SB217 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tim Melson Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

State Textbook Committee, publishers permitted to provide standards correlation evidence to State Dept. of Education, State Superintendent of Education to convene other instructional materials review committees to review and rate materials and to establish evaluation criteria, Secs. 16-36-60, 16-36-60.1, 16-36-65 am'd.

Description

Existing law provides for a State Textbook Committee process to consider the merit of textbooks offered for use in the public elementary and high schools of the state and make recommendations for approval or rejection to the State Board of Education.

This bill would provide for publishers to provide evidence of standards correlation on forms provided by the State Department of Education.

This bill would authorize the State Superintendent of Education to convene other instructional materials review committees to review and rate varying instructional materials.

This bill would also authorize the State Superintendent of Education to establish evaluation criteria to be used by other instructional materials review committees.

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Subjects

State Textbook Committee