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It would require school boards to ban books with content considered “harmful” under California Penal Code 313, which prohibits the material from being distributed to children.
A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries between 2021 and 2022 found that nearly 42% of the books challenged had LGBTQ+ themes or characters and 28% had characters of ...
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.
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 ...
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
Of the 23 picture books banned in at least two districts in the 2023-24 school year, 14 included LGBTQ+ characters and 17 had characters of color, with some books falling into multiple categories ...
Censorship of educational research databases in the United States has been a concerted political effort since 2016. [1] [2] Activist groups that aim to change school curricula and ban books from libraries and schools are applying political and legislative pressure to limit the content in educational research databases to which libraries subscribe to give students online access to educational ...
The PEN America report, released Monday, documents more than 2,500 book bans across 32 states during the 2021-22 school year