KRS 156.445: Only state -approved instructional material or program to be used as core

comprehensive resource -- Exceptions -- When changes to be effective --

Approval of materials for private and parochial schools.

(1) Instructional materials or program s for reading and writing, mathematics, science,

and social studies shall not be used in any public school in Kentucky as a core

comprehensive resource unless they have been recommended and listed on the

state-approved list by the State Quality Curriculum Task Force, or unless a school

and district has met the notification requirements under subsection (2) of this

section. Any changes of instructional materials made by the task force shall not

become effective until grades and classes of school districts ha ve completed work

for which the adopted materials then in use were originally intended. This section

shall not apply to the supplementary materials that are needed from time to time.

(2) The superintendent of a school district shall submit a notification t o the department

if the school district plans to adopt instructional materials or a program as a core

comprehensive resource for reading and writing, mathematics, science, or social

studies that is not on the state -approved list by submitting evidence that the

instructional materials or program it has chosen meets the selection criteria of the

task force in KRS 156.405(3)(a) or (b) and the subject specific criteria of the

textbook reviewers pursuant to KRS 156.407(4) and complies with the required

specifications.

(3) In approving text materials for private and parochial schools for the purpose of

KRS 156.160(2) the text materials shall be approved if they are comprehensive and

appropriate to the grade level in question notwithstanding the fact that they may

contain elements of religious philosophy.