PUBLIC COMPLAINTS ABOUT

The Board of Education recognizes students' rights of free access to many different types of books and instructional materials and the right and responsibility of teachers and administrators to recommend books and other materials for selection by the Board in accord with current trends in education, and to make them available in the schools.

The Board's aim is to provide textbooks and instructional materials that present as many points of view as possible concerning the problems and issues of our times; international, national and local.

All complaints concerning textbooks, library materials and other instructional material shall be directed to the principal of the building where the material is being challenged. The superintendent of schools shall promulgate regulations subject to board approval establishing regulations to process a complaint.

Adoption Date: October 3, 1989

Policy Revision Adoption Date: September 24, 1996

Policy Revision Adoption Date: November 2, 1999