Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 210 - State Department of Education › Chapter 10 - School Administration and Instructional Services › Subchapter 15 - Textbooks › Section 210:10-15-3 - Provisions for textbook selection and alternate textbook selection

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Subject area textbook review
				teams.
Pursuant to 70 O.S. § 16-102, each year the State Department
				of Education (OSDE) shall assemble one or more teams of subject matter experts
				to assist the State Textbook Committee in reviewing textbooks and instructional
				materials for the subject areas under review. The subject area review team(s)
				assembled for each year will correspond with the subject area(s) under review
				that year in the state Textbook Adoption Cycle, with the number of review teams
				formed each year contingent on the number of subjects under review. Composition
				of the subject area review teams shall be consistent with the requirements of
				70 O.S. § 16-102(E), and each team shall be selected according to the
				application process and criteria for the relevant subject area established by
				the OSDE in coordination with the State Textbook Committee. Subject to the
				availability of funds appropriated to the OSDE, members of subject area review
				teams shall be eligible for necessary travel expenses while in the performance
				of their duties, pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act.
(b)
Rubric for the review of
				instructional materials.
In reviewing proposed textbooks and other
				instructional materials, subject area review teams shall apply the appropriate
				three-tiered rubric developed by the State Textbook Committee in consultation
				with the OSDE pursuant to 70 O.S. § 16-102(F).
(c)
Recommendations and records.
After completing its review of a textbook or other instructional material under
				the applicable rubric, and individually scoring each criterion including
				justification for the rating assigned, each subject area review team shall
				submit the team's review documentation and recommended rating to the State
				Textbook Committee. The Committee shall consider, but is not required to
				accept, the recommended rating of the subject area review team, and may request
				that the review team provides additional information to support its
				recommendations. After the Committee has verified that the review process has
				been conducted in a fair and scrupulous manner, the Committee shall adopt a
				final rating for each textbook prior to including it on the list of approved
				textbooks. The completed rubric for each evaluated textbook, including the
				subject area review team's recommendations, shall be publicly posted on the
				State Textbook Committee web page housed on the OSDE website.
(d)
State Board of Education alternate
				textbook petition.
Five or more district boards of education may
				petition the State Board of Education to add a book or series of textbooks to
				the approved list selected by the State Textbook Committee
. Guidance
				for school districts to petition the State Board for approval of alternate
				instructional materials may be obtained from the OSDE Office of Accreditation
				or the agency website.
(1)
Adding
				petitioned materials to the list of approved textbooks.
Upon receipt of
				textbook petition forms for a book, or a series of textbooks, or other
				applicable instructional materials from five or more district boards of
				education and upon approval of said petitions by the State Board of Education,
				the materials approved shall be added to the list selected by the State
				Textbook Committee and maintained pursuant to 70 O.S. § 16-110. The
				publisher of materials added to the list through this petition process shall
				enter into a contract in accordance with 70 O.S. § 16-106 and with the
				same provisions agreed upon by all other publishers.
(2)
Use of state textbook funds for
				petitioned textbooks.
Upon approval of petitioned materials by the State
				Board of Education and addition of such materials to the list of approved
				textbooks, any Oklahoma school district may purchase the materials approved by
				petition with state textbook funds.
(3)
Conditions for alternate textbook
				petitions.
The following conditions apply to petitions for alternate
				instructional material selections.
(A) The
				State Board of Education will not consider petitions during the process of
				deliberation by the State Textbook Committee from the time bids are submitted
				in the given subject area up for state adoption until the time the final
				selections for adoption by the State Textbook Committee are announced.
(B) Any publisher whose textbooks
				are added to the approved list selected by the State Textbook Committee through
				petitioning the State Board of Education shall establish and maintain a
				suitable and convenient depository or depositories in the state of Oklahoma
				where a stock of their books, or other approved instructional media, to supply
				all immediate demands shall be kept. For any instructional materials that do
				not exist in a hard copy form, such as materials accessed solely by means of
				the internet or through digital storage, the publisher shall provide the State
				Textbook Committee with copies of the approved materials in one or more
				appropriate digital storage formats.