SECTION 66.107. Local Responsibility

(a) Each school district or open-enrollment charter school shall conduct an annual physical inventory of all currently adopted instructional materials that have been requisitioned by, and delivered to, the district. The results of the inventory shall be recorded in the district's files.

(b) All instructional materials owned by the district or charter school must be turned in to the school at the end of the school year or when a student withdraws from school.

(c) The board of trustees of a school district or governing body of a charter school may not require an employee of the district or charter school to pay for instructional materials or instructional technology that is stolen, misplaced, or not returned by a student.

(d) The board of trustees of a school district shall require the employee responsible for ordering instructional materials to complete Texas Education Agency-developed training in the use of the technology and instructional materials allotment and the use of the instructional materials ordering system known as EMAT. Training shall be completed prior to ordering instructional materials for the first time and again each time the district or charter school is notified by the Texas Education Agency that the training has been updated. The school district or charter shall maintain documentation of the completion of the required training.

Source Note: The provisions of this §66.107 adopted to be effective September 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 7236; amended to be effective September 1, 1998, 23 TexReg 7779; amended to be effective February 7, 2002, 27 TexReg 746; amended to be effective October 12, 2006, 31 TexReg 8358; amended to be effective July 8, 2012, 37 TexReg 4911; amended to be effective May 5, 2016, 41 TexReg 3137; amended to be effective March 27, 2018, 43 TexReg 1846