North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 16 - EDUCATION › Chapter 06 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Subchapter D - INSTRUCTION › Section .0200 - TEXTBOOKS › Section 06D .0206 - REGIONAL TEXTBOOK EVALUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEES

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The
				  Textbook Commission shall appoint Regional Textbook Evaluation Advisory
				  Committees for each of the state's educational districts defined in
				  G.S.
				  115C-65. Members shall serve a one-year term
				  that begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 of each year. The Textbook
				  Commission shall fill any vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.
				  Members shall serve at the pleasure of the Textbook Commission.
(b) All persons appointed to these committees
				  by the Textbook Commission shall be qualified by training and experience to
				  evaluate textbooks for use in the public schools. In appointing these
				  committees, the Textbook Commission shall consider the textbooks scheduled for
				  adoption during that year, and shall ensure appointment of specialists in the
				  content and grade levels of the areas for which textbooks are to be
				  adopted.
(c) The Committees, using
				  the evaluation forms developed by the Curriculum Review Committee and their
				  training and experience, assists the Textbook Commission in the evaluation of
				  textbooks presented for adoption. Before beginning to evaluate textbooks, each
				  member of the regional committee shall participate in a comprehensive
				  orientation and training session approved by the Superintendent of Public
				  Instruction and the chairman of the Textbook Commission and presented under the
				  direction of the Superintendent.
(d) Each regional committee, under the
				  direction of a member of the Textbook Commission assigned by the Chairman of
				  the Textbook Commission, shall meet and evaluate the textbooks presented for
				  adoption. Following these regional meetings, the Chairman of the Textbook
				  Commission will assign members of the regional committees to subject area
				  committees. These committees, using the criteria and forms developed by the
				  Curriculum Review Committee and approved by the SBE, shall meet, discuss and
				  formalize their recommendations to the Textbook Commission.
(e) The Superintendent will assign to members
				  of the Department the responsibility of assisting the regional committees in
				  the performance of their duties.
(f) Members of the regional committees shall
				  perform all of their prescribed duties between June 15 and August 1 of each
				  year at times and places designated by the Chairman of the Textbook Commission.
				  Members of the committees who are not under contract with a local school
				  administrative unit for the period between June 15 and August 1 shall receive a
				  salary of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day for not more than ten days,
				  plus reimbursement for travel and subsistence expenses as allowed for state
				  employees. Committee members who are under contract with a local school
				  administrative unit between June 15 and August 1, are employed by the
				  Department of Public Instruction, or are employed by another state agency, will
				  receive their regular salaries and will be reimbursed for travel and
				  subsistence expenses only.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 115C-89;
Eff. March 1,
					 1990.