Manufacturing

STANDARDS FOR NON-CONSUMABLE BOOKS. The Commission may adopt physical standards and specifications that assure suitable durability of the textbooks, instructional materials and supplemental materials. Any non-consumable student book submitted as a textbook or as part of a textbook must meet the specific criteria identified in the Minimum Manufacturing Standards and Specifications for Textbooks ("Standards") as developed by the State Instructional Materials Review Association ("SIMRA"), in consultation with the Association of American Publishers and the Book Manufacturers’ Institute. The SIMRA Standards shall be Tennessee’s official minimum standards and specifications for non-consumable student books. The Commission may consider for recommendation textbooks that do not meet the SIMRA Standards if there are limited Learning Resources of quality submitted for a specific state-funded course.