A bill that would give parents more power over which books their children can read in public school libraries will soon go before Texas senators for a full vote.
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to mandatory LGBTQ storytime in public schools.
A New Mexico mom is speaking out against pornographic content in her two daughters’ high school curriculum.
Revealed: defense department sends memo that it’s reviewing for books ‘related to gender … or discriminatory equity ideology topics’
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.”
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.
Mary in the Library may not have the same recognition as Moms for Liberty, but parents in the Facebook group and other state-focused online communities have the same goal in mind: Getting sexually explicit books out of school libraries and away from kids.
In the past few years, there have been a surge in new state laws, administrative actions and lawsuits relating to banning certain books in elementary, middle and high school, particularly those having sexual content or are deemed as inappropriate or vulgar. These laws often implicate constitutional concerns under the First and Fourteenth amendments.
As the battle over allowing certain classroom curricula continues into 2025, two opposing groups shared milestones and failures from the past year regarding explicit books in the classroom.
Jennifer C. Berkshire’s interview with PRA about her and Jack Schneider’s new book, The Education Wars, provides a road map for defending public education.
Fearing book removal or losing their jobs, library professionals conceal bare butts and other exposed body parts in picture books.
Book bans are tanking sales of children’s books. Schools and libraries aren’t buying books about LGBTQ+ issues and race as they brace for culture war pushback.
But if you thought District Administration was equipping superintendents to make good decisions about the sometimes controversial issue of what kinds of books should go in school libraries, you’d be wrong.
Authors of the bestselling picture book ‘And Tango Makes Three’ argue that the book’s removal from school library shelves is rooted in unconstitutional, anti-LGBTQ “viewpoint discrimination.”
A few months after a vague new rule allowed the state to remove books with descriptions of sexual conduct from its public schools regardless of grade level, the South Carolina Board of Education has banned its first seven.