Pursuant to Board Policy 3270, when district-owned books have been replaced by more recent versions (or editions of the same material) and are of no foreseeable value in other instructional areas, these books may be declared unusable, obsolete, and no longer needed by the Board of Education.  Several of our schools and our district office currently have many of these obsolete books in their inventory, and they wish to be able to dispose of them by either giving them to a nonprofit charitable organization or selling them to companies or organizations which agree to use them for educational purposes.  All books are stamped with a “discard” stamp before being sold or given away.  Books not sold or given away will be recycled or discarded appropriately.

With effective record keeping via the Destiny system, all our secondary schools have books which need to be declared unusable.  Elementary schools also have books which need to be declared unusable as a result of the transition to Common Core State Standards (CCSS) aligned materials.  In the Education Services department, there is a file listing the names and numbers of the K-12 books which are now unusable or obsolete.  With Governing Board approval of this resolution, the district may discard textbooks and support materials as indicated above.