Dallas Independent School District
Texas · 141,000 students · www.dallasisd.org
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We list only titles the district has publicly documented as adopted in its curriculum. State- and curriculum-level texts that apply in this district appear on the Texas state page.
About Dallas Independent School District
Dallas Independent School District is a large-district (100,000–500,000 students) serving public-school students in Texas. Like every US public-school district, Dallas Independent School District selects classroom reading material through an instructional-materials review process governed by Texas state policy and by the district's own school-board adoption procedures. Individual schools and teachers within the district then choose specific titles from the approved pool to match their grade levels, course objectives, and student populations.
As a large district, Dallas Independent School District typically maintains a centrally-published reading list or instructional materials catalogue that schools work from. Approved titles cover the TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) for each grade, plus district-level supplements (locally significant authors, accelerated/honors selections, English-language-learner texts, and translations for the district's home-language population).
Book challenges in Dallas Independent School District — when a parent, board member, or community member formally requests review of an assigned title — follow Texas's instructional-materials reconsideration procedure. The district's school board may convene a review committee, hold public comment, and either retain the title, restrict access (e.g., to specific grade levels), or remove it from the approved list. Decisions are typically appealable to the state board of education.
How Dallas Independent School District selects classroom reading material
Title selection in Dallas Independent School District follows a layered process: (1) the TexasDepartment of Education publishes ELA standards and an approved instructional materials list at the state level; (2) the district’s curriculum office adopts a subset of approved titles plus district-level supplements via school-board action; and (3) individual schools and English teachers within Dallas Independent School District select from the adopted pool to match grade-level objectives, course themes, and student-population needs (English-language learners, advanced placement, special education, magnet programs).
This means a book listed as “assigned by Dallas Independent School District” might appear in every English classroom in the district, or in only one school, or only at one grade level — depending on how the title was adopted. The book’s detail page on ReadingList specifies the adoption scope when known.