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Hold the Annual Materials-Sufficiency Hearing and Adopt the Resolution

The annual governing-board determination that every pupil has sufficient standards-aligned materials and required laboratory equipment access.

  • Instructional Materials
  • Williams
  • Governing Board
Date(s)Between the first pupil attendance day and the end of the eighth week of school
Applies toSchool districts and LEAs subject to Education Code section 60119 and their responsible schools, courses, pupils, and governing boards

In Plain Language: Use current site and course evidence, hold the public hearing during the first eight weeks, and adopt a resolution addressing required core subjects, health and foreign language, and high-school science laboratory equipment.

Why this matters

Districtwide inventory can hide shortages caused by enrollment, schedules, English learner components, IEP needs, home digital access, new courses, or delayed delivery.

Primary ownership

Primary owner: curriculum and instructional-materials lead. Governance owner: governing board and board office. Partners: principals, teachers, enrollment, EL, special education and accessibility, IT, library and textbook staff, procurement, fiscal, high-school science, legal, and auditors.

From first-day surveys to a materials-sufficiency resolution: the SDLA ITO workflow

The hearing falls within the first eight weeks and rests on current site and course evidence. This SDLA ITO (Input, Transformation, Output) graphic shows how site and course sufficiency surveys, enrollment, schedules, and materials inventories become the surveys and reconciliation, the notice and hearing record, and the board resolution and any correction plan.

SDLA ITO: eleven steps from site and course sufficiency surveys, enrollment, schedules, and materials inventories, through the survey and reconciliation, the public notice and hearing, and the resolution, to the surveys and reconciliation, the notice and hearing record, and the board resolution and any correction plan.
Read down each column, then move to the next: Input identifies what to collect; Transformation covers the survey and reconciliation, the public notice and hearing, and the resolution; Output covers the surveys and reconciliation, the notice and hearing record, and the board resolution and any correction plan. Hold the hearing between the first pupil attendance day and the end of the eighth week.

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Operational workflow

  1. Calculate the first-day and eighth-week window and complete sufficiency surveys early.
  2. Reconcile enrollment, schedules, materials, home access, EL components, IEP needs, health and foreign language, and laboratory equipment.
  3. Post compliant notice and hold the hearing at an accessible time.
  4. Present evidence and testimony and adopt the correct resolution.
  5. If insufficient, publish percentages and reasons and activate the two-month correction plan.

Implementation pathway

Survey
Reconcile
Notice and hearing
Resolve
Cure if needed

Evidence to retain

  • Site and course sufficiency surveys
  • Enrollment and access reconciliation
  • Notice and hearing evidence
  • Board resolution and minutes
  • Correction plan if needed
  • Audit file

Official guidance and help

Source review completed August 30, 2026. Verify current CDE, governing, Dashboard, school-plan, SARC, safety, instructional-materials, local-calendar, and legal instructions before acting.