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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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156.445 Only recommended textbook or program to be used as basal title -- Exceptions -- When changes to be effective -- Approval of materials for private <br>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 <br>Textbook Commission or unless a school and district has met the notification <br>requirements under subsection (2) of this section. Any changes of textbooks made <br>by the State Textbook Commission shall not become effective until grades and <br>classes of the respective county and independent school districts have completed <br>work for which the adopted book then in use was originally intended. Nothing in <br>this section shall apply to the supplementary books that are needed from time to <br>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 <br>textbook or program that is not on the recommended list by submitting evidence <br>that the title it has chosen meets the selection criteria of the State Textbook <br>Commission in KRS 156.405(3)(b) and the subject specific criteria of the textbook <br>reviewers pursuant to KRS 156.407(5) and complies with the required publisher <br>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 <br>appropriate to the grade level in question notwithstanding the fact that they may <br>contain elements of religious philosophy. Effective: July 14, 2000 <br>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 <br>ch. 266, sec. 6, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. I, <br>sec. 32, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 297, sec. 2, effective <br>July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 136, sec. 5, effective July 1, 1979; and <br>ch. 155, sec. 160, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 10.