La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XCIII-725

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XCIII-725 - Provisions Relative to Superior Textbooks, Library Books, Equipment, and Other Instructional Materials

A. Projects which anticipate across-the-board increases in the per-student allocation for textbooks, library books, and other instructional materials for a single elementary/secondary school or school system are not eligible for funding in this category, since such allocations will be addressed by the board on a statewide basis. In the annual establishment of priorities for the expenditure of support fund monies, the board may allocate support funds for an across-the-board increase in the per-student allocation for textbooks, library books, and other instructional materials.

B. The following types of projects are eligible for support funds in this category:

1. textbooks:

a. projects which provide for the purchase of textbooks for a specific instructional program which is not offered to an entire student body, such as textbooks for advanced study in any scientific or mathematics field, or other programs of a similar nature at any grade level;

b. projects which will provide necessary textbooks for advanced Placement programs in any secondary school;

c. Projects which provide for the purchase of textbooks suitable to a program of independent study for an academically gifted student at any grade level, provided that evidence must be provided in the proposal of the academic standing of any student engaged in independent study for whom special materials will be acquired with support funds;

d. Projects which provide for the purchase of textbooks not included on the Textbook Adoption List, such as textbooks which are appropriate for handicapped students, provided that such textbooks must be listed in the proposal.

2. Library Books

a. Projects which provide for the purchase of current encyclopedias, world atlases, etc. where no similar resource materials are available within a given school;

b. Projects which will permit the acquisition of appropriate library resource materials to be used in any specific instructional program, such as texts in a foreign language offered in the school which will acquire the additional library volumes, additional volumes in a specific field of science or mathematics, and so forth;

3. Equipment

a. Projects which provide for the purchase of instructional equipment, provided that only equipment which is used for the direct instruction of students on a daily basis is eligible for support funds in this category.

b. Equipment purchased with 8(g) funds should remain with the program as long as it is operating (with either 8(g) or other funding source). If the equipment is more than four years old, is non-operational, or is obsolete, the equipment may be surplused or disposed of following the appropriate agency and State regulations and its disposition reported to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education office.

c. When a program terminates, the equipment should be moved to another 8(g) program, and the disposition should be reported to the board.

4. Other Instructional Materials:

a. projects which provide for the purchase of instructional software programs marketed by commercial firms to be used in existing computer equipment;

b. projects which provide for the purchase of art or music supplies, such as oil paints, paint brushes, sheet music, records, etc.;

c. projects which provide for the purchase of instructional supplies such as saws, hammers, nails, etc., to be used in vocational training;

d. projects which provide for the purchase of foodstuffs to be used in family and consumer science instructional programs funded with 8(g) monies;

e. projects which provide for the purchase of instructional films and slides; and

f. projects which provide for the purchase of other recognized instructional materials which are not available under the annual per-student allocations for materials of instruction, provided that such other instructional materials must be fully described in the project.

C. The project must include the number and grade levels of students who will have access to the items purchased.

D. The project must contain the school site where items purchased will be housed.

E. The project must include the name and title of the school employee responsible for proper usage of the items purchased.

F. Whenever the purchases are for the use of a specific population within a school, such as advanced placement students, the project must name the specific population and must illustrate the reasons for selecting the specific population to receive support fund monies.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XCIII-725

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in LR 38:3146 (December 2012).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10)