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Texas Education Code - Section 26.006. Access To Teaching Materials

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§ 26.006. ACCESS TO TEACHING MATERIALS.  (a) A parent is 
entitled to:     
		(1)  review all teaching materials, textbooks, and 
other teaching aids used in the classroom of the parent's child;  
and
		(2)  review each test administered to the parent's 
child after the test is administered.
	(b)  A school district shall make teaching materials and 
tests readily available for review by parents.  The district may 
specify reasonable hours for review.
	(c)  A student's parent is entitled to request that the 
school district or open-enrollment charter school the student 
attends allow the student to take home any textbook used by the 
student.  Subject to the availability of a textbook, the district or 
school shall honor the request.  A student who takes home a textbook 
must return the textbook to school at the beginning of the next 
school day if requested to do so by the student's teacher.  In this 
subsection, "textbook" has the meaning assigned by Section 31.002.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, § 1, eff. May 30, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 805, § 1, eff. June 14, 
2001.

Last modified: August 11, 2007