16 NCAC 06D .0206. REGIONAL TEXTBOOK EVALUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEES

(a)  The Textbook Commission shall appoint Regional Textbook Evaluation Advisory Committees for each of the state's educational districts defined in G.S. 115C‑65.  Members shall serve a one‑year term that begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 of each year.  The Textbook Commission shall fill any vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.  Members shall serve at the pleasure of the Textbook Commission.

(b)  All persons appointed to these committees by the Textbook Commission shall be qualified by training and experience to evaluate textbooks for use in the public schools.  In appointing these committees, the Textbook Commission shall consider the textbooks scheduled for adoption during that year, and shall ensure appointment of specialists in the content and grade levels of the areas for which textbooks are to be adopted.

(c)  The Committees, using the evaluation forms developed by the Curriculum Review Committee and their training and experience, assists the Textbook Commission in the evaluation of textbooks presented for adoption.  Before beginning to evaluate textbooks, each member of the regional committee shall participate in a comprehensive orientation and training session approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the chairman of the Textbook Commission and presented under the direction of the Superintendent.

(d)  Each regional committee, under the direction of a member of the Textbook Commission assigned by the Chairman of the Textbook Commission, shall meet and evaluate the textbooks presented for adoption.  Following these regional meetings, the Chairman of the Textbook Commission will assign members of the regional committees to subject area committees.  These committees, using the criteria and forms developed by the Curriculum Review Committee and approved by the SBE, shall meet, discuss and formalize their recommendations to the Textbook Commission.

(e)  The Superintendent will assign to members of the Department the responsibility of assisting the regional committees in the performance of their duties.

(f)  Members of the regional committees shall perform all of their prescribed duties between June 15 and August 1 of each year at times and places designated by the Chairman of the Textbook Commission.  Members of the committees who are not under contract with a local school administrative unit for the period between June 15 and August 1 shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day for not more than ten days, plus reimbursement for travel and subsistence expenses as allowed for state employees.  Committee members who are under contract with a local school administrative unit between June 15 and August 1, are employed by the Department of Public Instruction, or are employed by another state agency, will receive their regular salaries and will be reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses only.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 115C‑89;

Eff. March 1, 1990.