Banned books lead Missouri students to sue school district

First Amendment advocates fight growing number of U.S. book bans

That book, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” is one of the more than 3,300 books that have been banned during the 2022-2023 school year, a 33% ...

Banned Books - ED 351: Children's Literature

In Kansas City, Kansas, the school district donated the book to the city's public library; and in Lee's Summit, Missouri, the superintendent ...

Illinois Protects Library Books; Missouri Removes Them

According to the Columbia Missourian, Wentzville School District has implemented the most book bans in the state. Other school districts include ...

Students Successfully Sue School Board Over Book Bans

Fed up with books being banned by the school administration, on January 4, 1977, students at Island Trees High School in Long Island, New York, ...

State Laws Are Behind Many Book Bans, Even Indirectly, Report Finds

In Missouri, 11 districts were responsible for 297 book bans, but 220 of them were in one district, the Wentzville School District, just west of ...

Book bans soar in U.S. schools, largely in Republican-led states

Fearing criminal penalties, public schools throughout Missouri removed hundreds of books from their libraries after state lawmakers last ...

PEN America's Index of School Book Bans

Banned Pending Investigation. Pennsylvania. Downington Area School District. October 2021. Administrator. Andrews, Jesse. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Banned ...

Banned in the USA - PEN America

In response, Alpine and Washington County school districts in Utah banned dozens of books, including The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, I Am Not ...

Banned Books: Resources for Educators - Subject Guides - LibGuides

In Missouri, students filed a lawsuit (Case No. 4:22-cv-191) against their district for removing eight books from school libraries. https ...

Florida school district sued over book bans - The Jerusalem Post

The Escambia County School District and School Board have targeted books dealing with race and LGBTQ issues for removal, depriving students ...

Book Banning, Curriculum Restrictions, and the Politicization of U.S. ...

In Texas, for example, at least 713 books have been banned from public schools, and school districts' and school boards' attempts to censor ...

First Amendment advocates fight growing number of U.S. book bans ...

Brown, a 16-year-old student ... led to the politicization of school board meetings. ... bans, often attends school board meetings where books she's read are being ...

Library book ban attempts are at an all-time high. These librarians ...

Calzada dealt with book challenges to her school libraries in early 2021 when a parent's speech at a school board meeting asking to remove a ...

New Missouri law makes it a crime for educators to share "explicit ...

A new law in Missouri targeting child sex trafficking and sexual assault also includes what critics are calling a book ban that restricts the types of reading ...

Facts and Case Summary - Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

Claiming that the school violated their First Amendment rights, the students ... District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis. The trial ...

A Roundup of the Latest Book-Banning News - NewsBreaks

Last year, I wrote about the only library book ban case ever to reach the U.S. Supreme Court ('The Right to Receive Ideas': Island Trees ...

Banned Books: Are Schools Erasing History? | YIP Institute Social ...

Currently, there exists no legislation that outright bans students from reading certain books, but past cases such as Tinker v. Des Moines give ...

School librarians face a new penalty in the banned-book wars: Prison

Librarians could face years of imprisonment and tens of thousands in fines for providing sexually explicit, obscene or “harmful” books to children under new ...

Book Banning | RCP Story Stream - RealClearEducation

... Students, Authors Sue FL District Over Banned Penguin Book June 22, 2023. The school district outside Orlando restricted a children's book ... Missouri town, a ...

Educators oppose push for banned books, support diversity - Beacon

Districts in Goddard, Kansas, and North Kansas City temporarily banned books from school libraries after pushback from parents.