September 2, 2020 Committee of the Full Board Item 2
Approval of Proclamation 2022 Questions and Answers
September 2, 2020
COMMITTEE OF THE FULL BOARD: ACTION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION: ACTION
SUMMARY: Proclamation 2022, issued by the State Board of Education (SBOE) in April 2020, calls for health education instructional materials and teachers-edition physical education instructional materials. Publishers and other stakeholders were given an opportunity to ask questions at a Proclamation 2022 introduction meeting held in March 2020 and encouraged to submit additional questions through email. Questions from publishers were added to existing questions common to all proclamations, and the resulting question and answer document for Proclamation 2022 is presented for SBOE approval.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Texas Education Code (TEC), §31.022.
TEC, §31.022, 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: The SBOE issued Proclamation 2022 in April 2020.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND JUSTIFICATION: Following the adoption of instructional materials in November 1999 under Proclamation 1997, the SBOE requested that staff responses to publishers’ questions related to interpretation of Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the proclamation in general be presented to the SBOE for approval. Subsequently, the SBOE has approved staff responses to publishers’ questions for each proclamation beginning with Proclamation 1998.
MOTION TO BE CONSIDERED: The State Board of Education:
Approve Proclamation 2022 Questions and Answers
Staff Members Responsible:
Melissa Lautenschlager, Director, Instructional Materials and Implementation
Amie Williams, Director, Review and Adoption
Separate Exhibit:
Proclamation 2022 Questions and Answers