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California lawmakers recently voted down a bill requiring school boards to ban books with “harmful material” from libraries and classrooms, legislation that would have given parents the ...
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 ...
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.
Banned books is a contentious debate in courts, classrooms and libraries. ... teachers can be charged with a felony ... A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries ...
In 2020, the Burbank Unified School District banned the book from the curriculum due to complaints from four parents, who allege the material in the book could lead to potential harm to the district's African-American students.
[7] [39] [40] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [41]
The PEN America report, released Monday, documents more than 2,500 book bans across 32 states during the 2021-22 school year
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 ...