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.
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.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education
Article 19 - Instructional Materials and Content
§ 20-2-1010. Instructional Materials and Content
§ 20-2-1014. Purchases to Be at Lowest Price Offered Other Schools
§ 20-2-1015. Instructional Materials and Content in Digital or Electronic Format; Funding