Availability of Sufficient Textbooks and Materials

Specific Requirements

For each pupil, including English learners, the availability of sufficient standards-aligned textbooks and other instructional materials, which have been adopted by the State Board of Education for kindergarten and grades one through eight and adopted by the governing boards of school districts for grades nine through twelve and which are consistent with the content and cycles of the curriculum frameworks adopted by the State Board of Education, in the core curriculum areas of reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and history-social science; foreign language and health; and science laboratory equipment for grades nine through twelve as appropriate.

Education Code Section 33126 (b)(6)(B)
Education Code Section 60119 (c)

Definitions

A description of the availability to each pupil, including English learners, of a standards-aligned (kindergarten and grades one through twelve) and state-adopted (kindergarten and grades one through eight) or locally-adopted (grades nine through twelve) textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home. Two sets of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil are not required. Photocopied sheets from only a portion of a textbook or instructional materials copied to address a shortage are not statutorily deemed to be sufficient.

For kindergarten and grades one through eight the description should also include any supplemental curriculum adopted by the local governing board.

This description should use the most recent available data collected by the district. The year and month in which the data were collected should also be identified.

Guidelines and Data Sources