The State Board of Education is authorized to prescribe, by regulation, the definition of the term “instructional materials and content” to include but not be limited to systematically designed material in any medium, including digital instructional materials and content and any computer hardware, software, and technical equipment necessary to support such instructional materials and content, […]
The State Board of Education may provide for the selection, acquisition, or purchase of instructional materials and content either by multiple listings or uniform adoption or by any other method that will enable the acquiring of acceptable instructional materials and content at the lowest possible costs, provided such adoption or multiple listings shall in no […]
The State Board of Education may select a committee or committees of educators actually engaged in public school work in this state to examine instructional materials and content and make recommendations thereon to the state board. Such committee or committees may consist of such number of educators as the state board may deem advisable. They […]
The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to inaugurate and administer a system of free instructional materials and content for the public schools of this state. The state board shall have authority to promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for that purpose. All instructional materials and content and […]
All purchases or contracts for purchases shall be made subject to the condition that the price paid by the state shall not exceed the price which may be offered by the publisher to any other school or school authority for substantially the same instructional materials and content. History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 896, § 4; […]
Local boards of education are strongly encouraged on and after July 1, 2020, to: Purchase all instructional materials and content in digital or electronic format; and Provide a laptop, tablet, or other wireless electronic device to each of its students in grades three and higher or allow students to provide their own for use as […]
This article shall not apply to students in home study programs or virtual courses. History. Code 1981, § 20-2-2016 , enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1031, § 2-2/SB 89. Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2015, Code Section 20-2-2016, as enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1031, § 2-2/SB 89, was […]
As used in this Code section, the term “locally approved instructional materials and content” means instructional materials and content, as defined by the State Board of Education pursuant to Code Section 20-2-1010, which constitute the principal source of study for a state funded course, not including supplementary or ancillary material, which is adopted by a […]
