(1) Instructional materials or programs for reading and writing, mathematics, science, and social studies shall not be used in any public school in Kentucky as a core comprehensive resource unless they have been recommended and listed on the state-approved list by the State Quality Curriculum Task Force, or unless a school and district has met the notification requirements under subsection (2) of this section. Any changes of instructional materials made by the task force shall not become effective until grades and classes of school districts have completed work for which the adopted materials then in use were originally intended. This section shall not apply to the supplementary materials that are needed from time to time.
(2) The superintendent of a school district shall submit a notification to the department if the school district plans to adopt instructional materials or a program as a core comprehensive resource for reading and writing, mathematics, science, or social studies that is not on the state-approved list by submitting evidence that the instructional materials or program it has chosen meets the selection criteria of the task force in KRS 156.405(3)(a) or (b) and the subject specific criteria of the textbook reviewers pursuant to KRS 156.407(4) and complies with the required specifications.
(3) In approving text materials for private and parochial schools for the purpose of KRS 156.160(2) the text materials shall be approved if they are comprehensive and appropriate to the grade level in question notwithstanding the fact that they may contain elements of religious philosophy.