NOTICE OF
PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT
School
Board of Palm Beach County
RULE
TITLE: Instructional
Materials Accountability.
RULE
NUMBER: Policy 8.1225
SUBJECT
AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Storing,
distributing, tracking, and promoting end-of-year return of textbooks and other
instructional materials.
PURPOSE
AND EFFECT: To clarify the respective 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.
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 (or from Office of Public Affairs, 3336 Forest Hill Blvd.
Ste. B-102, West Palm Beach, FL 33406).
RULE
DEVELOPMENT HEARING: It is anticipated that this policy development will be
considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on December 2, 2002, at 2:00 p.m., in the
Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is
open to the public.