HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Department of Education (DOE) announced changes happening for the upcoming school year for math textbook publishers.

The news is raising a lot of questions. 

All the textbooks in question are for next year's curriculum, but what educators do have, is a list of textbooks that the DOE rejected. 

They’ve even asked the publishers to make changes and resubmit in order to be used in the classrooms next year.

“This is not new to see textbooks get rejected. It happens each and every year,” Supervisor of Secondary Programs at Hernando County School District John Morris, told Bay News 9.

Morris oversees most of the curriculum for middle and high school in Hernando County. This is something he’s been doing for four years now.

“Some of the books that we did propose that we were going to adopt are on the list to be approved. There are some books in certain grade levels that were rejected,” he said.

Each year, textbooks from a specific subject are presented in front of a committee to be reviewed. This year happens to be math.

“I couldn’t give you an exact number in terms of percentages," he continued. "I know they released percentages specifically this year. The only thing that’s different about this year is there was a memo that was attached to it.”

The memo released on April 15th can be found here.

Morris added, “But usually, like I said, they go through a process of appealing. Most textbooks wind up getting back on there. It’s usually minor standard alignment is what happens typically.”

He said it's a waiting game now to see what publishers resubmit, and what the DOE accepts before they can finally purchase and start preparing for the 2022-2023 school year. 

Hernando County had K-5, 7th Grade, and Algebra II regular courses, rejected as of when this story aired. Advanced courses in those grade levels were all approved.