RISD Library Materials Challenge Form

RISD Library Materials Challenge Form

This form is to be used if you would like a reconsideration of a library material in any of the campus libraries. If you are wanting to opt your child out of being allowed to check out a specific title please use the opt out form instead.
Under Texas Education Code (TEC) §33.027, a parent, district employee, or person residing in a school district may submit a written challenge to any library material in a school’s library catalog. To submit a written challenge, an eligible individual must complete and submit the Library Materials Challenge Form. In accordance with TEC §33.027, an individual completing the form must identify how the challenged library material violates library standards adopted by the Texas State Library and Archive Commission (TSLAC).

Upon receipt of a Library Materials Challenge Form:
- The district must submit a copy of the form to the school district's board of trustees and superintendent, no later than the fifth day after the written challenge is received.
- The school district’s board of trustees must take action and make a recommendation on the written challenge at the first open meeting held after the 90th day after receipt of a written challenge.
- A school district must prohibit student access to challenged library material until the district takes action in response to the challenge.
An individual may submit an appeal to the board of trustees regarding a district’s response to a written challenge. The board must take action on an appeal at the first open meeting held after the appeal is filed.
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Library Materials Challenge Form Instructions

Part I: Enter the title of the text, author, ISBN (if known), and how the challenged library material violates the TSLAC standards.
Complete Title of the Material*
Author*
ISBN of the material*
In the space below or in a separate attachment, please explain how the challenged library material violates the TSLAC standards. Make sure to specify which standard(s). If submitting a separate attachment, please indicate below that there is an attachment. *
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Submitting the Library Materials Challenge Form

Part II: Follow the school district’s instructions for submitting the Library Materials Challenge Form.
1. Upon submission of this form, it will be delivered to the District Librarian, who will send a receipt of submission to you and deliver a copy of the request to the campus librarian, principal, superintendent, and board of trustees.
2. The board of trustees will then review the request and the material. In adjudicating a challenge, the board shall consider:
  1. The recommendation and justification of the requester
  2. reviews of materials conducted by academic experts specializing in the subject matter covered by the library material or in the education of students in the subject and grade level for which the library material is intended;
  3. whether the library material is suitable for the subject and grade level for which the library material is intended; and
  4. whether the library material adheres to the library standards approved by TSLAC under TEC, 33.021.
Please Note: A material shall not be removed based solely on the ideas contained in the material or the personal background of the author of the material or the characters in the material.
Board Action and Decision Information
After the board vote, the appropriate district-level administrator shall notify the requester of the result within five business days.
- If the board decision is for removal of the material: If a challenge to a library material results in the board removing material from the school library catalog, the district shall promptly notify each teacher assigned as the classroom teacher at the grade level for which the library material was determined to be not appropriate and instruct the teacher to remove any copy of the library material from the teacher's classroom library, if applicable.
- If the board decision is to keep the material: If a challenge results in the board not removing the library material from the school library catalog, the district shall not take any action in response to written challenges to the same library material submitted before the second anniversary of the date of the determination to not remove the library material.
Appeal of the District Action: The requester may appeal the action taken by the board in response to a written challenge by filing the appropriate district grievance form. The board shall take action on an appeal at the first open meeting after the date the appeal is filed.
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RISD Library Materials Challenge Form

Library Materials Challenge Form Instructions

Submitting the Library Materials Challenge Form

Board Action and Decision Information