2013 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 - Education
RS 17:348 - Louisiana Schools for the Deaf and Visually Impaired; Louisiana Special Education Center; year-round operation; continuing service
§348. Louisiana Schools for the Deaf and Visually Impaired; Louisiana Special Education Center; year-round operation; continuing service
A. The Louisiana Schools for the Deaf and Visually Impaired and the Louisiana Special Education Center may operate year-round under the provisions of this Subpart, subject to the approval of the superintendent of the Special School District and subject to the availability of funds.
B. Special educational services at the Louisiana Special Education Center may be continued to be provided until the thirty-second birthday for individuals with severe physically handicapping conditions who are receiving work skill training and who have not reached employable proficiency by their twenty-second birthday, subject to the approval of the superintendent of the Special School District and subject to the availability of funds.
C. Services at the Louisiana Special Education Center in Alexandria shall continue to be provided to each individual with severe physically handicapping conditions who was originally enrolled in the school when it was called the Louisiana School for Spastic Children, who remained continuously enrolled in the school through the change of the school from the Louisiana School for Spastic Children to the Louisiana Special Education Center, who has remained continuously enrolled in the school since that time, and who is enrolled at the Louisiana Special Education Center on May 1st, 1985 until the individual voluntarily withdraws from the school, is withdrawn from the school by his legal guardian, or until his death. The provisions of this Subsection shall be implemented only when, as a result of the review of the Individual Education Plan by the regional review committee, it is determined to be in the student's best interest.
D, E. Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 441, §3.
Added by Acts 1979, No. 584, §1. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 441, §1; Acts 1985, No. 924, §1, eff. July 23, 1985; Acts 1992, No. 911, §2; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 15, §1, eff. April 14, 2000; Acts 2012, No. 441, §§1, 3.
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