BOARD POLICY
Irvine Unified School District 
6161.3
 

OBSOLETE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
 
The Board of Education is required to adopt rules, regulations, and procedures for prescribing standards for determining when instructional materials, including textbooks, are obsolete. 

To assure careful and timely discard of obsolete instructional materials, these guidelines shall be followed: 

  1. Instructional materials, including textbooks, approved by the State or adopted by the Board and placed in use, shall be retained in use for a period of not less than three years after the date of its adoption. 
  2. Textbooks may be declared obsolete upon their approved replacement. Other instructional materials may be declared obsolete by the Assistant Superintendent of Instruction. 
  3. Obsolete instructional materials, including textbooks, may be disposed of in accordance with Provisions outlined in the Education Code. 
All money received from the sale of obsolete instructional materials, including textbooks, shall be deposited in the textbook or instructional fund of the school or division making the sale. 

Adopted: May 2, 1984


   Administrative Regulation