A. There is hereby created the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts which shall be a state center primarily for the training of high school students operated in a facility owned by the state which was designed and built to house a program of professional quality training, coaching, and performing for students who aspire to be artists, performers, and arts technicians. The center shall provide for the enrollment of qualified students from the state of Louisiana. The center shall begin operation as a state center as provided in this Part beginning July 1, 2000. The center shall be an agency of state government and shall be independent of the control of the state superintendent and of all local and state education boards, except the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts board of directors.
B. The center shall be governed and managed by a board of directors the membership of which and the powers and duties of which shall be as provided in this Part.