RS 17:497.3: In-service training; schedule

A. The State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt a policy providing for the scheduling of in-service training for school bus operators.

B. The schedule shall provide that all school bus operators, including any school board employee who drives a bus on an occasional basis to transport students to and from school activities, shall attend in-service training not more frequently than once every other school year.

C. A city or parish school board shall have authority to provide in-service training for school bus operators on a more frequent basis than established by the policy of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education when such training is at no expense to the state.