December 6, 2024 Committee on Instruction
FRIDAY
December 6, 2024
9:00 a.m.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION – Room 2.029 (Barbara Jordan Building)
Members: Audrey Young, chair; Evelyn Brooks, vice chair; Pam Little; Melissa Ortega; and Leslie Recine. A quorum of the State Board of Education may attend the committee meeting and discuss items on the committee agenda.
Public testimony – Individual testimony will be taken at the time the related item comes up for committee discussion or action. The procedures for public testimony at State Board of Education committee meetings and general board meetings are provided in SBOE Operating Rules.
The agency issued the Request for Instructional Materials (RFIM) in February 2024, calling for instructional materials for full-subject, tier-one instructional materials for K–5 English and Spanish language arts and reading and K–12 mathematics and partial-subject, tier-one instructional materials for K–3 English and Spanish phonics. All materials submitted in response to RFIM 2024 were reviewed for standards alignment, factual errors, quality and suitability in summer 2024. The State Board of Education (SBOE) added materials to their lists of approved and rejected materials at their November 2024 general meeting. Some materials were placed on the approved list contingent upon review and approval by the Committee on Instruction before December 31, 2024. This item provides the opportunity for the Committee on Instruction, as the committee delegated by the SBOE, to verify reported compliance with 19 TAC §74.2001(b)(1)(B)–(G). Statutory authority is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.022, and §31.023, as amended by HB 1605, 88th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2023.
COMMITTEE – ACTION