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Moms for Liberty read ‘porn’ hoping to ban books, as Seminole school board listens

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Moms for Liberty, the conservative group founded in Florida and now a force in national politics, aimed to get books pulled from Seminole County Public Schools libraries by reading aloud at a schoo…

Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General

New school year highlights book, curriculum bans facing America’s teachers

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via WPXI-TV (Pennsylvania)

Two stories of teachers facing discipline and a gubernatorial candidate using a flamethrower underscore the difficulties facing educators as the new school year begins.

Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General, Racism

Texas teacher fired for assigning graphic book on Anne Frank’s diary

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via The Washington Post (Maryland)

A teacher in Beaumont, Tex., assigned eighth graders to read from 'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,' in which Frank wrote about female and male genitalia.

Parent Involvement, Book Bans

This Florida college chose a president outside the DeSantis orbit

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via Tampa Bay Times (Florida)

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

Parent Involvement, Book Bans, School Board – General

American Library Association Releases Preliminary Data on 2023 Book Challenges

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via WBRC (Alabama)

New data shows record surge of challenges in public librariesCHICAGO, Sept. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Library Association (ALA) has released new preliminary data documenting the continued…

LGBTQ+, Book Bans

‘If people think this couldn’t happen here, they’re wrong’: Erie County libraries bring attention to banned books

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via The Buffalo News (New York)

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has joined Unite Against Book Bans, a national campaign to protect the rights to access information, and is taking part in the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, Oct. 1 to 7.

Book Bans

LeVar Burton leads dozens of celebs in open letter against book bans

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via 8 News NOW (Nevada)

The letter features signatures from Ariana Grande, Gabrielle Union, Ron Perlman, Constance Wu, Idina Menzel, Mark Ruffalo, Natasha Lyonne, Michael Ian Black and Patton Oswalt.

Book Bans

The Biden administration finally named a coordinator to combat book bans. That was the easy part.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)

Even as they see a political opportunity to take on the conservative 'parents' rights' movement, the options for the federal government to engage are limited and themselves politically fraught.

Book Bans

Texas middle school teacher fired after ‘concerns’ of assigned Anne Frank adaptation

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

via Texarkana Gazette (Arkansas)

A southeast Texas middle school teacher was fired Wednesday after assigning a graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's diary to her eighth-grade reading class, officials said.

Book Bans

Carroll County Public School students take a stand against potential book bans

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

via CBS News (Pennsylvania)

Students are weighing in on potential book bans in Carroll County Schools.

Parent Involvement, Book Bans

Harris County libraries are now ‘book sanctuaries’ for banned books across Texas

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

Harris County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday for the Harris...

Book Bans

Moms for Liberty: ‘Joyful warriors’ or anti-government conspiracists? The 2-year-old group could have a serious impact on the presidential race

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

via Houston Chronicle (Texas)

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School Board – General, Parent Involvement, Book Bans

New Horizon Media Research Reveals 2023 Back-to-School Season As Financially

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

via WBRC (Alabama)

- The "Pencils Ready" Survey Finds Safety, School System Failures, and Inflation among Parents' Top Concerns – NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nation prepares for the 2023 school…

Racism, Book Bans

Kansas State Board of Education member laments ‘smut’ in libraries

Tuesday, September 19th, 2023

via LJWorld.com (Kansas)

TOPEKA — Kansas State Board of Education member Danny Zeck quoted from the much-debated teen book 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' as he turned a state meeting on book removal…

Book Bans, School Board – General

Howard Stern says being called ‘woke’ is a compliment: ‘I’m not for stupidity’

Monday, September 18th, 2023

via The Kansas City Star (Kansas)

Howard Stern is embracing being called 'woke,' saying he wants 'to be awake.' 'I kind of take that as a compliment, that I'm ‘woke,'' the SiriusXM host told listeners of his eponymous show on Monday in response to a YouTube personality applying the term to him. 'To me, the opposite of woke is being asleep,'...

Book Bans

Who should decide what is taught in schools?

Monday, September 18th, 2023

via KHON2 (Hawaii)

Q. Book banning has been around for a long time. As far back as the Civil War, there were attempts by the South to whitewash history. Eighty years ago, Catcher in the Rye was cond…

Parent Involvement, LGBTQ+, Racism, Book Bans

Braun endorses Trump in Republican presidential primary

Monday, September 18th, 2023

via NWI Times (Indiana)

Braun believes Trump is the only presidential candidate who understands how the "Washington swamp works against Hoosiers, and works overtime to hamper our prosperity."

LGBTQ+, Book Bans, School Board – General