2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 59 - Education
CHAPTER 31 - TEXTBOOKS
Section 59-31-610. Public review and hearings.
The State Superintendent of Education shall make arrangements for a thirty-day public review of materials recommended by the instructional materials review panels prior to taking those recommendations to the State Board of Education. The public review sites must be geographically distributed around the State at as many state-supported colleges and universities or, if necessary, other designated sites as may agree to host the reviews. Public review sites shall be advertised in each congressional district in the newspaper with the largest circulation figures for that district.
The state board shall hold a public hearing before adopting any textbook or instructional material for use in the schools of this State.
HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 140, Section 7.
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