2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:294 — Qualifications of teachers

§294.  Qualifications of teachers

All ordinances passed pursuant to the authority granted herein, shall make provision for the appointment and method of qualification of all teachers for part-time schools or classes; and shall classify and impose qualification requirements upon those teachers, as follows:

(1)  Shop teachers for trade and industrial subjects shall be selected from the trades and must have not less than four years experience after the apprentice stage.  They must also establish that they have completed the tenth grade.

(2)  Related subject teachers must either be graduates of technical schools or colleges with a satisfactory contact with the trades taught in the schools, or have had satisfactory trade experience and a mastery of the related subjects they wish to teach, and be graduates of accredited high schools.

(3)  Teachers in general academic subjects must meet the standard required by the department of education for teachers in the accredited high schools of Louisiana.