Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 41, Pages 4291-4362, June 3, 1994 Page: 4,316
This periodical is part of the collection entitled: Texas Register and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
of Texas must use instructional materials
adopted by the State Board of Education
(SBOE) as required of district boards of
trustees by law. With the approval of the
district board of trustees, a school district
may procure and use unadopted instruc-
tional materials under the following condi-
tions:
(1) there are no adopted instruc-
tional materials in an approved subject or
course;
(2) field testing on a classroom
basis is being conducted by the district in
cooperation with a publisher or an educa-
tional institution or association;
(3) the adopted instructional ma-
terials are not appropriate to be used by
pupils with special needs;
(4) the method of instruction
does not involve the use of adopted instruc-
tional materials; or
(5) a waiver allowing use of
unadopted instructional materials has been
granted by the commissioner of education.
67.104. Sample Copies of Instructional
Materials for School Districts.
(a) Each publisher shall provide ev-
ery school district textbook coordinator one
complete official sample of adopted instruc-
tional materials. Official samples of instruc-
tional materials submitted for consideration
shall not be provided to school districts
before the State Board of Education
(SBOE) adopts the materials.
(b) Publishers may provide addi-
tional samples to the person or persons des-
ignated by the district. At the discretion of
the publisher, such additional samples re-
quested by school districts may be demon-
stration or representative samples, provided
that identical samples are provided to each
school district making such a request.
(c) All samples of instructional ma-
terials provided to school districts shall be
labeled, "Sample Copy-Not for Classroom
Use."
(d) Samples supplied to school dis-
tricts shall be provided and distributed at
the expense of the publisher. No state or
local funds shall be expended to purchase,
distribute, or ship sample materials. The
state does not guarantee return of sample
instructional materials.
67.107. Adoption of Instructional Materi-
als by School Districts.
(a) The jurisdiction for each inde-
pendent school district rests with the board
of trustees and the superintendent of schools
of the district.(b) After the State Board of Educa-
tion (SBOE) adopts instructional materials,
each district board of trustees shall appoint
a local adoption committee composed of not
fewer than five or more than 15 members.
The official minutes of each board meeting
at which the board appoints a local adoption
committee must include a record of the
names of persons appointed to serve on the
committee.
(c) The board of trustees with the
recommendation of the superintendent of
schools shall make appointments to a local
adoption committee. If the board of trustees
rejects any recommendation, the superinten-
dent shall present another recommendation
in place of the one rejected.
(d) Each member of a local adop-
tion committee must be a professional em-
ployee of the school district. The majority
of the committee members must be class-
room teachers. The superintendent of
schools or the superintendent's designee
shall serve as chair of the local adoption
committee.
(e) The local adoption committee
shall examine all instructional materials on
the multiple lists adopted by the State Board
of Education (SBOE), to select instructional
materials from the lists for use in the school
district, and to recommend its selections to
the board of trustees for ratification.
(f) Each local adoption committee
shall make its selections at a meeting of the
committee held before the March meeting
of the district board of trustees. If selections
recommended by the committee are not rati-
fied by the board of trustees, the committee
shall make other selections at a meeting
held as soon as possible following the meet-
ing of the board of trustees at which any of
the committee's selections were not ratified.
A quorum of a local selection committee,
consisting of at least a majority of the com-
mittee members, shall be present at any
meeting at which selections are to be made.
(g) If the board of trustees, by ma-
jority vote, fails to ratify any of the selec-
tions made by the local adoption committee,
the reasons must be placed in the official
board minutes, and the board of trustees
shall direct the local selection committee to
recommend another selection or selections
from the multiple lists and to report its
selection to the board for ratification. This
procedure shall continue until the board of
trustees ratifies all selections of the local
adoption committee. Final selections must
be recorded in the minutes of the board of
trustees.
(h) After ratification by the board
of trustees, one copy of the local adoption
committee's report, signed by the members
of the committee who participated in the
selection, the president of the board of trust-
ees, and the secretary of the board, shall besent by the superintendent to the Central
Education Agency no later than April 1.
(i) Only instructional material rec-
ommended by the local adoption committee
and ratified by the board of trustees shall be
furnished by the state for use in any school.
Selections certified to the Central Education
Agency shall be final and, therefore, shall
not be subject to reconsideration during the
original contract period or readoption con-
tract periods covering the instructional ma-
terials selected.
(j) Except as otherwise provided by
statute, requisitions submitted before the
first day of school shall be approved based
on the maximum number of students en-
rolled in the district during the previous
school year and/or registered to attend the
district during the next school year. Requi-
sitions submitted after the first day of
school shall be approved based on the ac-
tual number of students enrolled in the dis-
trict when the requisition is submitted. If
two or more titles are selected from a multi-
ple list, requisitions may be made for a
combined total of the selected titles.
(k) Instructional materials
requisitioned by and delivered to a school
district shall be continued in use during the
contract period or periods of the materials.
A school district may not return copies of
one title to secure copies of another title on
the same multiple list.
(1) High school instructional materi-
als may be distributed to middle school or
junior high school pupils enrolled in high
school classes.
(m) If a selection was not made
from a multiple list in a prior adoption, the
current local adoption committee may select
such instructional materials if the subjects
are to be taught in the school during the
ensuing term.
(n) Adopted instructional materials
shall be supplied to a pupil in special educa-
tion classes as appropriate to the level of the
pupil's ability and without regard to the
grade for which the instructional material is
adopted or the grade in which the pupil is
enrolled.
(o) School districts shall not be re-
imbursed from state funds for expenses in-
curred in local handling of textbooks.
67.110. Local Accountability. Each
school district shall conduct an annual phys-
ical inventory of all currently adopted in-
structional materials that have been
requisitioned by and delivered to the dis-
trict. The results of the inventory shall be
recorded in the district's files. Reimburse-
ment shall be made for all instructional
materials determined to be lost during the
physical inventory.19 TexReg 4316 June 3, 1994 Texas Register *
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Periodical.
Texas. Secretary of State. Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 41, Pages 4291-4362, June 3, 1994, periodical, June 3, 1994; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth176894/m1/26/?q=%221994-06%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.