O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-1011 (2019)

Selecting, acquiring, and purchasing instructional materials and content; exclusion of partisan or sectarian material

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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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.

History

Ga. L. 1937, p. 896, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1031, § 2-2/SB 89.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL State 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.