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☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Authors of ‘And Tango Makes Three’ Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans

By: Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter — June 21st 2023 at 01:30
The authors of a picture book about a penguin family with two fathers sued the state and a school district that removed the book from libraries.

A lawsuit targeted a school district and the State of Florida over restricting access to a book about a penguin family with two fathers.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

The Bible and Book of Mormon Challenged Under Utah Book Ban Law

By: Jacey Fortin — June 4th 2023 at 21:14
In one school district, the Bible and the Book of Mormon were flagged for “sensitive materials review.”

Last month, a school district committee in Utah decided that the Bible should be removed from elementary and middle school libraries.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem, “The Hill We Climb,” Restricted by Florida School

By: Amanda Holpuch — May 26th 2023 at 13:59
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was “better suited” for older students after a parent complained about it.

Amanda Gorman reciting a poem during the inauguration.
☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

By: Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris — May 11th 2023 at 21:19
The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall declined Scholastic’s offer to license her book, “Love in the Library,” on the condition that she edit her author’s note to remove a description of past and present instances of racism.
☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

"Never seen anything like this": U.S. librarians report book bans hit record high in 2022

By: Julia Conley — March 24th 2023 at 21:00
Attempts to ban books infringe on a person's constitutional rights, says one intellectual freedom advocate

☐ ☆ ✇ NYT - Education

House Republicans Pass ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ Act

By: Annie Karni — March 24th 2023 at 16:30
The legislation would require schools to obtain parental consent to honor a student’s request to change gender-identifying pronouns. Democrats said it would bring the conflicts over social issues to the classroom.

The bill passed by House Republicans has no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate but appeals to many of the party’s most conservative voters.
☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till

By: Deirdre Sugiuchi — March 12th 2023 at 09:00
Working in a public school now, would I be comfortable sharing texts that might lead to me being fined or jailed?

☐ ☆ ✇ Boing Boing

Unable to burn digital books, Orange Unified School District bans the whole virtual library

By: Jason Weisberger — January 31st 2023 at 18:13

An e-book for teens was mislabeled and available to elementary school students, and so Orange County, California's Orange Unified School District has shut down access to the entire virtual library. Conservative parents are trumping up outrage over books all over the country, but this shows a level of sophistication I did not expect — when did these folks learn there are e-books? — Read the rest

☐ ☆ ✇ Boing Boing

Florida teachers could face years in prison for displaying "disallowed books" in classroom

By: Mark Frauenfelder — January 31st 2023 at 17:03

By threatening to imprison schoolteachers for displaying "disallowed books" in their classrooms, Florida dealt a reeling blow against Texas in the rival states' battle to become the capital of the coming Republic of Gilead

Commander DeSantis, whose selfless devotion toward making Florida a model christofacsist state, ordered the Florida Department of Education to "retrain" school media specialists, who will audit school libraries and remove books that veer from the glorious truth, replacing them with "state-approved" books that present history from a white nationalist perspective. — Read the rest

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