Assemblyman Caputo Introduces Legislation to Direct Boards of Education to Provide Each Student the Required Class Textbook

Assembly Democrat Ralph R. Caputo recently introduced legislation to address parents’ concerns over the availability of textbooks for certain classes that require a textbook for lessons and homework.

The bill would require a school district board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class which requires a textbook. The bill states that in some school districts not all of the students in a particular class are being issued a textbook; and the lack of textbooks puts students at a disadvantage in completing homework assignments and preparing for tests.

“We all agree that how we educate our students’ has changed significantly in the age of iPads, tablets and online textbooks,” said Caputo (D-Essex). “However, each school district must ensure that every student has access to the appropriate tools or textbooks needed to do well in the each course, whether the tools or textbooks are in-hand or online.

“This bill will ensure every student a fair opportunity to be successful in their studies. “

The bill defines a textbook as any book, workbook or manual or electronic textbook intended as the principal source of study for a given class. TLS.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. to bad this is not already law ,lakewood is a perfect example why this needs to be passed.Money spent on non educational things while students did not have textbooks

  2. its sad to see, that the biggest people wasting money on vacations & unnecessary technology, fancy simchas etc… are the poor people. How smart does a person need to be to know that your children, food clothing & tuition come before these unnecessary things?

    & then they want to know why they’re in dept & living in stress.

    start getting your life back on track, sit down with your spouse & make a budget plan. don’t let your situation get worse until you need to do a forclosure or claim bankruptcy C”V

    BE RESPONSIBLE & SAVE YOURSELF

    HATZLACHA RABBA

  3. Gotta love these Democrats passing laws without any way to fund them!!
    But they feel good about them and next election time they can say how much they care and how much we need them to tell us how to live. After all they know what is best for us!!!

  4. A Lang says:
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    DECEMBER 25, 2012 AT 2:55 PM
    I do not agree, education has not changed. Give me a class and chalkboard and my students will learn. Technology might make education accessible to more people than before, but it does not fundamentally change it.

    As for textbooks, it is better to ease the requirement of purchasing new textbooks than requiring them. Certainly every kid should get a book, but many of the old books are better and readily available. The reason why our students do not have texts is because our closets at LHS are filled to the ceiling with relatively new, but not new enough, Algebra and Geometry books, most of which are in very good condition.

  5. I do not agree, education has not changed. Give me a class and chalkboard and my students will learn. Technology might make education accessible to more people than before, but it does not fundamentally change it.

    As for textbooks, it is better to ease the requirement of purchasing new textbooks than requiring them. Certainly every kid should get a book, but many of the old books are better and readily available. The reason why our students do not have texts is because our closets at LHS are filled to the ceiling with relatively new, but not new enough, Algebra and Geometry books, most of which are in very good condition.

  6. I do not know why you pay a textbook fee. As mentioned earlier, we have stacks of books McDougal’s Geometry (2001) or Holt’s Algebra I ( 2003) in LHS that we cannot use. The New Jersey Textbook law requires districts to provide textbooks to private students.

    Unfortunately, I have no authority to help our people get free texts,, diplomas, credit, or vocational courses, all of which are possible if our elected leaders were legal and educational practitioners knowing our potential or if any of their hired administrators understood our burden. Our kids and taxpayers are paying dearly.

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