| Mt. Clemens Community Schools |
| Bylaws & Policies |
2521 - 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. In addition s/he shall, periodically, provide for a systematic review, by the Board, of the District's educational resources in order to ensure that they are appropriate for the current educational program. Any revisions that occur should be a result of the school-improvement process.
A student shall be held responsible for the cost of replacing any materials or properties which are lost or damaged through their negligence.
Cost of materials may be charged for materials used in those activities beyond the basic curriculum in which a student elects to participate, particularly in shop activities where the product becomes the property of the student.
Criteria for Equipment
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 standards. |
Criteria for Materials
The criteria for the selection of educational materials may include, but not be limited to one (1) or more of the following:
| 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 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 or 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. |
M.C.L.A. 380.1274, 380.1277
Revised 10/16/90