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Utah State Instructional Materials Access Center: duties of the state board to establish it for students with print disabilities and to require textbook publishers to provide NIMAS file sets
In force.
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Governance
What it requires
- If you are the state board of education, collaborate with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, school districts, and charter schools in establishing the Utah State Instructional Materials Access Center, which provides students with print disabilities access to instructional materials in alternate formats in a timely manner (Utah Code 53E-8-409(1)).
- Make rules establishing the Utah State Instructional Materials Access Center, defining how the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind collaborate in its operation, and specifying procedures to identify students who qualify for instructional materials in alternate formats and to distribute and store those materials (Utah Code 53E-8-409(2)(a) to (c)).
- Make rules requiring textbook publishers, as a condition of contract, to provide electronic file sets in conformance with the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (Utah Code 53E-8-409(2)(d)).
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What this law does
In Title 53E, the state board is the State Board of Education. The Utah State Instructional Materials Access Center gives students with print disabilities access to instructional materials in alternate formats in a timely manner, and the state board must collaborate with the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, school districts and charter schools in establishing it.
The state board must make rules that establish the center, define how the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind collaborate in its operation, and specify procedures to identify students who qualify for instructional materials in alternate formats and to distribute and store those materials. The rules must require textbook publishers, as a condition of contract, to provide electronic file sets in conformance with the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard.
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