| Textbook Adoption
Policies and Procedures |
Responsibility
- The Board shall adopt a policy for selecting instructional
materials. Final selections must be recorded in Board minutes.
No later than April 1 of each year, the District shall transmit
a report to TEA listing the instructional materials used
in the District. Selections certified to TEA shall be final
and, therefore, shall not be subject to reconsideration
during the original contract period or re-adoption contract
periods covering the instructional materials selected. 19
TAC 66.104(a), (g), (h) [See also CMD for provisions regarding
inventory and requisition of textbooks]
- Selection and use of ancillary materials is at the discretion
of the Board. 19 TAC 66.104(p)
- At an appropriate time following adoption of instructional
materials by the State Board, the Superintendent shall make
recommendations to the Board for appointment of a local
textbook adoption committee. EFAA (LOCAL)
- The Superintendent or designee shall be responsible for
coordinating the time frame for meetings of the committee
and meetings of the Board to assure compliance with the
April 1 reporting date. (EFAA Local)
- The Superintendent or designee shall be a member and serve
as chair of the committee. (EFAA Local)
- The Superintendent has designated the Textbook Coordinator
as the coordinator of all actions necessary to assure that
campuses and departments adhere to the established textbook
adoption guidelines.
- The Commissioner shall implement a program designed to allow a participating District to receive credit for textbooks purchased at a cost below the cost limit established under Section 31.025(a). The credit is an amount equal to the difference between the price paid for a textbook and the cost limit for that textbook multiplied by the number of copies purchased. Fifty percent of the total credit shall be credited to the state textbook fund and 50 percent to the District to apply toward the requisition of additional textbooks or electronic textbooks on the conforming or nonconforming list. Education Code 31.1011
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