January 2025 Committee on Instruction Item 7
Approval of Updates and Substitutions to Adopted Instructional Materials
January 31, 2025
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION: ACTION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION: CONSENT
SUMMARY: This item provides the opportunity for the committee and board to approve update and/or substitution requests received since the last board meeting. The updated content has been reviewed by subject-area specialists and determined to address the pertinent student expectations in a manner equal to the content initially reviewed and approved by the state review panel.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.003 and §31.022.
TEC, §31.003, permits the State Board of Education (SBOE) to adopt rules for the adoption, requisition, distribution, care, use, and disposal of instructional materials.
TEC, §31.022(b), requires the SBOE to adopt rules to provide for a full and complete investigation of instructional materials for each subject in the foundation curriculum and for each subject in the enrichment curriculum.
The full text of statutory citations can be found in the statutory authority section of this agenda.
PREVIOUS BOARD ACTION: In 2015 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for three products. In 2016 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for two products. In 2019 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for seven products. In 2020 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for twenty-one products. In 2021 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for sixteen products. In 2022 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for twenty-five products. In 2023 the SBOE approved update and/or substitution requests for ten products. In February 2024, the SBOE approved update requests to update Science, grade 6 from Savvas Learning Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Depository, McGraw-Hill School, and Summit K12 Holdings, Inc. In April 2024, the SBOE approved a request from Ramsey Education (Dave Ramsey/Lampo), to update their Personal Financial Literacy instructional materials adopted under Proclamation 2024. In June 2024, the SBOE approved an update request to update Social Studies, grade 6 from Cengage Learning to update their instructional materials adopted under Proclamation 2024. In September 2024, the SBOE postponed action until November 2024 on requests from FrogStreet to update their English and Spanish prekindergarten materials, and McGraw-Hill to update their Texas World Cultures and Geography, Texas History, Texas United States History to 1877, Texas Economics, Texas United States Government, Texas United States History Since 1877, Texas World Geography, and Texas World History materials. In November 2024 the SBOE approved requests from Ellipsis Education to update content in its Technology Applications, Grade 3, from McGraw-Hill to update content in its Texas World Cultures and Geography, Texas History, Texas United States History to 1877, Texas Economics, Texas United States Government, Texas United States History Since 1877, Texas World Geography, and Texas World History, and approve updated TEKS percentages in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Social Studies, grades 6–8, Texas World Geography Studies, United States History Studies Since 1877, World History Studies, and Economics with Emphasis on the Free Enterprise System and Its Benefits.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION: Rules in 19 TAC §66.75 permit a publisher to submit a request for approval to update content in state-adopted instructional materials. The rule also requires that all requests for updates involving content in state-adopted instructional materials be posted for public comment and approved by the SBOE prior to their introduction into state-adopted instructional materials.
Rules in 19 TAC §66.76 permit a publisher to submit a request for approval to substitute a new edition of state-adopted instructional materials. The rule also requires that all requests for updates involving content used in determining the product's eligibility for adoption must be approved by the SBOE prior to their introduction into state-adopted instructional materials.
MOTION TO BE CONSIDERED: The State Board of Education:
Approve requests from FrogStreet Press to update content in its English and Spanish prekindergarten materials, and from Studies Weekly to update content in its social studies
grades K–5 products.
Staff Member Responsible:
Amie Phillips, Director, Instructional Materials Review and Approval, District Operations, Technology & Sustainability Supports
Attachment I.
Frogstreet, Prekindergarten English
Attachment II.
Frogstreet, Prekindergarten Spanish
Attachment III.
Savvas Learning, Social Studies, Grades K–12
Attachment IV.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade K
Attachment V.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade 1
Attachment VI.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade 2
Attachment VII.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade 3
Attachment VIII.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade 4
Attachment IX.
Studies Weekly, Social Studies, Grade 5