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The South Carolina Board of Education voted Tuesday to ban four books from all state schools. This decision has shocked some students and parents.
Shavawn Simmons takes the fight against book bans personally, using her passion to fight censorship through literacy programs and Little Free Libraries.
An Ohio writers’ group is responding to a rise in school and library censorship by publishing a new collection of stories that tackle topics often the focus of banned books, like religion, race and immigration.
A cadre of book publishing giants joined an Idaho library district, Meridian librarian, authors and students to sue Idaho officials over a 2024 law that allows people to challenge library books deemed “harmful” to minors — and sue if the books aren’t removed.
A fight against book bans in public schools has taken several blows recently.
Dear Advocates and the Freedom to Learn Community, Freedom to Learn Advocates (FTLA) stands in unwavering support of the essential role that libraries play in upholding access to diverse information and fostering educational freedom in our communities. When the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a directive earlier this week mandating a temporary halt […]
Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing a Department of Education announcement that called bans a “hoax” and dismissed 11 complaints that had been filed during the Biden administration.
The Education Department said on Friday that it would no longer investigate schools that remove books from their libraries, emphasizing its new stance by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools.
Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and conservative activists demanding that certain books – often about race, gender, and sexuality – be removed from the shelves.
A school district in the Texas panhandle temporarily removed the Bible – and reinstated it soon after – in an effort to comply with a controversial new state law that bans sexually explicit materials in schools.