2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 156 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 156.445 Only recommended textbook or program to be used as basal title -- Exceptions -- When changes to be effective -- Approval of materials for private and parochial schools.
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156.445 Only recommended textbook or program to be used as basal title -Exceptions -- When changes to be effective -- Approval of materials for
private and parochial schools.
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No textbook or program shall be used in any public school in Kentucky as a
basal title unless it has been recommended and listed on the state multiple list
by the State Textbook Commission or unless a school and district has met the
notification requirements under subsection (2) of this section. Any changes of
textbooks made by the State Textbook Commission shall not become effective
until grades and classes of the respective county and independent school
districts have completed work for which the adopted book then in use was
originally intended. Nothing in this section shall apply to the supplementary
books that are needed from time to time.
A school council, or if none exists, the principal, may notify, through the
superintendent, the State Textbook Commission that it plans to adopt a basal
textbook or program that is not on the recommended list by submitting
evidence that the title it has chosen meets the selection criteria of the State
Textbook Commission in KRS 156.405(3)(b) and the subject specific criteria of
the textbook reviewers pursuant to KRS 156.407(5) and complies with the
required publisher specifications.
In approving text materials for private and parochial schools for the purpose of
KRS 156.160(3) the text materials shall be approved if they are comprehensive
and appropriate to the grade level in question notwithstanding the fact that they
may contain elements of religious philosophy.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 419, sec. 11, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 266, sec. 6, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky.
Acts ch. 476, Pt. I, sec. 32, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts
ch. 297, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 136,
sec. 5, effective July 1, 1979; and ch. 155, sec. 160, effective June 17, 1978. -Created 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 10.
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