Louisiana, state file 18

Coverage summary

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

• 162Units in frameExhaustive frame
• 156Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
• 5PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

District coverage

One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

Operator silence

Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

Publication against identified population

The state does not publish counts by agency, so this measure is not reported; it is never supplied where the state does not publish them (FRM-005 section 3).

The FRM-002 measure is not supported for Louisiana. The numerator cannot be formed because no agency-level identified count exists; the statewide 959 (federal) is the only denominator. What can be said is that the federal file places 67 school-age pupils with hearing impairment in a separate school and none in a residential facility in fall 2024, that the Louisiana School for the Deaf counted 76 pupils on 1 October 2025 and on 1 February 2026, and that fifteen local education agencies publish their own deaf or hard of hearing staff or program on their sites while none publishes a count.

State indicators

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population over time

The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

Fiscal channels

The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.

Every figure a channel carries

Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

Workforce

The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

Schools and programs

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route

The frame

The frame is every sponsor in the Department of Education's 2025-2026 School Directory workbook carried as a unit: 64 parish school systems, 5 city school systems, the Special School District, 5 state special schools with their own LEA codes (the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts; the LSU and Southern University laboratory schools; the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; Thrive Academy), the Office of Juvenile Justice sponsor and 86 charter sponsors (the Type 2 and Type 5 charters and the Orleans charters as their own LEAs under Bulletin 126 section 2303): 162 rows, re-verified against the October 2025 and February 2026 enrollment files on 3 October 2026 with no row added or dropped. The Louisiana School for the Deaf and LSD Outreach are entities under the Special School District as operator (D-038), read as seeded sets, not rows of their own. Every row was read on its own website in the rendered browser on 3 October 2026 (attempt one), the failed, thin and unfound-quotation hosts re-read on 9 October 2026 (attempt two), the directory's website field compared with the host read (D-043), and every keyword hit reviewed by the compiler against its capture on 9 October.

Frame count

162

Frame

Exhaustive

The deaf and blind boundary decision

Deaf-blindness is carried where the instruments name it: the federal 618 file prints 17 pupils with a primary category of deaf-blindness for fall 2024 (11 school age: 5 in the regular class 80 percent or more, 5 under 40 percent, 1 homebound; 6 early childhood); the National Deafblind Child Count prints 158 served and 148 on the 1 December 2024 count on its own definition (v1.0 record). The two are recorded, not reconciled. Bulletin 1508 classifies a pupil with only deafness and blindness as deaf-blind and requires the LEA to notify the State Deaf-Blind Census; the Louisiana DeafBlind Project at LSU Health Sciences Center carries the technical assistance and intervener training. R.S. 17:1960.1, which v1.0 believed to be the repealed LEAD-K section, is now the Blind and Visually Impaired Child's Bill of Rights and names deaf-blind children; the Deaf Child's Bill of Rights at 17:1960 names them too.

Reference years and frameworks

Enrollment and child count

The 2024-25 IDEA Section 618 federal file (fall 2024) and the 2024-2025 SpedBook (1 February 2025); the school's enrollment from the October 2025 and February 2026 site counts.

Fiscal

FY2025-26 and FY2026-27 (years ending 30 June 2026 and 2027): the State Budget documents for each, the FY2026-27 executive budget, and HCR 23 of 2022 as posted for FY2026-27.

Institutional framework

As in force on 3 and 9 October 2026: the Revised Statutes as legis.la.gov served them and the BESE bulletins as published (the Administrative Code compilation of December 2025).

Frameworks applied

FRM-001 1.0, FRM-002 1.0, FRM-003 1.0, FRM-004 1.0, FRM-005 1.0, STD-002 1.2

The method as applied

Normalizations in force

Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.

• MENTION requires a hearing term on a held capture (FRM-004): an exceptionality or eligibility recital naming deafness or hearing impairment (Caddo), a hearing screening instrument (Acadia, Caldwell), the deaf school named in a cameras policy (St. James, St. Mary), Child Find text naming hearing (West Carroll), or a related service named only as a list item under D-037 (Bossier). A special-education mechanism named with no hearing term is NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded.
• Code changes under the series rule: seven v1.0 NONE FOUND rows move to MENTION on captures held at v2.0 (Acadia, Concordia, Evangeline, St. Mary, West Carroll, Zachary, Bricolage Academy); three v1.0 MENTION rows move to NONE FOUND where the hearing term is gone or was a resource link (Tangipahoa, the Office of Juvenile Justice, Warren Easton); three v1.0 NOT VERIFIABLE rows move to NONE FOUND on a host read at v2.0 (Catahoula, Union, Prescott K-8 Academy).
• PROGRAM requires the unit's own hearing staff, program or service on its own site or in its own program description. Fifteen local education agencies qualify: twelve held from v1.0 (East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany, Calcasieu, Livingston, Ouachita, Iberia, Monroe, St. Charles, Webster, Morehouse, Terrebonne, ReNEW) and three raised from MENTION at v2.0 (Ascension, Jefferson, Lafayette); Bossier falls to MENTION (a list item, D-037). The Special School District is PROGRAM as operator (D-038).
• The weak flag marks a PROGRAM that rests on a staff category, a single named specialist or a document with no program page: Calcasieu, St. Charles, ReNEW, Ascension and Jefferson.
• NOT VERIFIABLE carries the deep review mark (D-040) where two attempts on different calendar days (3 and 9 October 2026) found no readable operator page and one D-039 search found no school-run site: Washington Parish, Wilson Charter School, Community Academies of New Orleans, St. Landry Primary School (its v1.0 MENTION rested on a document on the suspended host), Lake Charles College Prep, and Northeast Claiborne Charter (no website at all: "deep review, no source").
• Three units whose listed host was dead were read on a live host found by one search and coded from it, all NONE FOUND: City of Bogalusa (bogschools.org), Collegiate Baton Rouge (cbr.collegiateacademies.org), Union Parish (unionparishschools.org; its one hit "hearing from you" set aside).
• D-043: 117 rows were read at the listed address; 36 carry "address not taken from the state directory" (the finder lists a school site; the sponsor's own host was read); 5 "listed address is a dead page" (three of them read on a live host found by search); 3 "listed address did not answer" (browser error, timeout or 403 on both days); 1 "no website in directory". The directory's parish code places each sponsor; city and state sponsors carry the parish of their seat.
• The New Orleans charter rows coded from program descriptions held as byte originals (InspireNOLA, Einstein and Collegiate network documents; the Dreams to Achieve description) carry the evidence form "published document (byte original)" (12 rows) and the network as program operator where the document is the network's (D-038); every other row stands on a two-file web capture.
• The identified counts by LEA are not published in Louisiana and every row carries null with the instrument named in the publication measure; the asl_course field is empty for every row because no unit's pages read carried an ASL course (the R.S. 17:284 elective mandate is recorded in INDICATORS).
• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every Louisiana pupil is counted in the sending system and neither the Special School District nor LSD Outreach publishes a sending-system list.

The method and its known limitations

Seven limitations bound this run. First, the identified population by local education agency is not published in Louisiana and the FRM-002 publication measure cannot be computed; the federal 618 state file (fall 2024) is the baseline and the state's SpedBook prints suppressed percentages only. Second, the closure read is a keyword screen over the pages the probe reached (a per-unit page cap from the home page and the special-education paths on 3 October; seeded sets on 9 October), so a program published deep in a site or inside a document the probe did not open can be missed; the compiler review of every hit reduces but does not remove this. Third, six units are NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep review mark after two attempts and one search each, and three were coded from a live host found by search rather than their listed address. Fourth, the state budget and executive budget documents disagree with the Department's certified enrollment files on the district's and the school's pupil counts, and the executive budget's program consolidation removes the deaf school's separate appropriation from FY2026-27; the figures are recorded as each instrument prints them. Fifth, several v1.0 pages were not re-read and stand on the v1.0 record marked as such: the CDC EHDI data, the National Deafblind Child Count, the OPTION Schools directory, The Bright School, the New Orleans Speech and Hearing Center, the board minutes, the press items and the school-finder records; the Department of Health's v1.0 EHDI page failed the same-origin fetch and the Commission's educational-interpreters page answers 404. Sixth, the IDEA grant award letters, the Department's shortage-area instrument and the Special School District's own board agendas were not among the seeds, so the federal flow-through amount, any shortage designation and the superintendent search stand unread. Seventh, no Internet Archive lookup was run in this run, so every source rests on the compiler's captures and digests alone.

Disclosure

Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any Louisiana body named in this file. The v2.0 re-audit was built in the Index's own sequence (the v1.0 first-prompt file of 30 and 31 August 2026 and this v2.0 re-audit under NAT-004 v1.6 wave 1). Louisiana was placed in October on the roadmap (D-064) because an interest in the file had been expressed; no body or person made a direct request for it and no one funded it, so it is not a funded build under D-061 (the owner, 9 October 2026). No party had editorial input, and no Louisiana body was contacted before the notice stage.

Compiled

October 29, 2026

Notice and correction record

Notice sent

October 9, 2026

Window closed

October 26, 2026

Responses

No response was received before the window closed.

Contact of record

Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.

Mailbox

notice@ndedi.org

Postal address

Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330

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Version history

• v2.0

  October 9, 2026, cause: re-audit

  Re-audit from the v1.0 standard (NAT-004 v1.6 section 1; D-058 wave 1; D-064, D-065). Frame re-verified on the state's instruments (162 sponsors of the 2025-2026 School Directory against the October 2025 and February 2026 enrollment files; no NOT OPERATING); closure read of every unit in the rendered browser on 3 and 9 October 2026 (167 and 32 probe records, 979 and 175 pages, 188 and 127 two-file captures, 11 and 32 byte originals, 11 D-039 searches); the compiler review of every keyword hit with the series rule (16 PROGRAM of which 5 weak, 32 MENTION, 108 NONE FOUND, 6 NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep review mark; nineteen code changes tabled); the federal 618 child count and personnel files filed as byte originals (959 hearing impairment, 67 school-age in a separate school, 0 residential; interpreters 11 FTE, audiologists 20.39); Title 17 Chapter 8 Part I read section by section with the choice and health statutes, the five BESE bulletins as the board publishes them (Bulletin 1508 section 709 as amended December 2025, with no decibel threshold, replacing the v1.0 mirror reading), the enacted State Budgets for FY2025-26 and FY2026-27 (the consolidation of the deaf school's program enacted), the FY2026-27 executive budget, HCR 23 of 2022 with Executive Order 26-047, the High Cost Services plans, the Department's enrollment, rates and SpedBook files, the Legislative Auditor's 2023 audit and the Commission for the Deaf's instruments; data modules to the schema 1.3 contract (entities.py authored, la_data.py generated), the eight-sheet workbook, the narrative with Annex A, the trail with the delta table, reconcile.py and the STD-003 checklist; stop-three handback before notice.

• v1.0

  August 31, 2026, cause: first release

  First release: narrative profile, workbook with Fiscal sheet, verification trail, prompt as issued, evidence corpus (captures, derived extracts, audit row sets, agent returns, fetch logs, 251-row URL manifest, contemporaneous source record), verification scripts with 34-check reconciliation output and STD-003 checklist run. 162-unit exhaustive frame; 14 PROGRAM (3 weak), 31 MENTION, 110 NONE FOUND, 7 NOT VERIFIABLE, 0 NOT AUDITED.

Checks record

Release checklist version

1.4

Run date

October 30, 2026

Reconciliation output

18_Louisiana_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt

Run ledger identifiers

R-2026-10-09-09, R-2026-10-09-10, R-2026-10-09-11

Custody and report checks

Report checks output

18_Louisiana_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt

UK spellings in the Index's own prose

0

Files in the evidence manifest

1,092

Evidence manifest check

Pass

Sources with an archive snapshot

0

Sources with no archive snapshot

0

Archive lookups that failed

0

Deposit

DOI for version 2.0

10.5281/zenodo.23256609

DOI for every version (resolves to the newest)

10.5281/zenodo.23256608

Deposit record

zenodo.org/records/23256609

Deposited

October 9, 2026

Licence on the record

Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3) (licensed files restricted; metadata and the summary export open)

SHA-256 of the package as imported

806d6f9991b7908b2480e4db839afb00de9c82ae52ffdadf3168121fd4848151

Sources

Each source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.

Gaps a records request could close

Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.

As of October 9, 2026, the release date of this version.

The narrative profile

What the narrative covers

• In plain language
• Summary of findings
• Governance and legal framework
• The state school
• Communication and language approach
• The statewide outreach and early intervention layer
• The local education agency layer
• The private and listening and spoken language sector
• The market layer
• What local education agencies publish
• Data, and what the state does not measure
• Fiscal allocation and legislative context
• The workforce
• Open items
• Notice and correction
• Sources
• Annex A. How to read this file

The licensed state file for Louisiana carries the narrative profile of this version (11,646 words, rendered here for a licensee), the report and its evidence supplement as PDF and Word, and the workbook with every sheet, and it carries the same figures as this page. It is licensed per state, with a reduced-rate product for Deaf-led and disability organizations, and under the State Partner and national licences. How to request a licence

Downloads

Summary export, free

The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.

• Summary (CSV)

The licensed state file

These files are served to a signed-in account whose licence covers this state. Access tiers and the licence request route

Evidence captures, prompts, declarations, and drafts stay in the repository and are not published.