Another reason to pay attention to the Texas SBOE elections.
19 TAC Chapter 66, Subchapter B
§66.33. State Review Panels: Appointment.(a) The commissioner of education shall: determine the number of review panels needed to review instructional materials under consideration for adoption, determine the number of persons to serve on each panel, and determine the criteria for selecting panel members. Each appointment to a state review panel shall be made by the commissioner of education with the advice and consent of the State Board of Education (SBOE) member whose district is to be represented. The commissioner of education shall make appointments to state textbook review panels that ensure participation by academic experts in each subject area for which instructional materials are being considered. The term academic expert includes not only university professors but also public school teachers with a strong background in a particular discipline.
(b) The commissioner of education shall solicit recommendations for possible appointees to state review panels from the State Board of Education (SBOE), school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, and educational organizations in the state. Recommendations may be accepted from any Texas resident. Nominations shall not be made by or accepted from any publishers; authors; depositories; agents for publishers, authors, or depositories; or any person who holds any official position with a publisher, author, depository, or agent.
(c) The SBOE shall be notified of appointments made by the commissioner of education to state review panels.
(d) Members of a state review panel may be removed at the discretion of the commissioner of education.
Source: The provisions of this §66.33 adopted to be effective September 1, 1996, 21 TexReg 7236;
This is the link to the nomination form.
Nomination Form to Serve on State Textbook Review Panels
I would imagine that somewhere you could find out who is appointed to which committees by board district but I haven’t come across it on the web so far.
