TITLE education

Part II. Texas Education Agency

Chapter 66. State Adoption and Distribution of Instructional Materials

Subchapter B. State Adoption of Instructional Materials

19 TAC §66.28

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) adopts an amendment to 19 TAC §66.28, concerning the identification of the essential knowledge and skills that will be used in evaluating textbooks, without changes to the proposed text as published in the March 19, 1999, issue of the Texas Register (24 TexReg 1895).

The section specifies the essential knowledge and skills used to evaluate instructional materials submitted under proclamations of the State Board of Education advertising for bids on instructional materials.

Texas Education Code, Chapter 28, requires that the SBOE, by rule, identify the Texas essential knowledge and skills (TEKS) that will be used in evaluating textbooks. The amendment to §66.28 adopts by reference the specifications for the TEKS used to evaluate instructional materials submitted under the call of Proclamation 1998.

No comments were received regarding adoption of the amendment.

The amendment is adopted under the Texas Education Code, §28.002, which authorizes the State Board of Education, to identify the essential knowledge and skills.

This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on May 10, 1999.

TRD-9902683

Criss Cloudt

Associate Commissioner, Policy, Planning and Research

Texas Education Agency

Effective date: September 1, 1999

Proposal publication date: March 19, 1999

For further information, please call: (512) 463-9701