IMPulse Newsletter

TEA Opens EMAT for 2022-23 School Year

Posted May 17, 2022

The educational materials ordering system known as EMAT is open for the 2022-23 school year! Before placing orders, note that your TEKS Certification (if submitted) may not be updated yet. Also be sure to update addresses and shipping dates.

If you have any questions, please contact the Instructional Materials and Implementation Division by submitting an Instructional Materials Help Desk ticket to TEA for assistance.

EMAT Closing March 28 for 2021-22 School Year; Reopens May 16 for 2022-23 School Year

Posted March 24, 2022

The educational materials ordering system known as EMAT will close at 8:00 a.m. CDT on March 28, 2022. School districts and open-enrollment charter schools should place orders for instructional materials needed for the 2021-22 school year before March 28, 2022. EMAT is scheduled to reopen for ordering materials for the 2022-23 school year on May 16, 2022.

If you have any questions, please contact the Instructional Materials and Implementation Division by submitting an Instructional Materials Help Desk ticket to TEA for assistance.

IMCAT Members

Your TIMA allotment won't be official until TEA determines the distribution. Even so, it's pretty clear that Texas school districts are looking at somewhere around a 60% REDUCTION in their Technology and Instructional Materials Allotment from the previous biennium.

IMCAT's Legislative Counsel Colby Nichols explained the Legislature's action—which reduced funds for instructional materials by more than $620 million—during IMCAT's recent Summer Institute. Use this link to see his report about the 87th Regular Session.

Individual school districts' TIMA distribution will vary because of enrollment changes and other factors that TEA will use for its calculations.

We know: You were hoping for a healthy allotment in this biennium to prepare for HUGE proclamations that are looming on the horizon:

2024: Science K-12, Tech Applications K-8
2025: Social Studies K-12
2026: Math K-12

As Colby explains, the legislators have signaled that they won't do the same thing next biennium. We'll see. But for now, we're going to have to make do with a lot less.