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 event constitute a binding contract until ratified in writing by the state board. None of the instructional materials and content so purchased shall contain anything of a partisan or sectarian nature.
(Ga. L. 1937, p. 896, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1031, § 2-2/SB 89.)
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted "selection, acquisition, or purchase of instructional materials and content" for "selection and purchase of free textbooks" in the first sentence of this Code section, and substituted "instructional materials and content" for "books" in the first and second sentences.
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALState Board of Education may require lay advisory group's approval as to textbooks the board selects, provided that in so doing the board continues to exercise the board's own independent judgment and responsibility in making the final decisions concerning textbook selection and does not in fact attempt to delegate the board's decision-making powers to such advisory only committees. 1977 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 77-13.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 353.
C.J.S.- 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 1080.