ARTICLE 19

INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES, MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

A. Educational Materials

The Board recognizes that appropriate texts, workbooks, supplementary materials, library reference facilities, maps and globes, laboratory equipment, shop equipment, audiovisual equipment, art supplies, athletic equipment, current periodicals, standard tests and questionnaires, and similar supplies and equipment, are the tools of the teaching profession.  The parties will confer from time to time for the purpose of improving the selection, quality and use of such educational tools, and the Board will promptly undertake the implementation of all joint decisions made by its representatives and the Association within the budgeted amounts appropriated therefore.  The Board agrees to at all times keep the schools reasonably equipped and maintained, as provided in the annual budget.

1. Each school should have:

a. Adequate chalkboard and bulletin board space in every classroom;

b. Copies, exclusively for each teacher's use, of all texts and, where available, teachers' editions and manuals used in each of the courses to be taught;

c. A dictionary appropriate to classroom needs in each classroom in grades 7 through 12;

d. Adequate attendance books, paper, pencils, pens, chalk, erasers, and other subject material required in daily teaching responsibility;

e. Sufficient duplicating, typing, and copy equipment, kept in good operating order, and appropriate supplies for such equipment.

2. The District agrees to provide high speed, high volume (for example: Risograph) copiers for teacher use as follows:

a. For elementary schools:

i. Elementary schools with student bodies of 599 or fewer shall be provided with one (1) high speed, high volume copier and sufficient related supplies;

ii. Elementary schools with student bodies of 600 or more shall be provided with two (2) high speed, high volume copiers and sufficient related supplies.

b. For middle schools:

i. Middle schools shall be provided with high speed, high volume copiers;

ii. Sufficient related supplies.

B. Individualized Education Plan

The District shall have available to all special education teachers a computerized program (including necessary related equipment and supplies) to assist in the preparation of Individualized Education Plan (IEP’s) and other related mandated reports.