January 2026 Committee on Instruction Item 5
Approval of Updates and Substitutions to Adopted or Approved Instructional Materials
January 30, 2026
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION: ACTION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION: ACTION
SUMMARY: This item provides an opportunity for the committee and board to approve update and/or substitution requests received for State Board of Education (SBOE)-adopted or approved products. The updated content has been posted for public review. Update requests were received from Agile Mind, Inc. for their mathematics materials approved in IMRA Cycle 2024; OpenStax, Rice University, for their mathematics materials approved in IMRA Cycle 2024; Really Great Reading Company for their phonics materials approved in IMRA Cycle 2025; and the Texas Education Agency, Bluebonnet Learning, for their reading language arts and mathematics materials approved in IMRA Cycles 2024 and 2025.
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 the statutory citations can be found in the links above.
PREVIOUS BOARD ACTION: In January 2025 the SBOE approved requests from Studies Weekly to update content in its social studies grades K–5 products.
In April 2025, the SBOE approved a request from Texas Education Agency to update content in its Bluebonnet Learning ELAR Grades K, 2, 4, and 5.
In June 2025, the SBOE approved a request from Decker & Associates, Inc to update content in its Personal Financial Literacy & Economics for Real Life products, adopted under Proclamation 2024, and Accelerate Learning Inc. to update content in its STEMscopes Texas Math grades K–8 and Algebra I products approved as part of IMRA Cycle 2024.
In July 2025, the SBOE approved a request from Accelerate Learning Inc. to update content in its STEMscopes Texas Math grades K–8 and Algebra I products approved as part of IMRA Cycle 2024.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION: Administrative rules in 19 TAC §66.75, pertaining to updates to adopted instructional materials from a past proclamation, require that all requests for updates involving content used in determining the product's eligibility for adoption must be approved by the State Board of Education (SBOE) prior to their introduction into state-adopted instructional materials. Requests must be submitted in a format designated by the commissioner and must include correlations to applicable student expectations. This requirement includes electronic instructional materials and Internet products for which all users receive the same updates. Proposed changes shall be posted on the TEA website for a minimum of seven calendar days prior to approval. The SBOE may assess penalties as allowed by law against publishers that fail to obtain approval for updates to such content in state-adopted instructional materials prior to delivery of the materials to school districts.
The SBOE shall either accept or reject each updated TEKS or TPG coverage percentage and errors report in accordance with 19 TAC §66.66.
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.
Rules in 19 TAC §67.39 permit a publisher to submit a request for approval to update content in SBOE-approved instructional materials.
MOTION TO BE CONSIDERED: The State Board of Education:
Approve requests from publishers to update content in instructional materials previously adopted through a proclamation review or approved through the IMRA process.
Staff Members Responsible:
Amie Phillips, Deputy Director, Instructional Materials Review and Approval
Colin Dempsey, Senior Division Director, District Operations, Technology, and Sustainability Supports
Requests not used as evidence of alignment to the TEKS, ELPS, quality rubric, and/or suitability rubric:
Attachment I:
IMRA-approved Content Changes Not Used as Evidence-Bluebonnet Learning
Attachment II:
IMRA-approved Content Changes Not Used as Evidence
Requests that affect content used as evidence of alignment to the TEKS, ELPS, quality rubric, and/or suitability rubric:
Attachment III:
IMRA-approved Content Changes Used as Evidence-Bluebonnet Learning