Title 17. Education

Chapter 1. General School Law

Part III. Public Schools and School Children

Subpart D-1. Permitted Courses of Study

17:286      Violence prevention, self-esteem, and peer mediation

A. Any public elementary school may offer instruction in violence prevention, self-esteem, and peer mediation. Any public secondary school may offer instruction in self-esteem and peer mediation. The curriculum for such instruction shall be developed and approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. 

B. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt necessary rules and regulations to insure the proper implementation of this Section and any city or parish school board offering such instruction shall do so in accordance with such rules and regulations. 

Added by Acts 1994, 3rd Ex.Sess., No. 47, § 1. Amended by Acts 2022, No. 643, § 2, eff. July 1, 2023.