RS 17:258 Repealed by acts 2010, no. 500, §1. - Louisiana Statutes

§258.  Program objectives

The objectives of each of the projects operated under the program established by this Section include all of the following:

(1)  The demonstration, by parents who have participated in the program for not less than twenty-eight months, of the development of parenting skills provided through the course of instruction described in R.S. 17:256 as evidenced by progress on the part of their children as follows:

(a)  Intellectual and language development that is significantly better statistically than that demonstrated by a local comparison group or by the group norm of nationally representative children.  

(b)  Social development that is significantly more positive than that demonstrated by a local comparison group of children as measured by observational instruments developed for use in the Parents as Teachers Grant Program.

(2)  The demonstration, by parents who have participated in the program for not less than twenty-eight months, of all of the following:

(a)  The ability of the parents, at an early state, to recognize in the child, indications of potential physical, mental, or emotional impairment and to intervene in order to prevent or alleviate that impairment.  The ability of the parents in the program shall be compared to a local comparison group based upon a statistical measure of parental recognition of, and intervention in, these potential impairments.  

(b)  A statistically improved knowledge level of child development and child rearing practices as measured by the comparison instrument developed to measure this component in the Parents as Teachers Grant Program.

(c)  Positive feelings about the usefulness of the program, as measured by the instrument to measure this component in the Parents as Teachers Grant Program.  

(d)  Positive attitudes toward the school system, as reassured by the instrument developed to measure this component in the Parents as Teachers Grant Program.  

(3)  The retention in the project, at the end of the third year of operation, of not less than eighty percent of initial participants who remain in the school system, as measured by a project statistical report.  

(4)  The development, no later than by the end of the third year, of a complete set of materials and instructional strategies in the English language and any other language that addresses the needs of the school system, for the operation of the project.  The materials and instructional strategies shall be certified by a panel of bilingually qualified parent educators and shall be made available both in print and in an audio visual format.

Acts 1991, No. 548, §1.