At the end of school, students return textbooks to subject teacher. Students who have lost textbooks should be reported to the school's textbook office. Conduct search of lockers for lost and misplaced textbooks. Order textbooks for the following year. Once textbooks are delivered to the school site, textbook distribution and management is delegated to school principals through the district's site-based management philosophy.
Principals use a variety of book management strategies to avoid textbook losses.
Some schools issue a take-home set of textbooks for students and maintain a class set for students to use while in school. Other schools allow students to check out books overnight. Many schools supplement homework assignments by using take-home duplicated worksheets. Teachers in TSPR focus groups report that it is difficult to find effective homework assignment sheets that correlate with the TEKS, and would prefer to assign homework from course textbooks. They feel that students are not receiving homework assignments that will be most beneficial in supplementing in-class instruction.