2017 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 17 - Education
RS 17:187.1 - Legislative findings; purpose

SUBPART A-3. ARTICULATED AND RECIPROCAL

TECHNICAL TRAINING FOR SHARED STUDENTS

§187.1. Legislative findings; purpose

A. The legislature finds that:

(1) A substantial number of high school students are not being provided the educational services they need to engage their interest, to provide them with the motivation to complete the academic requirements needed to graduate, and to provide them with the tools for productive adult employment.

(2) The state, its communities, and its economy cannot grow as long as the young people are failing to thrive.

(3) The recovery of the state from hurricanes Katrina and Rita exacerbates an already intense need for, and provides unlimited opportunities for, trained and skilled workers.

(4) The facilities, material, and expertise necessary to provide opportunities for technical training to young people in order to engage them in school and to enhance the availability to the economy of trained and skilled workers exists and needs to be exploited.

(5) Bureaucracies are generally uncomfortable with permitting the use of their facilities, faculty, and other resources by those beyond the limits of their control.

(6) Getting the most out of available resources is critical for the state's credibility and viability.

(7) Getting the most out of available resources requires:

(a) The establishment of articulated and reciprocal programs of technical training that are based on nationally accepted standards of performance.

(b) The formation of the institutional will to leverage the access students have to such programs and to increase the number of such programs by sharing available facilities, faculty, and resources.

(c) The recognition of a shared mission between secondary and postsecondary schools to train willing students.

B. Therefore, it is the purpose of this Subpart to minimize the number of secondary students who withdraw from an educational environment without earning a diploma or its equivalent or completing a degree or technical certification program by establishing the requirement and by providing the incentive to the appropriate secondary and postsecondary institutions to maximize the shared use of facilities, technology, faculty, and other resources to provide articulated and reciprocal technical training to high school students and recent high school dropouts. It is further the purpose to make the best and maximum use of all public investment in facilities, equipment, expertise, and other resources, to assure that such investments are used to their highest potential, and to limit the necessity of duplication of investment while assuring universal access to excellent technical training programs.

Acts 2006, No. 668, §1, eff. June 29, 2006.