Louisiana Administrative Code

A. Focus. Extended standards for grades seven and eight continue to focus on reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students build upon previously learned reading strategies to encounter a wide range of genres. Students' writing becomes more developed. The purposes for writing al…

A. There are six mathematics strands: 1. number and Number Relations; 2. algebra; 3. geometry; 4. measurement; 5. data analysis, probability, and discrete math; and 6. Patterns, Relations, and Functions. B. GLEs, linked across the grade span and appropriate for academic instructi…

C ombinations -sets containing a certain number of objects selected from another set. The combinations of three items from the set {a, b, c, d} are: {a, b, c,}, {a, b, d}, {a, c, d}, {b, c, d}. {a, b, c} and {b, a, c} are considered to be the same set. Computational Fluency -the …

A. The entrepreneurship curriculum: 1. attracts high school students to investigate entrepreneurship as a viable career option and addresses the dilemma of losing our high school and college graduates to other states for jobs; 2. offers a standards-based curriculum. Entrepreneurs…

A. Focus. Entrepreneurs typically exhibit certain traits that set them apart from others. This strand focuses on those personal characteristics that are important-both now as students and as working adults in a knowledge-based economy. B. Standard 1. Students will identify person…

A. Focus. Essential skill sets are necessary for start-up and management of a successful business. This strand focuses on the student's ability to understand and effectively analyze various business concepts. In addition, it reinforces the importance of developing communication a…

Lesson Grade 9 Grade 10 Grades 11, 12 Completed Unit 1 Lesson A Setting Up Your Portfolio 35 38 33 Unit 1 Lesson B Functions of a Business Plan 35 38 33 Unit 1 Lesson C Timeline for the Student Market 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, …

Math Science Social Services LESSON GR 9 GR 10 GR 11/12 GR 9 GR 10 GR 11/12 GR 9 GR 10 GR 11/12 Completed Unit 1 Lesson A Setting Up Your Portfolio ----- ----- ----- Unit 1 Lesson B Functions of a Business Plan ----- ----- ----- Unit 1 Lesson C Timeline for the Student Market ---…

A. Focus. Business functions tie entrepreneurial endeavors together. This strand focuses on several different but equally important areas of business, including financial management, human resource management, and the marketing of goods and services. B. Standard 8: Students will …

A. Alternative education sites must actively document efforts to engage parents and legal custodians beyond parent/legal custodian-teacher meetings. A nonjudgmental, solution-focused approach that incorporates parents/guardians as respected partners throughout the student's lengt…

A. Approval to operate an alternative school or program must be obtained from BESE. 1. A school system choosing to implement an alternative school or program shall notify the LDE on or before the date prescribed by the LDE. School systems cannot change the requested school or pro…

A. Each school district and charter school that provides instruction to high school students may offer a dropout recovery program for eligible students. B. BESE-prescribed standards and testing requirements will apply to dropout recovery programs. C. The dropout recovery program …

A. The school system will ensure that students are transitioned to an alternative education site using a formalized intake process that addresses both behavioral and academic needs. The transition process will include a review of academic and behavioral records including, but not…

A. School systems operating an alternative school or program must address the root cause of the behavioral misconduct while a student is educated at the alternative education school or program site, utilizing evidence based interventions and strategies. 1. An approved alternative…

A. Alternative education sites will create an annual professional development plan that will: 1. identify staff training needs; 2. match needs to relevant training; 3. emphasize quality implementation of evidence-based and best practices; and 4. establish performance evaluations …

A. Alternative education sites must offer students access to post-secondary education pathways that are comparable to existing options within the school system, including TOPS University and Jump Start TOPS Tech, unless the local superintendent finds that extenuating circumstance…

A. Exemplary alternative education develops a guiding mission and purpose that drives the overall operation of the alternative education site. All stakeholders share in developing, implementing, directing and maintaining the mission and purpose. The mission and purpose include th…

A. Alternative education sites must have a plan to address and continually evaluate school climate and culture to ensure academic and behavioral improvement. 1. Alternative schools should utilize an annual climate survey. The survey should seek to assess student, staff and admini…

A. Alternative education sites must provide students with academic, behavioral, and social-emotional counseling designed to promote student academic progress and to address the underlying causes of student behavioral misconduct. B. Counseling provided by the site or per R.S. 17:4…

A. Alternative education sites will annually conduct systematic program evaluations for compliance and continuous improvement to include submission of an annual report to the LDE that details the following: 1. planned revisions to the site mission, structure, staffing, interventi…

A. Alternative education school and program performance will be measured annually using the indicators established in LAC 28: XI. Chapter 35 (Bulletin 111). Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLIX-1703 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 45 401 ( 3/…

A. School districts and charter schools may contract with an educational management organization to provide a dropout recovery program. If contracting with an educational management organization, the school district or charter school must ensure that all of the following requirem…

A. A student enrolled in a dropout recovery program must be included in the student enrollment count for the school or school system offering the program. Each school and school system will report the following information to the LDE on a monthly basis: 1. newly enrolled students…

Academic Coach -an adult who assists students in: 1. selecting courses needed to meet graduation requirements; 2. monitoring student pace and progress through the program; and 3. conducting regular pace and progress interventions. Eligible Student -a student who is not enrolled i…

A. School systems operating alternative education sites must address the root cause of academic challenges while a student is educated at the alternative education school or program, utilizing evidence-based academic interventions and strategies. 1. Alternative education sites mu…

A. The purpose of this policy bulletin is to set forth the role, responsibilities, and functions of the Recovery School District (RSD). Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLV-101 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:310 (January 2011). AUTHORITY N…

A. For each school transferred to the RSD, the RSD shall ensure that each direct-operated school is included in the RSD community relations program. That program shall include a method of maintaining clear communication among interested parties, including the RSD; the chief execu…

A. The statewide RSD advisory council to the state superintendent shall serve as a component of the RSD's community outreach. B. To maximize community engagement, each school under the RSD's direct operation is strongly encouraged to create an advisory council composed of members…

A. The RSD and all RSD schools shall participate in the Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System as approved by BESE. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLV-1701 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:1379 (May 2011). AUTHORITY NO…

A. The state superintendent shall serve as the RSD's governing authority, consistent with authority delegated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and statutory authority acknowledged by BESE. The state superintendent is subject to BESE's oversight of his adm…

A. The state superintendent shall appoint the RSD superintendent with prior approval of BESE. B. The RSD superintendent shall possess the same qualifications as provided for a school system superintendent in BESE Bulletin 746-Louisiana Standards for Certification of School Person…

A. The RSD superintendent shall administer the RSD, subject to the authority of the state superintendent as governing authority. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLV-305 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:877 (March 2011). AUTHORITY NOTE: Prom…

A. All school advisory councils are strongly encouraged to make their meetings open to the public. B. Within two weeks of each meeting of the school administration with its advisory council, the school shall prepare a written report summarizing the items discussed at the meeting,…

A. The academic progress of all RSD schools shall be reported along with the progress of all public schools in BESE's annual report. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLV-1703 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:1379 (May 2011). AUTHORITY NOTE: …

A. The RSD shall implement data-driven, research-based procedures proven successful with similar populations of students in order to improve student achievement. B. The RSD is also subject to all applicable requirements of Bulletin 111 - The Louisiana School, District, and State …

A. The state shall annually appropriate sufficient monies to fund any school in the RSD in an amount equal to, but not less than, the school's student membership count times 100 percent of the state share per student as provided in the MFP approved formula for the city, parish, o…

A. Applicable Law and Policy 1. The Recovery School District is established in R.S. 17:1990 as an intermediate education unit within the Department of Education and functions as a unit within a state agency, except as otherwise provided in R.S. 17:1990 . State agencies are subjec…

A. The RSD shall have the right to use any school building and all facilities and property otherwise part of the school and recognized as part of the facilities or assets of the school prior to its placement in the recovery school district and shall have access to such additional…

A. The RSD can, at its discretion, offer the use of facilities transferred pursuant to R.S. 17:10.7 to charter operators. Facility assignments will be made by the RSD superintendent based on considerations that include building readiness, facility preference of charter school ope…

A. The RSD shall be responsible for and obligated to provide for routine maintenance and repair such that the facilities and property transferred to it by the prior system are maintained in as good an order as when the right of use was acquired by the district. B. In the case of …

A. Charter operators shall maintain an inventory of all assets, including records of any assets acquired with any private funds. Inventories of assets must be maintained consistent with the requirements set forth in Bulletin 1929-Louisiana Accounting and Uniform Governmental Hand…

A. Deputy superintendents who supervise any part of the instructional program must meet the qualification standards set by Bulletin 746-Louisiana Standards for Certification of School Personnel. B. Deputy superintendents in non-instructional areas, such as finance, management, fa…

A. Statewide Council 1. Within 90 days after the final adoption of this Section, the state superintendent shall nominate, subject to BESE's approval, a list of four nominees to serve on the statewide RSD advisory council to the state superintendent. At least two of these nominees…

A. The RSD shall manage the finances to provide the best educational opportunity to all students and in the manner most likely to bring the school to an acceptable level of performance. B. The RSD must identify and explain financial priorities for schools that have been placed in…

A. BESE is the entity that makes the allocations of state, local, and federal funds to the RSD. If different funding amounts are allocated to different students, the funding shall follow the student. B. The RSD direct-operated and charter-operated schools shall budget on a fiscal…

A. The RSD shall annually present the budget proposal to BESE for approval prior to submission to the DOA and a report on the status of the budget following the approval by the legislature. B. The RSD must comply with all accounting principles prescribed by the commissioner of ad…

A. RSD shall conform to all requirements in this Chapter in addition to all applicable state and federal statutes and policy. Notes La. Admin. Code tit. 28 , § CXLV-1107 Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 37:311 (January 2011). AUTHORITY NOTE: Prom…

A. The RSD shall submit to an audit of its operations. This audit shall be conducted in accordance with provisions and timelines established by the Office of the Legislative Auditor. B. Upon transfer of a failing school to the RSD, the RSD shall utilize the results of any audit o…

A. RSD shall be subject to the policies contained in BESE Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators [Public Schools], unless otherwise provided in this bulletin . Bulletin 741 collects BESE policies that govern the operation of public elementary, middle, and secon…

A. A public school may be transferred to the jurisdiction of the RSD if it is determined, as defined by R.S. 17:10.6 , to be either academically unacceptable or if it is determined to be academically in crisis. BESE has established a uniform statewide program for school accountab…