EdLaw
Poland — Ustawa o systemie oświaty (art. 22ao)
The Act of 7 September 1991 on the education system retains, after the 2017 Prawo oświatowe split, the assessment/examination system and the textbook-admission regime. Curated here is art. 22ao — the conditions under which a podręcznik (including an electronic one) may be admitted for school use.
Fact text is Polish (authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- Electronic textbooks are a first-class form: a podręcznik may be paper or electronic (art. 22ao ust. 1).
- Accessibility is an admission condition for digital form: an electronic textbook must be built so that solutions enabling reading by pupils with different disabilities can be applied (ust. 3 pkt 6); a paper textbook must additionally have a digital counterpart on a data carrier or online (pkt 6a).
- No advertising content in admitted textbooks (pkt 5), and no cross-selling hooks requiring the publisher's own supplementary materials (pkt 4 lit. b).
- Anti-teaching-to-the-test clause (2025 amendment): textbooks for classes IV–VIII and secondary schools must present the curriculum and must not be built repetitively around exam-task drilling (pkt 2).
- Ordinance layer: detailed conditions under art. 22aw (pkt 7).
Note: this admission regime applies to podręczniki (curricular textbooks admitted by the minister), not to supplementary digital learning resources generally — an EdTech content library outside the podręcznik system is not subject to art. 22ao, but the clauses signal what the ministry treats as disqualifying (ads, exam drilling, inaccessibility).
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| PODRECZNIKI.md | Ustawa o systemie oświaty art. 22ao — postać podręcznika i warunki dopuszczenia |
Scope note: the former art. 44zzra (OKE electronic exam-support system) is repealed in the current consolidation; the examination chapters and the SIO act are separate layers — add them when a Poland question needs that level.
Enforcement
Admission to school use is decided by the minister właściwy do spraw oświaty i wychowania; reviewers (rzeczoznawcy) assess conformity.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected articles of the ustawa o systemie oświaty from the tekst jednolity in Dziennik Ustaw, served by the Sejm ELI API.
Polish copyright law places normative acts and official materials outside copyright. Art. 4 ustawy o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych (ISAP — tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2025 poz. 24, read 2026-10-01 in the official PDF served by the Sejm ELI API) provides: "Nie stanowią przedmiotu prawa autorskiego: 1) akty normatywne lub ich urzędowe projekty; 2) urzędowe dokumenty, materiały, znaki i symbole;"
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (ISAP and the Sejm ELI API). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- Prawo oświatowe — the framework act (state platform, CCTV, remote learning)
- UODO — data-protection frame