SECTION 210:10-15-3. Provisions for alternate textbook selection

(a)   State Board of Education Textbook Petition. Five or more district boards of education may petition the State Board of Education to add a book or series of textbooks to the approved list selected by the State Textbook Committee [70:16-102(D)]. The State Board of Education Textbook Petition Form is available by writing: State Board of Education, 2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4599, or by calling: [phone].

(b)   Approved List. Upon receipt of textbook petition forms for a book or a series of textbooks from five or more district boards of education and upon approval of said petitions by the State Board of Education, the book or series of textbooks approved shall be added to the list selected by the State Textbook Committee. The publisher of materials added to the list through this petition process shall enter into a contract in accordance with 70 O.S. 16-106 and with the same provisions agreed upon by all other publishers.

(c)   Use of state textbook funds. Districts may immediately, upon approval of petitioned materials by the State Board of Education, purchase said materials with state textbook funds. It shall be clearly noted, however, that any district in the state may purchase the materials approved by the State Board of Education.

(d)   Restrictions.

(1)   The State Board of Education will not consider petitions during the process of deliberation by the State Textbook Committee from the time bids are submitted in the given subject area up for state adoption until the time the final selections for adoption by the State Textbook Committee are announced.

(2)   Any publisher whose textbooks are added to the approved list selected by the State Textbook Committee through petitioning the State Board of Education shall establish and maintain a suitable and convenient depository or depositories in the state of Oklahoma where a stock of their books to supply all immediate demands shall be kept.

[Source: Added at 10 Ok Reg 4279, eff 7-28-93 (emergency); Added at 11 Ok Reg 1977, eff 5-26-94; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 4763, eff 9-14-94 (emergency); Amended at 12 Ok Reg 1353, eff 5-25-95]