What is the timeline for the NIMAS and the NIMAC?
• Once the NIMAS was published in the Federal Register, each SEA adopted NIMAS no later than December 3, 2006. • On December 3, 2005, the NIMAC was established and began a one-year planning phase. • The publication of the NIMAS in the Federal Register (July 19, 2006) was the beginning “publication date” by which print instruction materials needed to be provided to the NIMAC when required by SEAs and/or LEAs. As of that date, NIMAC’s responsibility pertains to all editions of print instructional materials currently made available for sale by a publisher. • As of December 3, 2006 SEAs and LEAs that opt in to the NIMAC require that publishers prepare and deliver NIMAS-conformant filesets to the NIMAC. • On December 3, 2006 the NIMAC became fully operational.
