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2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-360. Waiver of textbook rental charges; use of school district books.

The State Board of Education shall waive textbook rental charges for grades kindergarten through twelve of the public schools, to the end that basal textbooks adopted and approved by the board for use in the public schools must be supplied to the school children of the State without charge. Title to books so provided shall remain in the State Board of Education. Each school district shall fully utilize all books owned by it to effect the purposes of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-486; 1952 Code Section 21-486; 1942 Code Section 5296; 1936 (39) 1549; 1966 (54) 2623; 1977 Act No. 219 Pt II Section 13; 1978 Act No. 644 Part II, Section 16; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 27.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-370. Collection and payment of rentals.

The rentals provided hereunder shall be collected by the various school districts in the State, and each school district shall pay the amount thereof due for the use of books by the pupils in such district within thirty days from the date of the opening of the schools or the admission of new pupils to the schools. No schoolbooks shall be delivered to any school child on a rental plan until the rentals have been fully paid.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-487; 1952 Code Section 21-487; 1942 Code Section 5290; 1936 (39) 1549.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-380. Tax levy for payment of losses; damages or unpaid rentals.

Upon proper certification by the State Board of Education and county superintendent of education, the county auditors and county treasurers of the respective counties in which such school districts or units are located shall levy sufficient millage in or upon any such school district or other educational unit sufficient to pay any amount due the State Board of Education for any loss, damage or rentals due by such district or other educational unit under the terms of this article. But in the event there are sufficient funds on deposit to the credit of the school district or other educational unit, the trustees of the school district or the county board of education are directed to draw a warrant against such funds to cover the amount of such loss or shortage in rental funds accruing under the terms of this article, in which case no levy shall be made.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-488; 1952 Code Section 21-488; 1942 Code Section 5293; 1936 (39) 1549.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-390. Administrative expenses shall be paid out of rentals.

All necessary expenses incurred in administering the terms of this article shall be paid from the rentals collected hereunder.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-489; 1952 Code Section 21-489; 1942 Code Section 5289; 1936 (39) 1549.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-400. School authorities shall cooperate in administration of system.

The county superintendents and boards of education in the various counties of the State shall cooperate with the State Board of Education in the administration of the terms of this article and the rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education in such manner as may be requested or required by the State Board of Education. All superintendents, principals and teachers in the schools of this State shall cooperate fully with the State Board of Education and county boards of education in the proper and orderly administration of the terms of this article, and the State Board of Education may promulgate rules to provide cooperation by the superintendents, principals and teachers and to establish penalties for failure to cooperate.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-490; 1952 Code Section 21-490; 1942 Code Section 5291; 1936 (39) 1549.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-410. Exclusions from applicability of article.

The provisions of this article shall not apply (a) to any school district the board of trustees of which filed before August 1, 1936 with the former State Schoolbook Commission a written statement, approved by the Senator and at least one half of the representatives from such county, to the effect that it did not elect to come under the provisions of this article nor (b) to any county the county board of education of which filed before August 1, 1936 with the former State Schoolbook Commission a written statement, approved by the Senator and at least one half of the representatives from such county, to the effect that it did not elect to come under the provisions of this article.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-491; 1952 Code Section 21-491; 1942 Code Section 5286; 1936 (39) 1549; 1937 (40) 206; 1939 (41) 1; 1945 (44) 266.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-510. Contracts with publishers for rental or purchase of books.

The State Board of Education may negotiate and execute contracts with the publishers of textbooks and instructional materials and vendors of instructional technology that allow the State to rent from the publishers or buy outright the books to be used in the public schools, with discretion in the State Board of Education to make rental contracts or purchase contracts as may be to the best advantage of the State. A contract made with a publisher of textbooks may be made so as to divide the payment to the publisher for rental or purchase over a period of three years, but it must not be construed to prevent the State Board of Education from purchasing or renting additional books as necessary. If the State Board of Education decides to purchase outright the books to be used in the schools of this State, they must be purchased at the lowest possible prices and, so far as existing contracts for state-adopted books shall permit, pursuant to competitive bidding.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-501; 1952 Code Section 21-501; 1942 Code Section 5292; 1936 (39) 1549; 1997 Act No. 140, Section 5.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-520. Continuance of contracts with publishers.

At the expiration of any contract between the State and the publisher of any textbook, the State Board of Education, upon satisfactory agreement being had with such publisher, may continue the contract for any such textbook, or the latest editions thereof, for an indefinite period which may be terminated either by the State Board of Education or the publisher upon ninety days' notice. The Board may extend contracts at different prices from those of the original contracts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-502; 1952 Code Section 21-502; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-530. Duration of original contracts.

Original contracts made with publishers of all textbooks and providers of instructional materials shall run for not less than one year nor more than six years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-503; 1952 Code Section 21-503; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 43A.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-540. Most favored purchaser clause in contract.

All contracts shall provide that if any person who furnishes adopted textbooks to the State shall sell the same textbooks or cause them to be sold to any other person, state or state board for a price less than that which this State has contracted to pay for such textbooks, then such lower price shall automatically become the contract price for such textbooks in this State and the contents of the textbooks shall be considered and not the title in investigating such prices. The State Board of Education shall make the necessary investigations as to the prices of such textbooks so sold to other persons, states or state boards.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-504; 1952 Code Section 21-504; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-550. Bids; details as to contracts.

The State Board of Education shall make all necessary rules and regulations pertaining to:
(1) The advertisement of bids;
(2) The submission of prices;
(3) The sampling of, and hearings on, textbooks offered for adoption;
(4) The nature and type of contract to be entered into between the State and the publisher;
(5) The nature and type of bond to be entered into between the State and the publisher, the penal amount of such bond, conditioned upon the faithful performance by the publisher, of any contract awarded to it, to be not more than five thousand dollars;
(6) The distribution of textbooks through central or local depositories, subject to the provisions of Article 3 of this chapter providing for a rental system of textbooks for the free public schools; and
(7) All other needful rules and regulations not otherwise herein specified.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-505; 1952 Code Section 21-505; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-560. Approval of contracts and publishers' bonds by Attorney General.

The Attorney General of the State shall approve all contracts to be entered into between the State and publishers and shall approve the bond to be filed by each contract publisher. Such bond shall be placed in the custody of the State Treasurer.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-506; 1952 Code Section 21-506; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-570. Change in terms of contracts.

The State Board of Education may, in its discretion, postpone, alter, amend or modify the terms of State adoption of textbook contracts.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-507; 1952 Code Section 21-507; 1942 Code Section 5287; 1936 (39) 1549.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-580. Attorney General shall enforce article.

The Attorney General shall institute and prosecute suits against all violators of the provisions of this article and all contracts entered into in violation of the terms of this article shall be null and void.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-508; 1952 Code Section 21-508; 1942 Code Section 5282; 1932 Code Section 5289; Civ. C. '22 Section 2549; Civ. C. '12 Section 1708; Civ. C. '02 Section 1184; 1896 (22) 150; 1914 (28) 450; 1915 (29) 188; 1923 (33) 147; 1927 (35) 354; 1928 (35) 1215; 1931 (37) 391; 1940 (41) 1763, 1886; 1947 (45) 55.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-590. School personnel not permitted to act as agents for publishers.

It shall be unlawful for any teacher of a school supported in whole or in part from the public school funds of this State or any trustee of any such school or any other school officer to become an active or silent agent of any schoolbook publisher or be in anywise pecuniarily interested in the introduction of any schoolbook into any school in this State. Any person violating any of the provisions hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the circuit judge.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-509; 1952 Code Section 21-509; 1942 Code Section 5297; 1932 Code Section 1556; Cr. C. '22 Section 504; Cr. C. '12 Section 576; Cr. C. '02 Section 419; 1896 (22) 170.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-600. Standards for textbook adoptions.

When the State Board of Education determines that a textbook or instructional material adoption is needed in a specific field, the board shall direct evaluating and rating committees to assess the textbook or instructional material for the development of higher-order thinking skills and problem solving. Each evaluation and rating committee may have up to twenty-five percent lay membership. A majority of those appointed to the committee must be full-time classroom teachers. In addition to monitoring the accuracy of facts and grammar, the committee shall include in its rating and evaluating criteria, where applicable, satisfaction of state mandates for graduation criteria and support for the benefits of the American economic and political system. The results of each evaluating and rating committee's assessment must be included in its written report to the State Board of Education. Where otherwise satisfactory, the evaluating and rating committee shall recommend and the State Board of Education shall adopt textbooks and other instructional materials which develop higher-order thinking skills.
HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 194, Section 11; 1997 Act No. 140, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 31 - Textbooks › Section 59-31-610. Public review and hearings.

The State Superintendent of Education shall make arrangements for a thirty-day public review of materials recommended by the instructional materials review panels prior to taking those recommendations to the State Board of Education. The public review sites must be geographically distributed around the State at as many state-supported colleges and universities or, if necessary, other designated sites as may agree to host the reviews. Public review sites shall be advertised in each congressional district in the newspaper with the largest circulation figures for that district.
The State Board shall hold a public hearing before adopting any textbook or instructional material for use in the schools of this State.
HISTORY: 1997 Act No. 140, Section 7.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-10. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(1) "Comprehensive health education" means health education in a school setting that is planned and carried out with the purpose of maintaining, reinforcing, or enhancing the health, health-related skills, and health attitudes and practices of children and youth that are conducive to their good health and that promote wellness, health maintenance, and disease prevention. It includes age-appropriate, sequential instruction in health either as part of existing courses or as a special course.
(2) "Reproductive health education" means instruction in human physiology, conception, prenatal care and development, childbirth, and postnatal care, but does not include instruction concerning sexual practices outside marriage or practices unrelated to reproduction except within the context of the risk of disease. Abstinence and the risks associated with sexual activity outside of marriage must be strongly emphasized.
(3) "Family life education" means instruction intended to:
(a) develop an understanding of the physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, and psychological aspects of close personal relationships and an understanding of the physiological, psychological, and cultural foundations of human development;
(b) provide instruction that will support the development of responsible personal values and behavior and aid in establishing a strong family life for themselves in the future and emphasize the responsibilities of marriage.
(c) provide instruction as to the laws of this State relating to the sexual conduct of minors, including criminal sexual conduct.
(4) "Pregnancy prevention education" means instruction intended to:
(a) stress the importance of abstaining from sexual activity until marriage;
(b) help students develop skills to enable them to resist peer pressure and abstain from sexual activity;
(c) explain methods of contraception and the risks and benefits of each method. Abortion must not be included as a method of birth control. Instruction explaining the methods of contraception must not be included in any education program for grades kindergarten through fifth. Contraceptive information must be given in the context of future family planning.
(5) "Local school board" means the governing board of public school districts as well as those of other state-supported institutions which provide educational services to students at the elementary and secondary school level. For purposes of this chapter, programs or services provided by the Department of Health and Environmental Control in educational settings must be approved by the local school board.
(6) "Board" means the State Board of Education.
(7) "Department" means the State Department of Education.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-20. Selection or adoption of instruction units by state board required.

(A) Before August 1, 1988, the board, through the department, shall select or develop an instructional unit with separate components addressing the subjects of reproductive health education, family life education, pregnancy prevention education, and sexually transmitted diseases and make the instructional unit available to local school districts. The board, through the department, also shall make available information about other programs developed by other states upon request of a local school district.
(B) In addition to the provisions of subsection (A), before September 1, 2015, the board, through the department, shall select or develop instructional units in sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention, with separate units appropriate for each age level from four-year-old kindergarten through twelfth grade.
(C) Before August 1, 2018, and through the cyclical review process, if deemed necessary, the board shall include instruction on prescription opioid abuse prevention, with an emphasis on the prescription drug epidemic and the connection between opioid abuse and addiction to other drugs, such as heroin, in the health standards. In addition, the board shall make available to districts a list of instructional materials that meet state standards. Districts shall continue to adopt or develop curriculum locally.
(D) At the next cyclical review of the health standards, the board shall continue to revise existing age-appropriate standards and concepts that address mental, emotional, and social health.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3; 2014 Act No. 293 (H.4061), Section 1, eff June 23, 2014; 2018 Act No. 185 (S.302), Section 3, eff May 17, 2018; 2020 Act No. 170 (H.3257), Section 1, eff September 29, 2020.
Effect of Amendment
2014 Act No. 293, Section 1, inserted subsection designator (A), and added subsection (B).
2018 Act No. 185, Section 3, added (C), relating to instruction on prescription opioid abuse prevention.
2020 Act No. 170, Section 1, added (D).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-40. Staff development.

As part of their program for staff development, the department and local school boards shall provide appropriate staff development activities for educational personnel participating in the comprehensive health education program. Local school boards are encouraged to coordinate the activities with the department and institutions of higher learning.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-50. Notice to parents; right to have child exempted from comprehensive health education program classes.

Pursuant to policies and guidelines adopted by the local school board, public school principals shall develop a method of notifying parents of students in the relevant grades of the content of the instructional materials concerning reproductive health, family life, pregnancy prevention, and of their option to exempt their child from this instruction, and sexually transmitted diseases if instruction in the diseases is presented as a separate component. Notice must be provided sufficiently in advance of a student's enrollment in courses using these instructional materials to allow parents and legal guardians the opportunity to preview the materials and exempt their children.
A public school principal, upon receipt of a statement signed by a student's parent or legal guardian stating that participation by the student in the health education program conflicts with the family's beliefs, shall exempt that student from any portion or all of the units on reproductive health, family life, and pregnancy prevention where any conflicts occur. No student must be penalized as a result of an exemption. School districts shall use procedures to ensure that students exempted from the program by their parents or guardians are not embarrassed by the exemption.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-80. Penalty for teachers violation of or refusal to comply with chapter.

Any teacher violating the provisions of this chapter or who refuses to comply with the curriculum prescribed by the school board as provided by this chapter is subject to dismissal.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 32 - Comprehensive Health Education Program › Section 59-32-90. Restrictions on use of films, pictures, or diagrams.

Films, pictures, or diagrams in any comprehensive health education program in public schools must be designed solely for the purpose of explaining bodily functions or the human reproduction process and may not include actual or simulated portrayals of sexual activities or sexual intercourse.
HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 437, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-10. Legislative findings; declaration of purpose.

The General Assembly finds that it is necessary and proper to provide an appropriate education for all handicapped children and youth enrolled in public schools or eligible for enrollment therein. It further finds that this purpose can best be accomplished through implementation of an intensive five-year plan to expand and improve existing programs for exceptional children in the public schools. The purpose of this article is to provide for the mandatory establishment of educational and training services and facilities for handicapped children in the public schools, between the ages designated in Section 59-63-20, who cannot be trained adequately without special educational facilities and services.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.10; 1972 (57) 2130.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-20. Definitions.

As used in this article:
(a) "Handicapped children" shall mean those who deviate from the normal either psychologically or physiologically to such an extent that special classes, special facilities, or special services are needed for their maximum development, including educable mentally handicapped, trainable mentally handicapped, emotionally handicapped, hearing handicapped, visually handicapped, orthopedically handicapped, speech handicapped, and those handicapped by learning disabilities as defined in item (1), Section 59-21-510.
(b) "Professional workers" shall mean personnel certified and approved by the Department of Education and shall include, but not be limited to, speech and hearing specialists, mobility instructors, special education interns, special education administrators, supervisors or coordinators devoting full time to special education, and teachers of any class or program defined in this article who meet the requirements of the article.
(c) "Special education services" shall mean, but not be limited to, special classes, special housing, homebound instruction, special rental facilities, braillists and typists for visually handicapped children, transportation, maintenance, instructional materials, therapy, professional consultant services, psychological services, itinerant services and resource services.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.12; 1972 (57) 2130.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-30. Specialized education program for handicapped children; rules and regulations.

The State Board of Education shall establish a program of specialized education for all handicapped children in this State utilizing the personnel and facilities of, and administered by, the State Department of Education under the direction of the State Superintendent of Education and shall further prescribe standards and approve the procedures under which the facilities are furnished and services provided. The Board shall establish screening, evaluating and placement procedures for handicapped students who will participate in the programs established under this article and shall determine certification requirements for teachers, minimum room size standards and standards for other equipment and materials used in such programs. To carry out the provisions of this article the Board may promulgate such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law as it shall deem necessary and proper.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.11; 1972 (57) 2130.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-40. Surveys and educational plans of school districts; annual reports

Each school district individually or in combination with other school districts shall conduct a survey of the educational needs of all handicapped children within its jurisdiction and, with the assistance of the State Department of Education, devise an educational plan for the children concerned. This plan shall provide instruction through the use of resource rooms, crisis teachers, itinerant teachers, diagnostic/prescriptive teachers, self-contained classes, or other models approved by the State Department of Education. The plan shall be presented to the Department for approval within one year after February 14, 1972. An annual report shall be made by each district to the Department to indicate the extent to which the plan has been implemented and to report additional planning.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.13; 1972 (57) 2130.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-50. District programs; contracts between districts; special arrangements for multiple-handicapped children.

The board of trustees of each school district shall, upon approval of its district's plan by the State Department of Education, establish and operate a program which will insure an appropriate education for each handicapped child resident within the district and shall maintain adequate records of the training and services provided and the children participating in the program. When a school district cannot satisfy the requirements of this section by providing for the education of its resident handicapped children because of insufficient numbers, the district may contract with other districts within the State or school systems or public or private institutions or agencies within or without the State which maintain approved special educational facilities; provided, that such institutions or agencies shall accept applicable children into the program regardless of color, race, sex, or religion. The sending district must document this lack of numbers and receive prior approval from the State Department of Education. The sending district may contract and pay the receiving district or institution the per capita cost of instruction, special equipment and special services not reimbursed to the receiving district by State, Federal and other moneys plus the cost of transportation and of maintenance if the nonresident children must reside away from their homes. The district which enters into such nonresident contract arrangements, which are approved by the State Department of Education, shall be reimbursed by the department for tuition, fees, transportation and books, not to exceed the per pupil cost of educating a handicapped child of identical age in the public schools. Special arrangements for multiple-handicapped children for whom special appropriations are provided because of the severity of their handicaps may be made with the Department.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.14; 1972 (57) 2130; 1973 (58) 1862.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 33 - Special Education For Handicapped Children › Section 59-33-60. Cooperation with other agencies; acceptance of donations.

District and State educational agencies are required to cooperate with other agencies within the State, both public and private, interested in working toward the education, training and alleviation of the handicaps of handicapped children, and all such agencies are authorized to accept gifts or donations from such private agencies.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-295.15; 1972 (57) 2130.