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SC Code § 59-29-570 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 29 - Subjects Of Instruction|Section 59-29-570. Implementation review; grantee participation; reports.

 (A) The Financial Literacy Board of Trustees shall establish internal evaluation policies and procedures for an annual review of the implementation of strategies and progress toward the interim goals and benchmarks. In instances where no progress has been made, the Financial Literacy Board shall provide targeted assistance or the board may terminate the grant. In addition, a program evaluation of the Financial Literacy Initiatives at the state and local levels must be conducted every three years by an independent, external evaluator under contract with the Financial Literacy Board of Trustees. However, the selected evaluator must be approved, and the evaluation overseen, by a committee consisting of three members, one appointed by the Financial Literacy Board, one appointed by the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and one appointed by the Chairman of the House Education and Public Works Committee. These committee members must be professionally recognized as proficient in accounting, finance, banking, tax, insurance, or a closely related field. The first report must be provided no later than January 1, 2010.  (B) Grantees shall agree to participate in an evaluation in order to receive a Financial Literacy grant. Subsequent grant approval and grant allocations must be dependent, in part, on the results of the evaluations. If an evaluation finds no progress has been made in meeting goals or implementing strategies as agreed to in the grant, the grant must be terminated.  (C) The purpose of the evaluation is to assess progress toward achieving the Financial Literacy goals and to determine the impact of the initiative on students at the state and local levels. The impact assessment shall include, but is not limited to, end-of-course evaluations and projects. During the course of the evaluation, if an evaluator determines that a state agency has failed to comply with the coordination and collaboration provisions as required in this chapter, the final report must reflect that information. Program evaluation reports must be reported to the General Assembly no later than three months after conclusion of the evaluation.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 382, Section 2, eff June 14, 2006.
SC Code § 59-31-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-10. Library committee.

 There shall be a library committee composed of the State Superintendent of Education, the director of the division of elementary education, the high school supervisor and four other members to be appointed by the State Superintendent of Education, two representing the elementary schools and two representing the high schools. All library books provided for under Article 3 of this chapter shall be selected from an approved list to be furnished the State Board of Education by the library committee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-454; 1952 Code Section 21-454; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1932 Code Section 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-20. Field workers.

 The State Board of Education may appoint five field workers who shall be charged with the duties assigned by the Board and shall perform any and all duties required by the provisions of this chapter. As compensation for their services such field workers shall each receive a salary and, in addition thereto, actual traveling expenses incurred while in the discharge of their duties as provided by law.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-455; 1952 Code Section 21-455; 1942 Code Section 5290; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-30. Use of uniform series of textbooks in public schools; exceptions.

 The State Board of Education shall designate a uniform series of textbooks which shall be used in every free public school of this State receiving any State aid for any purpose whatsoever. No school failing or refusing to use such uniform series of textbooks, unless expressly permitted by law so to do, shall receive any State school aid for any purpose whatsoever. But the provisions of this section shall not apply to any school district that provides free schoolbooks to the value of twenty thousand dollars or more to the school children of such district. The State Board of Education is hereby charged with the enforcement of this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-456; 1952 Code Section 21-456; 1942 Code Section 5284; 1932 Code Section 5290; 1925 (34) 89.
SC Code § 59-31-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-40. Adoption of new books; contract terms.

 The meetings of the State Board of Education in any year at which an adoption is made must be public. New textbooks adopted by the State Board of Education in any year must not be used in the free public schools of this State until the next school session begins. Each contract between the State Board of Education and a publisher of textbooks and instructional materials or vendor of instructional technology must require that all textbooks or other instructional material rented or purchased by the State be free of any clear, substantive, factual, or grammatical error. The contract also must allow the State Board of Education to require reasonable remedies if an error is found.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-457; 1952 Code Section 21-457; 1947 (45) 55; 1997 Act No. 140, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-31-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-45. Selection of textbooks; requests; procedures.

 (A) In addition to any other method of textbook selection, the State Board of Education shall add to the approved list of textbooks for use in the public schools of this State any textbook or series of textbooks which have been reviewed and not adopted by the state board if the textbook or series is requested in writing by the boards of trustees of five or more school districts or by the boards of trustees of two or more school districts with a combined population of twenty-five thousand or more students. Local school districts shall establish procedures under which principals and teachers of the district may transmit textbook requests as permitted by this section.  (B) The number of requests required to be received above shall be as received during any three hundred sixty-five day period. A textbook so required to be added to the approved list shall be added within thirty days following the receipt by the state board of the requisite number of requests, provided that the publishers whose textbooks are to be added to the approved list as provided in this section comply with the same provisions regarding textbooks as other publishers including, but not limited to, price, durability, and availability. No designation shall be included upon the approved list which indicates the manner in which any textbook was added to the list.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 140, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-31-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-50. Use of disapproved books unlawful.

 In all schools and colleges within this State which are supported in whole or in part from the free school funds it shall be unlawful to use any textbook which has been condemned or disapproved by the State Board of Education.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-458; 1952 Code Section 21-458; 1942 Code Section 5298; 1932 Code Section 5425; Civ. C. '22 Section 2690; Civ. C. '12 Section 1804; Civ. C. '02 Section 1240; 1898 (22) 763.
SC Code § 59-31-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-60. Issuing notes for books or borrowing to pay for same.

 The State Board of Education may issue its negotiable notes with interest not exceeding three and one-half per cent per annum and may pledge all books purchased and all rentals collected under Article 3 of this chapter, after the payment of all administrative expenses, for the discharge of rental or purchase contracts. The full faith, credit and taxing power of the State are pledged for the payment of such notes. The State Board of Education, in its discretion, may borrow upon the same terms as above authorized, from any available source, the money with which to purchase such schoolbooks, at a rate of interest not to exceed three and one-half per cent per annum. But no notes shall be issued hereunder without the written approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Articles 1 to 5 of this chapter and enabling the State to avail itself to the fullest extent of Federal aid, in the form of grants or otherwise, that is available for use in the State for this and other purposes, the Governor shall procure from all sources available such amounts of funds as may be needed to carry out the terms and purposes of said articles.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-459; 1952 Code Section 21-459; 1942 Code Section 5292; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-65 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-65. Acquisition of instructional technology.

 State funds for the acquisition of textbooks in the public schools of this State may also be used to acquire instructional technology and other similar materials which have been approved by the State Board of Education. The procedures applicable to the use of these funds to acquire textbooks are also applicable to the acquisition of instructional technology and other similar materials. The State Board of Education shall promulgate those regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.  HISTORY: 1992 Act No. 320, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-31-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-70. Purchase of textbooks; reimbursement from state school textbook funds.

 A school district may purchase school textbooks approved by the Board of Education for instructional use directly from a publisher under contract with the state board when needed for instruction by the school district if the textbooks are not available from the State Department of Education. In this event, the district shall be reimbursed from state school textbook funds of the Department of Education when these textbook funds become available, in accordance with any agreement between the school district and the department.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 140, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-31-75 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-75. Textbooks required for course to begin.

 A public school may not begin a course if state-approved textbooks or other course material is not available on the first day of class or if the delivery date is after the first two weeks of classes unless the board of trustees determines that the class should be offered.  HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 140, Section 4.
SC Code § 59-31-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-210. Board required to provide textbooks on rental basis.

 The State Board of Education shall provide all the textbooks for use in the public schools of the State on a rental system whereby the pupils in the public schools will pay an annual rental in an amount to be fixed by the State Board of Education, in its discretion, graduated as to grades, sufficient to pay all the costs of the administration of this article and the purchase of any books necessary to be acquired by the State Board of Education. But the Board shall not be required to furnish materials which shall be consumed or rendered worthless in any one year, such as pencils, tablets, workbooks, drawing materials and other similar articles.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-471; 1952 Code Section 21-471; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-220. Furnishing library books.

 The State Board of Education shall furnish library books, from an approved list, to the public school districts or counties of this State upon the same terms and conditions that textbooks are now furnished under the terms of this article. But when any school district or county shall pay the State Board of Education the purchase price, plus interest, for such library books, such books shall become the property of such school district or county.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-472; 1952 Code Section 21-472; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-230 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-230. Furnishing audio-visual equipment.

 The State Department of Education shall provide audio-visual equipment, including films and motion-picture projectors, for the use in the free public schools of the State on either the State rental plan or the library purchase plan.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-473.1; 1965 (54) 232.
SC Code § 59-31-240 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-240. Pupils' option to purchase or rent books.

 No pupil in the public schools of the State shall be required to pay any larger amount for the use of the books than authorized by Section 59-31-210 nor to buy outright or otherwise acquire any textbook. But any pupil may purchase, if he so desires, the books to be used by him, in which event no rental fee will be charged to such pupil. The State Board of Education shall make proper arrangements for the sale of textbooks to those pupils who desire to purchase them, and such textbooks shall be sold at cost plus actual expenses.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-474; 1952 Code Section 21-474; 1942 Code Sections 5286, 5289; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-250 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-250. State institutions of higher learning authorized to establish textbook rental systems.

 Any State institution of higher learning may, in the discretion of its board of trustees or other governing body, set up a textbook rental system in the same manner as is provided in Section 59-31-210 for school districts and may choose or purchase its own textbooks. All funds received by such institutions from rental of books belonging to such institutions shall be retained by them respectively.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-475; 1952 Code Section 21-475; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-260 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-260. School districts and counties authorized to establish rental or free textbook systems.

 Nothing contained in this article shall abrogate the power to set up rental or free textbook systems of any school district or county that may have such right, and all rentals received by any such district or county from rental of books belonging to such district or county shall be retained by such district or county. And school districts enrolling five thousand or more school pupils shall have the right to set up rental or free textbook systems and choose and purchase their own textbooks. All rentals received by such districts from rental of books belonging to such districts shall be retained by such districts. But any such county or school district having its own rental or free textbook system shall be entitled to receive all benefits under the rental library provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-476; 1952 Code Section 21-476; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-270 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-270. Abandonment of county or district rental or free textbook system.

 Upon the resolution of the county legislative delegation any county or school district may abandon its rental or free system of textbooks and accept the provisions of this article. Upon any such county or school district abandoning its rental or free system and accepting the provisions of this article, the State Board of Education shall make, or cause to be made, an investigation and shall determine the value to the State of any textbooks belonging to such county or district which can reasonably be of use to the State under this article, and the Board shall purchase such useful books from such county or district, paying therefor either in cash or in such installments as may be agreed upon between the State Board of Education on the one hand and the county board of education, or trustees, as the case may be, on the other hand. In the event it be agreed to pay therefor in installments, the State Board of Education shall enter into reimbursement agreements with such officials to pay such installments in the future.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-477; 1952 Code Section 21-477; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-280 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-280. Subsequent election to come under system.

 Notwithstanding that any school district or county may have exercised the privilege accorded under Section 59-31-410 not to come under the provisions of this article, any such school district or county may retract any such election by filing with the State Board of Education a written statement, which for any school district shall be signed by the board of trustees of such district and approved by the Senator and at least one half of the representatives from such county and for any county shall be signed by the county board of education and approved by the Senator and at least one half of the representatives of such county, in either case to the effect that the district or the county, as the case may be, desires to retract any such election theretofore made by it and to come under the provisions of this article. Upon any such statement being filed, any such school district or county, as the case may be, shall thereupon come under the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-478; 1952 Code Section 21-478; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
SC Code § 59-31-290 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-290. Rules and regulations for depositories; distribution and damage to books.

 The State Board of Education shall adopt, establish and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this article, which, when not in conflict with the terms and purposes of this article, shall have full legal force and effect. Such rules and regulations shall provide a system of depositories for the books in the various counties of the State, which depositories may be designated as the State Board of Education may deem best, and shall establish a method of distributing the books to the pupils and provide for the reasonable use, care and safety of the books, with reasonable penalties for the abuse or destruction of any books, to fall upon those using the books or those in charge of their distribution and use. Such rules and regulations shall provide for payment by the pupils, their parents or legal guardians for the loss of or damage, if any, to any books, ordinary wear and tear excepted.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-479; 1952 Code Section 21-479; 1942 Code Section 5289; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-300 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-300. Retention of books within districts.

 As far as may be practicable the State Board of Education shall provide for the retention of all necessary schoolbooks for use by the school districts within such districts.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-480; 1952 Code Section 21-480; 1942 Code Section 5295; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-310 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-310. Counties required to provide depositories for books.

 The various counties, through their properly constituted authorities, shall furnish a sufficient and proper place for depositing or storing books used in such counties.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-481; 1952 Code Section 21-481; 1942 Code Section 5289; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-320 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-320. Contracts with publishers for general depositories.

 The State Board of Education may require all publishers of textbooks with whom textbook contracts have been made to maintain a joint agency or depository, in some city in the State to be located at some suitable and convenient distributing point, at which general depository each textbook publisher shall keep on hand a sufficient stock of books to supply the requirements of the State and through which central depository all textbooks shall be distributed. Any person or school not controlled by the State may order books from the general depository, and the books so ordered shall be furnished for cash at cost plus actual expenses.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-482; 1952 Code Section 21-482; 1942 Code Section 5289; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-330 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-330. Fumigation or disinfection of books.

 The State Board of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Environmental Control, shall adopt rules and regulations governing the fumigation or disposal of textbooks from quarantined homes and for the regular disinfection of all textbooks used in the public schools of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-483; 1952 Code Section 21-483; 1942 Code Section 5295; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-340 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-340. School districts responsible for proper protection, use and care of books.

 The director shall hold each school district in the State responsible for the proper protection, use and care of all schoolbooks allotted to each such district under the terms of this article. Each school district shall make reports to the director when required by the director as to the books on hand and their condition and shall, within thirty days after the end of each school term, return all schoolbooks allocated to such district to the place or places required by the director. The director shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each school term, determine the loss and damage, if any, ordinary wear and tear excepted, sustained by such books in any school district or other educational unit and shall make demand for the payment for such damage upon the various districts and units against which loss and damage shall have been assessed. Any such district or unit feeling itself aggrieved by any such determination may appeal to the State Board of Education. Unless such appeal be taken and sustained, any such district or unit shall forthwith pay for such loss and damage.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-484; 1952 Code Section 21-484; 1942 Code Section 5293; 1936 (39) 1549.
SC Code § 59-31-350 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 31 - Textbooks|Section 59-31-350. Rentals payable annually in advance.

 The rentals shall be paid by or for each pupil annually in advance upon the opening of school, before any pupil is allowed the use of the books.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-485; 1952 Code Section 21-485; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.