KRS 156.476: Instructional materials for children with impaired vision -- Requirement

that publisher or developer of adopted instructional materials furnish

American Printing House for the Blind with text in electronic format.

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state

school officer, shall select suitable instructional materials and programs in an

appropriate format, which include braille textbooks, and other materials available in

clear type of eighteen (18) to twen ty-four (24) points in the different subject areas

for children with impaired vision who are attending the public schools of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky in grades kindergarten through twelve (12). These

instructional materials shall not be subject to the official bids, filing fees, sampling,

and the stipulated list prices, lowest wholesale prices, and the standards and

specifications required for the instructional materials approved and listed by the

State Quality Curriculum Task Force under KRS 156.395 to 156.476 for regular use

by the pupils attending the public schools of the State of Kentucky. The Kentucky

Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the chief state school officer, may

promulgate an administrative regulation determining the pupils eli gible for the

instructional materials, the number and types of instructional materials to be

purchased, and the general administration of the program. The chief state school

officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, may purchase

these books and materials and distribute them without cost to the pupils with

impaired vision attending the public schools of the state. All instructional materials

and programs purchased under this section for the pupils with impaired vision are

the property of the state.

(2) The Department of Education shall require any publisher or developer of an

instructional material or program adopted for use in the public schools of the

Commonwealth to furnish the American Printing House for the Blind with an

electronic version of those instructional materials either in the American Standard

Code for Information Interchange, (ASCII), or in any other format which can be

readily translated into braille or large print.