September 2016 Committee of the Full Board Public Hearing Tuesday

TUESDAY
September 13, 2016

11 a.m.

COMMITTEE OF THE FULL BOARD - Room 1-104

Public Testimony - Individual testimony will be taken at the time the related item comes up for committee discussion or action. The procedures for registering and taking public testimony at State Board of Education committee meetings and general board meetings are provided online. 

1. Public Hearing Regarding Instructional Materials Submitted for Adoption by the State Board of Education Under Proclamation 2017 

A public hearing before the State Board of Education (SBOE) is scheduled for September 13, 2016 in the William B. Travis Building, Room 1-104. Testimony will be presented regarding instructional materials submitted for adoption under Proclamation 2017. This proclamation called for instructional materials for all courses in career and technical education and languages other than English. It also called for materials for Special Topics in Social Studies, Algebraic Reasoning, and Statistics. These instructional materials were reviewed by the state review panels in the summer of 2016. Due to the anticipated volume of testimony during the public hearing, oral testimony will be limited to two minutes per person. Statutory authority is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §7.110 and §31.024.

COMMITTEE - DISCUSSION
SBOE - NO ACTION