19 Tex. Admin. Code § 67.43 - Lists of Approved and Rejected Instructional Materials
(a) The list of approved instructional
materials shall be maintained by the State Board of Education (SBOE).
(b) The SBOE may remove instructional
materials from the list of approved instructional materials if:
(1) the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
(TEKS), Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (TPG), or applicable English Language
Proficiency Standards (ELPS) intended to be covered by the material are revised
or a publisher revises the material without the approval of the SBOE in
accordance with Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.022(c);
(2) the instructional materials, through a
finding of the SBOE, are not compliant with the parent portal standards in §
67.83 of this title (relating to
Publisher Parent Portal); or
(3)
the instructional materials violate any provisions of TEC, Chapter
31.
(c) A publisher of
the specific instructional material shall be provided a minimum of 30 days'
notice of the proposed removal. A representative of the publisher of the
specific instructional material shall be given the opportunity to address the
SBOE at the meeting where the SBOE is considering removing that publisher's
product from the list of approved materials.
(d) If instructional materials are removed
from the list of approved instructional materials, school districts and
open-enrollment charter schools may not apply the entitlements outlined in TEC,
§
48.307 or §
48.308, to future
purchases or subscriptions of the removed instructional materials.
(e) A school district or an open-enrollment
charter school that selects subscription-based instructional materials from the
list of approved instructional materials approved under TEC, §
31.022 and §
31.023, may cancel the
subscription and subscribe to a new instructional material on the list of
approved instructional materials before the end of the state contract period
under TEC, §
31.026, if:
(1) the district or charter school has used
the instructional material for at least one school year and the Texas Education
Agency (TEA) approves the change based on a written request to TEA by the
district or charter school that specifies the reasons for changing the
instructional material used by the district or charter school; or
(2) the SBOE removes the instructional
material to which the district or charter school is subscribed from the list of
approved instructional materials.
(f) The SBOE shall maintain the list of
rejected instructional materials.
(g) Instructional materials shall be removed
from the list of rejected instructional materials if a publisher submits a
revised set of instructional materials for review through the process required
by TEC, §
31.022 and §
31.023, and the SBOE
places the revised instructional materials on the list of approved
instructional materials.
(h) The
SBOE may remove instructional materials from the list of rejected instructional
materials if a publisher submits a revised set of instructional materials for
review through the process required by TEC, §
31.023 and §
31.022, and the SBOE
takes no action before the end of the calendar year.
(i) This section applies to instructional
materials approved by the SBOE after January 1, 2024.
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