| Leipsic Local School District |
| Bylaws & Policies |
2520 - SELECTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
The Board of Education shall provide instructional materials and equipment within budgetary constraints to implement the District's educational goals and objectives and to meet students needs. The primary objective of such instructional materials and equipment shall be to enrich, support and implement the educational program of the school.
The Superintendent shall develop procedures for the selection and maintenance of all educational and instructional equipment. These procedures shall include the participation of appropriate administrative and instructional staff.
Criteria
The evaluation and selection criteria for instructional equipment may include:
| A. | relevance to the school curriculum. | |
| B. | needs of individual students. | |
| C. | high technical quality. | |
| D. | high reliability. | |
| E. | use of professionally prepared selection tools and reviewing media. |
Criteria for Materials
| A. | Materials shall be suited to the varied interests, abilities, reading levels, and maturation levels of the students to be served. | |
| B. | Wherever possible, materials shall provide major opposing views on controversial issues so that students may develop, under guidance, the practice of critical reading thinking. | |
| C. | Wherever possible, materials shall represent the many religious, ethnic, and cultural groups, and their contribution to American heritage. | |
| D. | Materials shall be factually accurate and of genuine literary artistic value. | |
| E. | Materials shall be of a quality and durability appropriate to their intended use and longevity. | |
| F. | Materials shall relate to, support, and enrich the courses of study adopted by the Board. | |
| G. | A listing of all resource materials shall be made available for the use of the professional staff. |
R.C. 3329.05
A.C. 3301-35-03 (B)