2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 156 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 156.476 Textbooks for children with impaired vision -- Requirement that publisher of adopted textbook furnish American Printing House for the Blind with text in electronic format.
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156.476 Textbooks for children with impaired vision -- Requirement that
publisher of adopted textbook furnish American Printing House for the
Blind with text in electronic format.
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The Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state
school officer, shall select suitable textbooks and programs in an appropriate
format, which include braille textbooks, and other materials available in clear
type of eighteen (18) to twenty-four (24) points in the different subject areas for
children with impaired vision who are attending the public schools of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky in grades kindergarten through twelve (12). These
books and materials shall not be subject to the official bids, filing fees,
sampling, and the stipulated list prices, lowest wholesale prices, and the
standards and specifications required for the books and materials approved
and listed by the State Textbook Commission for regular use by the pupils
attending the public schools of the State of Kentucky. The Kentucky Board of
Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer, may
promulgate an administrative regulation determining the pupils eligible for the
books and materials, the number of books and types of materials to be
purchased, and the general administration of the program. The chief state
school officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, may
purchase these books and materials and distribute them without cost to the
pupils with impaired vision attending the public schools of the state. All books
and programs purchased under this section for the pupils with impaired vision
are the property of the state.
The Department of Education shall require any publisher of a textbook or
program adopted for use in the public schools of the Commonwealth to furnish
the American Printing House for the Blind with computer diskettes or tapes of
those print materials either in the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange, (ASCII), or in any other format, either electronic or print, which
can be readily translated into braille or large print.
Effective:July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 419, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1996.. -- Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky.
Acts ch. 476, Pt. IV, sec. 165, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts
ch. 463, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 7,
effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 155, sec. 82, effective
June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 13, effective March 13,
1974. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 3.
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