County residents are invited to stop by the Limestone College library to review math textbooks that have been proposed for use in public schools statewide.

Limestone College is among 23 college and universities statewide where textbooks will be on display through Nov. 8. Textbooks available for review this year are new books for Algebra I and Algebra II, Geometry, and Mathematics for the Technologies.

Evaluation forms for people to make comments about the proposed textbooks are available at each site.

Textbooks will be recommended to the State Board of Education for adoption on Dec. 9 by the Instructional Materials Review Panels appointed by the State Board.

Board of Education members will review comments from residents statewide before a final decision is made on whether to adopt the textbooks.

Cherokee County School Superintendent Dr. Bill James said decisions on new textbooks used in schools are made exclusively at the state level. He said state funding determines when new textbooks are provided to school districts in different subject areas.

School districts will receive a list of approved textbooks from the state early next year. Districts will adopt textbooks in different subject areas based on the availability of state funding.

The state has kept a tighter rein on textbooks this year due to the financial problems impacting every area of the state budget, said Dr. Linda Sellars, assistant superintendent for instruction.

“We have not received extra textbooks this school year like we have in the past,” Sellars said. “The state is sending out textbooks to schools based on their enrollment instead of giving school districts a certain amount of extra textbooks.”