LAC 28:CLI.505. Course Provider Instructional Staff

A. Each course provider shall establish by regulation, requirements and procedures consistent with R.S. 17:15 and R.S. 15:587.1, through which it may request information from the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information necessary to ascertain whether an employee, or applicant for employment as a teacher, substitute teacher, bus driver, substitute bus driver, or janitor, or as a temporary, part-time, or permanent employee of any kind, including any person employed to provide cafeteria, transportation, or janitorial or maintenance services by any person or entity that contracts with a course provider to provide such services, has been arrested for, convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to, any criminal offense. 1. The regulation shall include the requirement and the procedure for the submission of a person’s fingerprints on a form acceptable to the bureau. 2. The request for information necessary to determine whether a person has been arrested for, convicted of, or pled nolo contendere to, any criminal offense must be on a form prepared by the bureau and must be signed by a responsible officer or official of the provider making the request. 3. It must include a statement signed by the person about whom the request is made which gives permission for such information to be released and must include the person's fingerprints in a form acceptable to the bureau. B. No person who has been convicted of or has pled nolo contendere to a crime listed in R.S. 15:587.1(C) shall be allowed to instruct/interact with students as a teacher, substitute teacher, bus driver, substitute bus driver, janitor, or as a temporary, part-time, or permanent employee of any kind, including any person employed to provide cafeteria, transportation, or janitorial or maintenance services by any person or entity that contracts with a school or school system to provide such services. C. Instructional staff for Course Choice course providers must hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited university in the subject area in which they are offering instruction. Course providers may also use industry personnel to provide instruction as long as these industry personnel meet CTTIE (career and technical trade industrial education) guidelines. D. Failure to meet all requirements can result in probation or termination of the course provider for participation in the Course Choice Program.