The State Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission is weighing whether classroom experience should matter more when it comes to reviewing textbooks.The commission is currently working on forming an advisory panel to review science textbooks under consideration for Tennessee schools. The commission selects members of the panel each year through an application process.

A new state law requires Tennessee’s Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission to “issue guidance” for local school districts to use when reviewing whether books in a school library are appropriate for children.Commission Member Laurie Cardoza-Moore argued the board should go beyond that at last week’s workshop meeting.