Everything's Fines in Texas: Bd Meeting 11/20/09

Even seasoned Board-watchers might have missed a couple of items which sailed through on the Board's consent agenda: Fines for publishers. Everything's always bigger in Texas, and that's true of the fines as well. (Practically, they are really "credits" against the next time the State orders books as replacement copies or in the next adoption.) There are two primary ways you can be fined. For errors in your books (or other materials) OR for not having enough on hand at the start of the school year.

ERROR FINES:
HMH: Saxon Math K-5 (and Spanish editions) 17 errors for $149,485.17 (This is made of 6 serious errors at $15K each, 11 at $5K each) as well as a 1% of sales ($4,485.17))

SRA/McGraw Hill: Real Math K-5 (and Spanish editions) 13 errors for $157,766.48 (2 huge errors at $25K each, 5 serious ones at $15K, 6 at $5K and 1% of sales ($2,766.48) [Unless I'm mistaken, that means that SRA sold $276,648 of materials and paid $157,766.48 in fines--Not very profitable.]

Glencoe/McGraw Hill: Algebra 1 $5,000 for a single error

Teachers' Curriculum Institute: History Alive!--America's Past $5,000 for a single error

BACKORDER FINES (for start of 2008-2009 school year):
Hampton-Brown: $3,378 (ESL K-3)

HMH Harcourt: $100,410
HMH Holt: $78,952 (biggest offender: $13K for Chemistry)
HMH Houghton Mifflin: $947
HMH McDougal Littell: $17,683.99
HMH Saxon: $8,218

McGRAW Glencoe: $41,592.46 (biggest offender $16K for AP World History)
McGRAW McGraw Elementary: $24,044
McGRAW Macmillan: $11,087
McGRAW SRA: $4,980

PEARSON Addison Wesley: $10,740
PEARSON Prentice Hall: $32,028 (biggest offender AP English Language & Comp $24K)

and a host of other smaller publishers with smaller fines...