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Local Selection

Local educational agencies (LEAs), also known as school districts, have the authority to conduct their own evaluation of instructional materials and to adopt the materials that best meet the needs of their students.

LEAs must adopt materials from the state approved list. All instructional materials used in California public schools must be in compliance with Education Code sections 60040-60045 and 60048. Some local educational agencies conduct adoptions on an agency wide basis; others delegate authority to individual school sites to select their own materials.

LEAs and schools are encouraged to use the content standards, the curriculum frameworks, the SBE -adopted evaluation criteria, and the reports on each adoption as resources when making their own decisions. Although the state evaluation criteria are developed for K-8 adoptions, these criteria may also be useful in the design of evaluation criteria for high schools.

From: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/instmatoverview.pdf (page 6)