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. - Kentucky Statutes

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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. (1) 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. (2) 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. (3) 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.