New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter I - Rules of the Board Of Regents › Part 21 - Textbooks › Section 21.2 - Lending procedures

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				Resident pupils, except those enrolled in residential schools located outside
				the State of New York, in grades kindergarten through 12, may borrow textbooks,
				including courseware or other content-based instructional materials in
				electronic format, that are designated for use in any public elementary or
				secondary school in the State or approved by any school board, provided that
				for the purposes of this section and section 701  of the Education Law, courseware or
				other content-based instructional materials in electronic format shall mean any
				instructional medium that provides specific nonsectarian educational content to
				students via a computer or other electronic system, and provided further that
				such textbooks, courseware, or other content-based instructional materials in
				electronic format must be required in a particular class or program as a
				primary source of study material intended to implement a major part of a State
				curriculum or State-approved local curriculum. The following materials shall
				not be considered to constitute textbooks for the purposes of this section:
(1) encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, and
				general and special purpose dictionaries, except that dictionaries individually
				assigned to all students in a particular class or program as a textbook
				substitute shall be considered to constitute textbooks;
(2) supplementary textbooks, novels and other
				fiction, magazines, newspapers and audio- visual materials normally housed in
				the school library or instructional materials center for short-term use by
				students, except that a newspaper or news magazine shall be considered to
				constitute a textbook for the purposes of this section where the newspaper or
				news magazine is a paper or magazine of general circulation which is printed
				and distributed ordinarily not less frequently than biweekly, and has been so
				for at least one year, and which contains news, articles of opinion, features
				and other matter regarded as of current interest, has a paid circulation within
				the school district which proposes to purchase copies pursuant to this section,
				has been entered with the United States Postal Service as second-class matter,
				is made available to schools on the date of publication of each edition at a
				discount of not less than 331/3 percent from the regular price, and whose
				publisher regularly supplies study guides without charge to assist teachers in
				developing lessons based upon the newspaper;
(3) tests and testing materials, teacher's
				editions of textbooks, review books, and materials in kit form;
(4) sectarian publications and denominational
				editions which contain the approval of a religious authority;
(5) computer software that is generic in
				function, including, but not limited to, word- processing software, database
				software, and internet and network access software; and
(6) computer hardware including, but not
				limited to, mini-computers; microcomputers; peripheral devices, such as
				printers, video display plotters and desk storage units; telecommunications
				hardware; modems; special hardware boards; cables; and audio, video,
				touch-sensitive and other electronic to human machine interface
				hardware.