22.1-17.5 - Public notice and comment regarding certain resource guides.
§ 22.1-17.5. Public notice and comment regarding certain resource guides.
In order to provide appropriate opportunity for input from the generalpublic, parents, teachers, and local school boards, the Board of Educationshall solicit public comment prior to revising or adopting Standards ofLearning resource guides and lists of recommended textbooks in any Standardsof Learning academic subject. Thirty days prior to soliciting public comment,the Board shall publish notice of its intended action. Interested partiesshall be given reasonable opportunity to be heard and present informationprior to final action of the Board.
The Board shall make such resource guides available for public inspection atleast thirty days prior to final adoption or revision, as the case may be.
(2001, c. 869.)