Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CLI - Bulletin 132 - Louisiana Course Choice Program
Chapter 5 - Course Providers
Section CLI-505 - Course Provider Instructional Staff

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CLI-505

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Each course provider shall establish by regulation, requirements and procedures consistent with R.S. 17:15 and R.S. 15:587.1, through which it may request information from the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information necessary to ascertain whether an employee, or applicant for employment as a teacher, substitute teacher, bus driver, substitute bus driver, or janitor, or as a temporary, part-time, or permanent employee of any kind, including any person employed to provide cafeteria, transportation, or janitorial or maintenance services by any person or entity that contracts with a course provider to provide such services, has been arrested for, convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to, any criminal offense.

1. The regulation shall include the requirement and the procedure for the submission of a persons fingerprints on a form acceptable to the bureau.

2. The request for information necessary to determine whether a person has been arrested for, convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to, any criminal offense must be on a form prepared by the bureau and must be signed by a responsible officer or official of the provider making the request.

3. It must include a statement signed by the person about whom the request is made which gives permission for such information to be released and must include the person's fingerprints in a form acceptable to the bureau.

4. A person whose fingerprints have been submitted to the bureau may be temporarily hired pending the report from the bureau.

B. No person who has been convicted of or has pled nolo contendere to a crime listed in R.S. 15:587.1(C) shall be allowed to instruct/interact with students as a teacher, substitute teacher, bus driver, substitute bus driver, janitor, or as a temporary, part-time, or permanent employee of any kind, including any person employed to provide cafeteria, transportation, or janitorial or maintenance services by any person or entity that contracts with a school or school system to provide such services unless approved in writing by a district judge of the parish and the district attorney.

1. This statement of approval shall be kept on file at all times by the course provider and shall be produced upon request to any law enforcement officer, BESE, or LDE staff member.

2. Not later than 30 days after its being placed on file with the course provider, the course provider shall submit a copy of the statement of approval to the state superintendent of education.

C. Instructional staff for Course Choice course providers must hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited university in the subject area in which they are offering instruction. Course providers may also use industry personnel to provide instruction as long as these industry personnel meet CTTIE (career and technical trade industrial education) guidelines.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 15:587.1, R.S. 17:15, R.S. 17.7, R.S. 17.1, and R.S. 17:4002.4.

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