The Board shall adopt regulations governing (i) the purchase of textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials approved by it for use in the public schools directly from the publishers by school boards and (ii) the distribution of such textbooks and other high-quality instructional materials for the use by children attending public schools in the Commonwealth.

Code 1950, § 22-304; 1980, c. 559; 2008, cc. 430, 615, 663; 2025, cc. 680, 683.