acts motivated by certain specified characteristics

Provides that chief administrators of schools responsible for ensuring the enforcement of immunization requirements by checking students' records must check such records annually

Requires compulsory kindergarten attendance. (gov sig) (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)

Commends the recipients of the 2005 Louisiana Young Heroes Award.

Places three year moratoria on not promoting or graduating any student solely based on the student's performance on any LEAP tests, including the graduation test. (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)

Provides for expanded participation in the START program. (EN DECREASE GF RV See Note)

Provides for an extension of time to claim educational benefits for members of the La. National Guard who are on inactive ready reserve status. (OR -$307,632 SG RV See Note)

Requests the House and Senate education committees to study the advantages and disadvantages of requiring the grouping of public school students by similar abilities or achievement levels for instructional purposes

Provides relative to alternative educational programs for certain adjudicated students and those in the custody of the office of youth development (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

Prohibits not promoting or graduating any student solely based on the student's performance on any LEAP tests, including the graduation test

Requires parents or others having control of a child entering kindergarten to submit certification that the child has been administered a vision screening (OR NO IMPACT EX See Note)

Requires BESE to adopt rules and regulations to allow certain students to participate in graduation ceremonies

Establishes minimum academic eligibility requirements for participation by certain students in interscholastic athletics and other extracurricular activities