[CALIBK12] ETextbooks and Williams

[Jennifer Duckhorn]

This should set the record straight.
from William FAQ's:

Question: What does "sufficiency of instructional materials" mean?
Education Code Section 60119(c)(1) states that sufficient textbooks or instructional materials means, "each pupil, including English Learners, has a standards-aligned textbook or instructional materials, or both, to use in class and to take home. This paragraph does not require two sets of textbooks or instructional materials for each pupil." This specifically applies to four subject areas: reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and history-social science.


Question: Will Web-based or electronic textbooks count as instructional materials?
Yes, if all students have access to the materials both at school and at home. This
presumes that students who have Web-based materials have access to
computers and the Internet in school and at home and that student who have
electronic textbooks have access to computers in school and at home.


Jennifer Duckorn
LRDC Director




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Nixon" <Thomas.Nixon at fresnounified.org>
To: "Margaret Barnes" <Margaret.Barnes at sausd.us>, calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:59:20 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] ETextbooks and Williams



What a wonderful and interesting question! My guess is that it does not meet the spirit of Williams, but I don't know about the letter. The problem: Does every single student issued one of those CDs have a computer at home? Since Williams is about access and barriers to access, I would think using CDs (in 2009) is problematic. 

I wonder if the thought of a CD e-version even occurred to the drafters of the settlement. 



Tom Nixon 
-- 
Teacher Librarian 
Tehipite Middle School 
630 N. Augusta Street 
Fresno, CA 93701 
(559) 457-3420, x. 570 
Web: http://www.tehipitelibrary.org 
Blog: http://notyourmotherslibrarian.blogspot.com 


From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu [calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Barnes, Margaret [Margaret.Barnes at sausd.us] 
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:46 AM 
To: calibk12 at lists.sjsu.edu 
Subject: [CALIBK12] ETextbooks and Williams 








Hi Everyone, 

Does anyone know if checking out an electronic (CD) version of a textbook to a student equates to having a textbook at home for Williams purposes? 





Sincerely, 


Maggie Barnes 


District Librarian 


Santa Ana Unified School District 


1601 E. Chestnut Ave. 


Santa Ana , CA 92701-6322 


714-480-4784 


Margaret.barnes at sausd.us 






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