Program Authorization: R.S. 17:1961-1968
The mission of the Instructional Services Program is to provide a challenging educational experience designed to enhance the development of the academic/social potential of each Louisiana School student toward work and service in a global society.
The goal of the Instructional Services Program is to provide for its students well-qualified facilitators, appropriate textbooks and material of instruction, technology, and facilities necessary for each student to successfully complete the prescribed course of study through the examination and exchange of ideas in a community of learners.
The Instructional Services Program provides a rigorous and challenging educational experience for academically-and artistically-motivated high school juniors and seniors through a unique accelerated curriculum which includes instruction, investigation, and research.
OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1. The Instructional Service Program will graduate 90% of all senior students at the end of SY 1998-99.
2. In SY 1998-99, the Instructional Services Program will demonstrate LSMSA graduates attracting grant and scholarship offers exceeding $7 million.
2. The "Grants and Scholarships" figures above are very rough. In-state figures are based upon total amounts offered to students who elected to attend public and private colleges and universities in Louisiana. Out-of-state figures are based upon total amounts offered to students who elected to attend institutions out-of-state. Actual amounts offered by in-state and out-of-state institutions were not available.
3. In SY 1998-99, the Instructional Services Program shall maintain a student to teacher ratio in all regular academic classes which shall not exceed 15:1 classroom teacher except in physical education and special enrichment courses.
4. By July 1, 1998, the Instructional Services Program will conduct an evaluation of the school's specialized curriculum, its faculty, textbooks and materials of instruction, technology, and facilities and will implement any changes, within budgetary constraints, necessary to meet the goals of the program.
1. Excludes Telelearning course costs, which are not offered to LSMSA students.
RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR THE PROGRAM
This program is funded with the general fund and interagency transfers. The Department of Education transfers funds to the program for the Professional Improvement Program. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education transfers funds to this program from the Louisiana Quality Support Education {8(g)} fund to finance LSMSA's Telelearning efforts.
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Reductions in various Expenditure categories; Including Reductions to fully fund Salaries |
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DIFFERENCE (TOTAL RECOMMENDED AND EXISTING OPERATING BUDGET) |
The total means of financing for this program is recommended at 102.2% of the existing operating budget. It represents 73.5% of the total request ($3,976,381) for this program. The total recommended amount for this program includes changes due to the full funding of all recommended positions and an increase due to the Legislature adding positions for six (6) months. The remaining difference is due to statewide adjustments.
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Other Professional Services for adjunct faculty to augment regular faculty |
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ACQUISITIONS AND MAJOR REPAIRS
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Various pieces of instructional equipment including computers |
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