Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
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.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
17:6(A)(10)
