The board shall refrain from adopting any textbook in a subject field, whenever it finds that no textbook can be documented as meeting, to the degree determined by the board, the guidelines and criteria established by the board for textbooks. The board may also review and adopt other instructional material which it considers appropriate for grade and subject fields. The board may approve the request of a publisher to substitute a more recent edition of any officially adopted textbook or item of instructional material in lieu of the edition or item adopted by the board. 337.060 Submission of proposals by publishers. 337.065 Publisher fee.
Fees are payable prior to consideration of the proposal.
The moneys are continuously appropriated to meet expenses incurred under this chapter. 337.075 Adoption or rejection of proposals. The State Board of Education may adopt or reject any textbook contained in any proposal. If the terms and conditions for furnishing a textbook in all proposals relating to that textbook are considered by the board to be unreasonable or the textbook is considered to be unsuitable pursuant to guidelines and criteria established by the board, the board may reject the textbook. No proposal shall be considered unless the publisher has delivered without charge two copies of each textbook contained in the proposal to the Department of Education at least 60 days before the meeting.