The State Board of Education Resolution Related to Parental Notification of
Conforming and Nonconforming Textbook Adoptions

 

 

May 3, 2000

 

 

TO THE ADMINISTRATOR ADDRESSED:

 

Subject: State Board of Education Resolution

 

At their May 2000 meeting, the State Board of Education passed a resolution recommending that school districts notify each student's parent or guardian of all textbooks selected from the Nonconforming list of state-adopted textbooks.  The resolution recommends that this notification be made in accordance with local policy and that it will take place upon adoption. A copy of the resolution is enclosed for your information .

 

If you have questions about the textbook adoption process, please contact Robert Leos in the textbook administration division. He can be reached by telephone at (512) 463-9603 by fax at (512) 463-8728 and by e-mail at rleos@tea.state.tx.us

 

Sincerely yours,

 

 

Jim Nelson

Commissioner of Education

 

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Enclosed:

 

RESOLUTION

 

 

WHEREAS the Texas State Board of Education adopts two lists of textbooks for each

subject and grade level: a conforming list and a nonconforming list; and

 

WHEREAS the conforming list includes textbooks containing material covering each element of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills; and

 

WHEREAS the nonconforming list includes textbooks containing material covering at least half, but not all, of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills; and

 

WHEREAS the board of trustees of each school district selects among the textbooks on the conforming and nonconforming list; and

 

WHEREAS the Texas State Board of Education supports the community's right to know which nonconforming state-adopted textbooks are selected by school districts; now, therefore, be it

 

RESOLVED, That the Texas State Board of Education recommends that school districts should, according to local policy, notify each student's parent or guardian of all textbooks selected from the nonconforming list of state-adopted textbooks upon adoption.

 

WITNESS our signatures the third day of March, two thousand, in Austin, Texas.

 

Chase Untermeyer, Chair

Rosie Collins Sorrells, Ed.D., Secretary