Posted on August 10, 2023 at 8:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
No part of the US is safe from efforts to put restrictions on literature.
Here's what came up in the news today:
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Texas hasn't provided detailed guidelines for the soon-to-be-required sexual content ratings on books sold to schools, so the largest distributor of books to schools is asking publishers to rate their own books — something several are balking at (Publishers Weekly).
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Meanwhile, Florida's new rules requiring classroom libraries to be inventoried and vetted by credentialed employees are literally costing school districts tens of thousands of dollars (Politico).
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Don't think you're safe if you're not in public school — a tiny library in rural Washington state is facing a referendum to be dissolved this fall because it refused to cave to an extremist group's demands to reshelf "offensive" materials (The Nation).
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