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REVISED STATUTESTitle 17 - EDUCATIONChapter 1 - GENERAL SCHOOL LAWPart III - PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL CHILDREN
Subpart D-2 - BALANCED TREATMENT FOR CREATION-SCIENCE AND EVOLUTION-SCIENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL INSTRUCTION
Section 17:286.6 - Funding of inservice training and materials acquisition

La. Stat. tit. 17 § 286.6

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Current with changes from the 2024 legislative session effective on or before 7/1/2024, from Acts 2,3, 6-535, and 580-647
Section 17:286.6 - Funding of inservice training and materials acquisition

Any public school that elects to present any model of origins shall use existing teacher inservice training funds to prepare teachers of public school courses presenting any model of origins to give balanced treatment to the creation-science model and the evolution-science model. Existing library acquisition funds shall be used to purchase nonreligious library books as are necessary to give balanced treatment to the creation-science model and the evolution-science model.

La. R.S. § 17:286.6

Added by Acts 1981, No. 685, §1.
Added by Acts 1981, No. 685, §1.

This provision of law was included in the Unconstitutional Statutes Biennial Report to the Legislature, dated March 14, 2016.

The Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act, R.S. 17:286.1 to 286.7, was held unconstitutional in Edwards v. Aguillard, La. 1987, 107 S.Ct. 2573, 96 L.Ed.2d 510.