A new report shows that nearly 1,500 books were banned in the first half of the 2022-2023 school year. According to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans lists, there were 1,477 instances of ...

Neither the book nor its content were banned. However ... book "to see if it is appropriate to teach at George Dawson Middle School" after a seventh-grade teacher requested the title to use ...

Last year, a middle school in Pennsylvania canceled a reading ... But the spectacle of banning a book about banned books brought new attention to Gratz and his work, he said.

According to the school district website, three books have been banned, and another two have ... Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Middle and high schools Administrative removal as ...

TAMPA — “This Book Is Gay,” a nonfiction book that offers guidance to LGBTQ+ youth, will no longer be available at any Hillsborough County middle school. With a 4-3 vote Tuesday, the school ...

When it comes to banned books in public schools, Michigan sits toward the middle-to-back of the pack according to new data from PEN America. The nonprofit tracked school book bans the 2022-23 ...

Carroll’s public school system has decided to remove seven more books from school libraries, bringing the county’s banned book total ... schools but removed from middle school shelves.

PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of expression, counted 3,362 instances of book titles being banned in schools ... 24 books from the middle school and placed dozens more on ...

It's nearly triple the amount banned the previous year, an advocacy group said. More than 10,000 books were removed from school library shelves over the 2023-2024 school year, free expression ...

In January, a middle school administrator who was fired by ... court filings that it had destroyed the original set of banned books or that it had received a donated set of books that could ...

Neither the book nor its content were banned. George Dawson Middle School, named for the grandson of an enslaved person who learned to read at age 98, is said to have banned a book written by the ...