Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.2

  • Balanced treatment: means providing whatever information and instruction in both creation and evolution models the classroom teacher determines is necessary and appropriate to provide insight into both theories in view of the textbooks and other instructional materials available for use in his classroom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3

§286.2. Purpose

            This Subpart is enacted for the purposes of protecting academic freedom.

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

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