TITLE 17. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 39. THE CHILDREN FIRST ACT

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

17:3872      Purpose

   It is the purpose of this Chapter to provide a unified, farsighted, and intense program of school improvement designed to center resources and effort on continually improving the quality in the public school classrooms in this state. The legislature finds that it is in the classroom that teaching and learning occur and, therefore, this Chapter is designed, and it is the intention of the legislature, to put the children first.

Added by Acts 1988, No. 659, Sec. 1, eff. July 15, 1988.

PROVISIONAL EFFECT

         < Section 1 of Acts 1988, No. 659 amended R.S. 17:421.3 and enacted Chapter 39 of Title 17, "The Children First Act", including this section. Section 3 of Acts 1988, No. 659 provided in part: "If the provisions of R.S. 17:421.3 are not funded, the provisions of Chapter 39 of Title 17 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as enacted in this Act, shall be null and void." >