LAKEPORT — The Lakeport Unified School District (LUSD) board will consider adoption of new math textbooks based on the Lake County Math Adoption Committee”s recommendations at its meeting tonight.
Area educators have spent the last several months evaluating new textbooks for the first time since 2001, based on a list of K-8 math texts adopted by the state last November. The process involves assessing curriculum and narrowing down a selection from the list of 41 new state-approved texts that will be used in classrooms next fall.
It is not mandatory schools adopt new textbooks.
For Terrace school, the new texts under consideration are: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Program for grades K-3; the 2009 Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics for fourth and fifth grade classrooms and sixth through eighth grade is the McDougal-Little California Math.
The new texts were approved last fall by a California State Board of Education panel including math teachers. Kathlan Latimer, a program consultant with the California Department of Education and a former third grade teacher was one of those appointed to the panel that adopted the new math materials and said the state adopts new texts every seven years.
While California”s student”s math learning levels have risen, Latimer said the latest adoptions are aimed to align schools with the high standards required.
In other LUSD business, the board will consider adoption of a resolution opposing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger”s proposed 2008-09 budget which includes a cut to public education of $400 million for this current year and a $4.4 billion cut for 2008-09.
The proposed cuts for next year would require suspension of Proposition 98, a 1988 voter-approved constitutional amendment that sets the bar for state and property tax funding for K-14 schools.
The board will also consider adoption of a policy and administrative regulation regarding education for homeless children that was presented at its meeting last month. Among other regulations, if adopted the policy is intended to ensure homeless students receive transportation to and from school when the student is residing within the district ? whether that residence is a car, hotel, campground or other accommodations.
The meeting is at 6 p.m. at the District Office located at 2508 Howard Avenue in Lakeport.
Contact Elizabeth Wilson at ewilson@record-bee.com
