Adopted TEA Rules: Instructional Materials and Safe Schools

Published in the Dec. 13 Texas Register:

Adopted Rules (Effective Dec. 15):

• Open Education Resource (OER) Instructional Materials — Clarifying requirements for a school district’s OER transition plan. (Adopted with changes since published as proposed.)
  
  
• School safety/security — Requiring school safety/security-related reporting through Sentinel — the TEA’s relatively new formal portal designed to collect, process, store, and distribute school safety and security information. (Adopted with changes since published as proposed.)