Education: instructional materials.

Existing law provides that the State Board of Education must adopt regulations to govern the social content reviews, as specified, conducted at the request of a publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials outside the primary and followup instructional material adoption processes. This provision remains in effect only until January 1, 2011, and as of that date is repealed. This bill would require the state board to inform the Chairperson of the Assembly Committee on Education, the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education, and the Secretary for Education of content that it interprets to be the result of certain changes made to the Texas Administrative Code. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2016. The bill would also require the state board, upon the next adoption of the history-social science curriculum framework, to ensure that the framework is consistent with specified standards governing instructional materials.