RULE NUMBER: Policy 8.1225.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To set forth consistent procedures for storing, distributing, tracking, and promoting the return of textbooks and other instructional materials.

SUMMARY: Clarifies the responsibilities of the Superintendent, principals, teachers, students, and parents regarding accountability for textbooks and other instructional materials. Provides procedures to implement Fla. Stat. § 1006.28(3)(b) [233.46(2)], which requires that "the school principal shall collect from each student or the student’s parent the purchase price of any instructional material the student has lost, destroyed, or unnecessarily damaged . . . . If [those] instructional materials . . . have been in school use for more than 1 year, a sum ranging between 50 and 75 percent of the purchase price . . . shall be collected, determined by the physical condition of the book. The failure to collect such sum upon reasonable effort by the school principal may result in the suspension of the student from participation in extracurricular activities or satisfaction of the debt by the student through community service activities at the school site as determined by the school principal, pursuant to policies adopted by district school board rule."

SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: §§ 1001.41(2) [230.22(2)]; 1006.28 [233.46], Fla. Stat.

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: §§ 1006.28 [233.46(2); 233.43]; 1006.42 [233.47], Fla. Stat.

SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COST (IF ONE HAS BEEN PREPARED): None. Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or to provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative, must do so in writing within 21 days of the publication of this Notice.

TEXT OF PROPOSED RULE: Is available from the District’s web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm.

CONTACT PERSON: Meezie Pierce or Joe Moore, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the Proposed Policy Development may promptly be obtained without cost from the District’s web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm.

PERSONS ORIGINATING THE PROPOSED RULE: Meezie Pierce and Joe Moore, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

SUPERVISOR OR PERSON WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: Dr. Art Johnson.

DATE PROPOSED RULE WAS APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD: December 2, 2002.

PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED: November 25, 2002, in The Palm Beach Post.

RULE HEARING INFORMATION: Adoption of the proposed Policy is anticipated to be considered at the Board’s Special Meeting on Policies on January 13, 2003 in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.