Online Access To Sample Textbooks And Instructional Materials

(1) In addition to the finished textbooks and instructional materials required to be filed with the Tennessee Department of Education, publishers shall make all textbooks and instructional materials proposed for adoption available for inspection online by LEAs and the public. The online inspection shall allow inspection of both the textbook or instructional materials and all accompanying manuals, workbooks and other supplemental materials. (2) The content, including pictures and graphs, of the textbooks, instructional materials, and supplementary materials that are made available for online inspection shall be in finished form and shall be the same as what would be distributed to public schools; however, the platform and format does not have to be in finished form. If the online textbooks and instructional materials are the same as the samples submitted to the Commission as required by Rule 0520-05-01-.04, then the online textbooks and instructional materials shall be in finished form. (3) Publishers shall agree in the bid documents to provide access to complete online copies of the textbooks or instructional materials, including all supplementary materials, bid during the review process by the advisory panels, at the time specified by the Commission in the SUPPLEMENT TO CONTRACT-POLICIES OF TENNESSEE CHAPTER 0520-05-01 STATE TEXTBOOK COMMISSION textbook adoption schedule, but in no case shall the textbooks or instructional materials be available for less than ninety (90) days. (4) Publishers that submit textbooks and instructional materials for adoption shall provide the Tennessee Department of Education with instructions for how the public and state advisory panel members can access the textbooks and materials. The department shall post the instructions submitted by publishers on the department’s website along with instructions for how the public can submit comments on the textbooks and instructional materials.