The stage is set in the Oregon Legislature for a final showdown over a bill that would prohibit removing or declining to ...

That law went into effect in July of that year. The law requires a book be removed from all public schools in the state if at least three school districts (or at least two school districts and ...

South Carolina now leads the nation in public school book bans, with 22 titles removed. The South Carolina Board of Education recently banned 10 books, citing “sexual conduct” as inappropriate ...

For generations, libraries have been hubs of information in their communities. Your public library, the library in your school and at your college, even those in hospitals and law firms, are centers ...

These librarians are fighting back More than 4,000 library book bans were attempted in public and school libraries in 2023, according to the American Library Association. Six librarians share how ...

The state now has 22 books banned from all public school classrooms and libraries, beating Utah as the former nation’s leader in book bans, according to PEN America, a nonprofit organization ...

In this legislative session, North Carolina Republican lawmakers sponsored bills that would allow more control over public ...

Ironically, for school districts and educational policymakers in the U.S., student safety and effective learning have not necessarily been presented as mutually exclusive values– however, recent calls ...

In the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America, which fights censorship in public schools and libraries, counted book bans in 29 states and 220 public school districts, with Florida and Iowa having the ...

Under current state law, people in South Carolina can report concerns or complaints about books in public schools ... for all students in grade school, according to Regulation 43-170.