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EASTON AREA
SCHOOL DISTRICT
No. 108
SECTION:
PROGRAMS
TITLE:
ADOPTION OF TEXTBOOKS
ADOPTED:
May 17, 2007
REVISED:
108. ADOPTION OF TEXTBOOKS
1.
Authority
SC 508, 801, 803
It is the responsibility of the Board to adopt all textbooks used for instruction in the
educational program of this district.
2.
Definition
For purposes of this policy, textbooks shall be defined as books used as the basic
source of information in class.
3.
Delegation of
Responsibility
The responsibility for the selection of textbooks shall be delegated to designated
district staff, including administrators, teachers, librarians/media professionals,
directors, and coordinators. Textbooks which implement, enrich and support the
educational programs of the district shall be selected and the designated district staff
shall provide a wide range of materials on all levels of difficulty with diversity of
appeal and the representation of different points of view.
SC 803
The Superintendent shall be responsible for the selection and recommendation of
textbooks for Board consideration. No adoption or change of textbooks shall be
made without the Superintendent's recommendation, except by a two-thirds vote of
the Board.
The Superintendent or designee shall develop and implement a plan for the selection
of textbooks.
4.
Guidelines
Guidelines for selecting textbooks may include the following:
1.
The staff shall continually research new sources of textbooks.
2.
Textbooks currently in use shall be periodically evaluated for their continuing
usefulness and relevance.
Textbooks shall be considered for purchase on the basis of their overall purpose,
timeliness or permanence, importance of subject matter, content, quality of writing,
production, popular appeal, and reviews and previews by professional agencies. No
one source of review/preview will be relied upon exclusively.
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Textbooks representing all points of view concerning controversies, problems, and
issues of the times, international, national and local, may be selected for the purpose
of providing information from which readers, viewers, and listeners may form
judgments.
Efforts will be made to evaluate thoroughly any material which is manifestly
unimportant, cheap and trivial, deliberately distorted, or sensationalistic, particularly
in the areas of religion, race relations, political ideologies, and fiction.
Pol. 105.1
A list of all approved textbooks shall be prepared and maintained. It shall be
reviewed periodically by the Superintendent or designee and made available for the
information of the professional staff, Board members, students, parents/guardians,
and community.
Public Request For Re-Evaluation
A request for re-evaluation of specific textbooks in a school will be considered upon
a written request, which shall be submitted to the building principal on the required
form.
The building principal will inform the Superintendent or designee of the request. The
Superintendent or designee will appoint a committee to re-evaluate the specific
material, and the committee shall decide whether the material shall be removed from
the school until re-evaluation is completed. The committee shall read, view, or listen
to the material in question, check professional reviews, base a judgment of the
material on the whole and not on passages taken out of context, and submit a report
to the office of the Superintendent and the parties concerned. The final decision
regarding the re-evaluation report will be made by the Board.
School Code
508, 801,
803
Board Policy
105.1