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That state was Tennessee, where a school board banned "Maus" in January, as reported by the (Nashville) Tennessean. "Some high school libraries own Mein Kampf in Texas," the #FReadom librarian wrote.
Here are 50 books Texas parents have asked school districts to ban, nearly all of which deal with racism, sexuality
The Fort Worth Independent School District is in the process of returning books back to library shelves that were pulled eight months ago for review of sexual or violent content.
Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987), [1] was a lawsuit in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that the Mobile County Public School System could use textbooks which purportedly promoted "secular humanism", characterized by the complainants as a religion.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Pico – identified by the lawsuit as Board of Education v. Pico – was filed against the Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board in May 2023. [53] [54] Banning of books by school leaders from various independent school districts around Texas have seen a growth in recent years.
The Bluebonnet resource is an optional tool Texas teachers will be able to use free of charge, however, school districts that elect to teach the material will get up to $60 per child for doing so.
During the first half of the 2022-23 school year there were 1,477 instances of individual books banned, 28% more books banned across the U.S. compared to the previous six months, according to PEN ...