OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
GOVERNING BOARD

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING DISTRICT’S SUFFICIENCY OF TEXTBOOKS AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
SCHOOL YEAR 2022-2023

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PARENTS, TEACHERS, BARGAINING UNIT LEADERS, AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY INTERESTED IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT ON, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022, at a Regular Meeting of the Governing Board (“Board”) of the Oakland Unified School District, the Board, at 7:00 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, will hold a Public Hearing on the District’s Sufficiency of Textbooks and Instructional Materials1—School Year 2022-2023 via internet streaming (via Zoom and Granicus Live Manager, simultaneously). Following the conclusion of the hearing the Board shall make a determination, by Resolution, as delineated in (a), (b) and (c) below. 

1 Sufficient textbooks or instructional materials means that each pupil, inducing English learners, has a standards-aligned textbook or instructional materials, or both to use in class and to take home. [It] does not require two sets of textbooks or instructional materials or both, to use in class and to take home. Education Code Section 60119(c)(1)

California Education Code Section 60119 requires that the Board hold a public hearing, within the first eight weeks of school, to determine:

(a) whether each pupil in each school of the district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials or both, that are aligned to the content standards adopted by the state board [of education] in each of the following subjects, as appropriate, that are consistent with the content and cycles of curriculum framework adopted by the California Board of Education:

  • Mathematics,
  • Science,
  • History-social science,
  • English language arts, including the English language development component of an adopted program; and

(b) whether each pupil enrolled in a world language or health course has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials that are consistent with the content and cycles of the curriculum frameworks adopted by the state board for those subjects; and

(c) the availability of laboratory science equipment as applicable to science laboratory courses offered in grades 9 to 12 inclusive.

A copy of the proposed Resolution and the Report (findings) on District’s Sufficiency of Textbooks and Instructional Materials—School Year 2022-2023 are available for review on the World Wide Web on or after September 16, 2022, at http://www.ousd.org/domain/69.

s/Sondra Aguilera
Acting Secretary, Governing Board
Oakland Unified School District

1 Sufficient textbooks or instructional materials means that each pupil, inducing English learners, has a standards-aligned textbook or instructional materials, or both to use in class and to take home. [It] does not require two sets of textbooks or instructional materials or both, to use in class and to take home. Education Code Section 60119(c)(1)

 

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