NOTE: This provision of law was included in the Unconstitutional Statutes Biennial
Report to the Legislature, dated March 14, 2016.
§286.7. Curriculum development
A. Each city and parish school board shall develop and provide to each public school
classroom teacher in the system a curriculum guide on presentation of creation-science.
B. The governor shall designate seven creation-scientists who shall provide resource
services in the development of curriculum guides to any city or parish school board upon
request. Each such creation-scientist shall be designated from among the full-time faculty
members teaching in any college and university in Louisiana. These creation-scientists shall
serve at the pleasure of the governor and without compensation.
Added by Acts 1981, No. 685, §1.
NOTE: The Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science
Act, R.S. 17:286.1 to 286.7, was held unconstitutional in Edwards v.
Aguillard, La. 1987, 107 S.Ct. 2573, 96 L.Ed.2d 510.