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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4024

  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
  • Participating school: means a nonpublic school that meets program requirements and seeks to enroll scholarship recipients or a public school that meets program requirements and seeks to enroll scholarship recipients subject to any court-ordered desegregation plan in effect for the school system in which the public school is located. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
  • Program: means the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013
  • Scholarship: means the funds awarded to a parent or other legal guardian on behalf of an eligible student to attend a participating public or nonpublic school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4013

A.  The department annually shall report to the Senate Committee on Education, the House Committee on Education, the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, and each individual legislator regarding the implementation of the program. The report, at a minimum, shall include the following information:

(1)  The total number of students receiving scholarships.

(2)  A list of all schools participating in the program.

(3)  A list of all schools participating in the program grouped by legislative district.

(4)  The total student enrollment of each participating school, the number of scholarship recipients enrolled in each school, and the percentage of the total enrollment of each school represented by scholarship recipients.

(5)  Aggregate test result data for the scholarship recipients enrolled in each participating school.

B.  Not later than April thirtieth of each year, the department shall send a printed copy of the report required by this Section to each legislative committee as provided in Subsection A of this Section and to each member of the legislature.

Acts 2008, No. 509, §1, eff. June 25, 2008; Acts 2010, No. 861, §8; Acts 2012, No. 2, §1; Acts 2014, No. 728, §1, eff. June 19, 2014.