Curriculum and Instruction Action Item |
DATE: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
TO: School Board Members
FROM: MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent
SUBJECT / RECOMMENDATIONS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) established NIMAC at the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, which has created a national repository of NIMAS source files that can be converted into accessible formats (audio, Braille, large print, digital text or text-to-speech for students with print disabilities). The responsibility of NIMAC is to retrieve files from the textbook publishers and maintain a catalog of these electronic files on the NIMAC database. Through the language of the State Textbook Adoption Contract, all textbook publishers must provide the electronic files of Florida’s textbooks to NIMAC.
All textbook orders for eligible students with print disabilities throughout the State of Florida will now flow through SDHC/FIMC-VI. One of the first responsibilities for SDHC/FIMC-VI is to sign the NIMAC LUA. Both the School Board attorney and the DOE Legal Counsel have approved the wording of the NIMAC LUA.
For the past 35 years, Hillsborough has served as the fiscal agent for FIMC-VI through a grant agreement with the FDOE.
ANNUAL DISTRICT GOAL(S) AND CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S)
FINANCIAL IMPACT (Budgeted: Yes)
EVALUATION
SUBMITTED BY: Suzanne A. Dalton, Supervisor, Florida Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Impaired
Joyce L. Wieland
General Director, Exceptional Student Education (813) 273-7025 |
Wynne A. Tye
Assistant Superintendent, Curriculum and Instruction (813) 272-4221 |
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Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) * Mtg.#20081118_305 * Section A Item# 1.05 |