Some 43% of the book ban cases ... 29 states and 220 public school districts issued documented bans during the 2023-2024 school year, according to the report. Nineteen Minutes is a 2007 bestseller ...

The PEN America report found that book bans in public K-12 schools have only continued to intensify in recent years. In the last academic school year, from July 1, 2022, to June 31, 2023 ...

The free expression group says that from July-December of last year, it recorded 4,349 instances of book bans across 23 states and 52 public school districts. The report says more books were ...

PEN America has released its most recent report documenting public school book bans for the full 2023-2024 school year, finding 10,046 bans nationwide—a more than 200% rise over the previous ...

A total of 1,557 individual book titles were removed from school classrooms or public libraries ... Massachusetts. The report shows that the most recent wave of book bans continues to target ...

The report comes during Banned Books Week ... has also released preliminary data related to censorship, focusing on book bans in public, school and academic libraries between January 1 and ...

Book bans in public schools increased across the country last school year, with Florida leading the nation and responsible for more than 40% of them, according to a new report released Thursday ...

The number of public school bans in the U.S. in the 2022-23 ... during the 2022–23 school year," the report says. "This year’s book bans also disproportionately affect books about the ...

The Sunshine State led the nation in school book bans for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new report released Friday. There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school ...

Related American Library Association: Book bans targeting public libraries up 92 ... documented bans during the 2023-2024 school year, according to the report. Nineteen Minutes is a 2007 ...

Nov. 1 (UPI) --More than 10,000 books were banned in public schools nationwide during the 2023-2024 school year, marking a "dramatic" 200% increase over the previous year, PEN America said Friday.