Senate Agrees with House on Textbook Legislation

Legislature passes Instruction Material Legislation – Retaining the State Adoption Process

Today the Senate passed the House version of the Instructional materials legislation – the version of the bill retains the State Instructional material Adoption Process making a list of materials that have been reviewed at the State Level available for consideration at the local level.

I feel it is important for us to thank both our local legislators Senator Charles Dean and Representative Jimmie T. Smith for their support of retaining the State Adoption Process which will continue to save districts cost and resources and is the best decision for students and schools. Our Senator Dean appropriately voted against the Senate’s version of the Instruction Material Legislation (SB 864) and then only voted for it once the bill was revised to match the House’s version (HB 921). Rep. Smith supported the House bill which was what school district and educators were asking for.

I further want to thank those of you that took the time to contacted our Legislators and asked for their intervention and votes.

Next the bill will be sent tot eh Governor for his approval.

So what does this all mean? It means that largely nothing changes for school districts that want to adopt textbooks through the State Adoption Process. If school districts want to adopt a textbook not on the state’s approved list of materials then there is a defined process which includes public input. Further and perhaps the biggest change is that it moves up the digital adoption requirement by a year from 2015-2016 to 2014-2015. This means that the Citrus School Districts’ one to one individual digital device innovative (known often as the iPads) is and has been more appropriate and necessary then ever.

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