The national furor in recent years aroundbanning bookson race and gender in public schools is intensifying as President-elect Donald Trump threatens to shut down the Department of Education, emboldening conservatives to end “wokeness” in classrooms. ...
Several new protections for LGBTQ students and families were unveiled on Thursday by the Biden administration, including establishing a coordinator to "lead the charge" against banning books in schools, administration officials said.The yet-to-be-named Education Department coordinator will train school d...
according to EveryLibrary — including one in New Jerseypassed this week.California passed a law allowingthe state to fine schoolsthat ban books portraying LGBTQ+ people and other historically marginalized groups, andanother prohibiting librariesfrom banning such books. ...
North Texas yields a frightening window of what life is like when Trump supporters hold all the power Politics By Steven Monacelli Tennessee School Board Stands By Decision to Ban 'Maus' Despite Community Uproar Librarians and members of Jewish community couldn't convince McMinn County Board of Ed...
"I think that. you know, a lot of fervor around possibly banning books is just the latest instance of national politics coming home and the deep symbolic divisions in national politics brewing, playing out in our schools and our communities," he said. ...
Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
PEN America also released a newly updated Banned in the USAreporton April 20, noting in the report’s subtitle “State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools.” Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah and South Carolina racked up the most bans overall, serving as models for restrictive policies ...
Illinois will be the first state in the country to have laws banning your ability to ban books, a banning on a ban...Here are the details you need to know. Get our free mobile app According toFox News, lawmakers in the Land of Lincoln are about to make history as the first state ...
Roughly 30 Harvard affiliates rallied on the steps of Memorial Church Wednesday afternoon to denounce the banning of books and the elimination of educational curricula on queer theory, gender theory, and critical race theory in parts of the United States. The protest, held as part of a national...
DeSantis has called reports of mass bannings a “hoax.” He said earlier this month that some people “are attempting to use our schools for indoctrination.” Some books do come back. Officials at Florida’s Duval County Public Schools were widely criticized after they removed Roberto Clemente...