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A 2023 analysis by The Washington Post found that a majority of book challenges in over 100 school districts from the 2021–2022 school year were filed by just 11 people. [30] Based on a survey by PEN, about 10,000 books were banned from US schools by Republican-led censorship laws in the 2023/2024 academic year.
Book censorship can take a number of forms. Scholar Emily Knox specifies four types of "active" censorship: Removal: abolishing certain books from the library, classroom, or bookstore shelves; Relocation: moving the specific books to harder-to-access locations within the library, such as creating an "adults only" section;
Island Trees High School in 2019. Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982), was a landmark case in which the United States Supreme Court split on the First Amendment issue of local school boards removing library books from junior high schools and high schools.
As students return to the classroom, more schools are banning phones or otherwise restricting their use. ... Whitman, a co-founder of Phone Free, started advocating for no mobiles in schools after ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools. The group previously documented ...
School districts in California will have to create rules restricting student smartphone use under a new law Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Monday. The legislation makes California the latest ...
Mobile phone use in schools. A phone cage used for keeping students' phones away from them during school hours. The use of mobile phones in schools has become a very controversial topic debated by students, parents, teachers and authorities. People who support the use of mobile phones believe that these phones are useful for safety, allowing ...
The County Commission provides $2.1 million to the library system this fiscal year that started July 1. The committee decided to give the library board 60 days to show a plan on policing books ...