2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 17:3781 — Regional service centers

CHAPTER 34.  REGIONAL SERVICE CENTERS

§3781.  Regional service centers; establishment

A maximum of eight regional service centers, hereinafter sometimes referred to as "centers", shall be established, generally supervised, and coordinated by the Department of Education.  The regions to be served and the location of each center shall be established by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, provided however that any center location shall be within an approximate thirty-mile radius of a public four-year college or university having a college of education and shall be established in a manner to provide equal and cost effective services to school systems based on student population and geographic location.  However, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall locate a regional service center at the site of each professional development center in existence prior to July 21, 1988, unless those persons governing the operation of each such professional development center indicate to the board that such location is either undesirable or unnecessary.

Acts 1988, No. 896, §1, eff. July 21, 1988.