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Courts
Supreme Court sides with parents in Maryland dispute over LGBT pride storybooks in school

The Supreme Court on Friday sided with parents in a dispute about whether Maryland’s largest school district could force children to study LGBT storybooks without parental… Read More

June 27, 2025
Courts
Judge blocks school board from removing explicit books

(The Daily Signal) – A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted… Read More

May 7, 2025
Courts
Maryland parents ‘optimistic’ as Supreme Court weighs whether they can opt their children out of LGBT storybooks in school

“Queer farmers,” “drag queen,” and “pride puppy” are just a few of the controversial LGBT themes in children’s books at the center of a case before the Supreme Court. The… Read More

April 23, 2025
Public Education
North Carolina bill would give parents greater say over public-school libraries

The North Carolina Senate is poised to vote on a bill establishing new guidelines to monitor media in public-school libraries – which includes giving parents more leeway in adding and… Read More

April 22, 2025
Courts
Supreme Court to consider if religious parents can opt kids out of sexually explicit storybook readings

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday Maryland parents’ challenge to a ban on opting their young children out of storybook readings about pride parades,… Read More

April 21, 2025
Public Education
Mom tries to get pornographic content out of daughters’ high school curriculum

(The Daily Signal) – A New Mexico mom is speaking out against pornographic content in her two daughters’ high school curriculum. One of Monika Bialostocka’s twin daughters brought home a book… Read More

March 3, 2025
Public Education
Books banned in prison but allowed in schools? Texas mom wants them out

(The Daily Signal) – A Texas mother is looking to pass several bills through the state legislature this session after discovering what she calls “vulgar,” “profane,” and “indecent”… Read More

February 24, 2025
Culture
Kansas City-area public library hosting ‘celebration of trans stories’ for children

Although the tide has turned decidedly against sex changes for minors nationally, a library in suburban Kansas City is hosting “A Celebration of Trans Stories” for kids later this month. Read More

February 17, 2025
Public Education
South Carolina removes 4 more books from school classrooms for content violations

South Carolina K-12 classrooms will no longer feature four books after a review committee decided they violated regulations prohibiting sexual content, the state’s education board ruled Tuesday. “We are not… Read More

February 6, 2025
Public Education
NYC public school teacher reads trans book to preschoolers outraging parents

 Should children read books about transgenderism? A Manhattan preschool recently had a transgender-identifying substitute teacher do just that in a classroom of 3- and 4-year-olds. “Most of the parents were… Read More

January 10, 2025
Public Education
Oklahoma school board keeps explicit book, ignores parents and state superintendent

An Oklahoma school district has voted to keep a sexually explicit book in its library despite parents’ objections. Edmond Public Schools’ (EPS) board voted unanimously Monday to keep… Read More

January 10, 2025
Culture
Pro-abortion children’s book offered at many public libraries seeks to ‘normalize’ abortion

Public libraries in cities across the country are carrying a book written by two liberals to promote abortion to children. Authors Carly Manes and Mar Erazo wrote the pro-abortion book… Read More

January 3, 2025
Courts
Obama judge blocks Arkansas law that protects kids from lewd books

A federal judge has blocked an Arkansas law that allows for prosecution of librarians and booksellers who provide pornographic materials to minors. Top Republicans in the state said they would… Read More

December 27, 2024
Government
New Jersey enacts law making it harder to remove sexually explicit children’s books from public libraries and schools

The Garden State just eliminated protections intended to keep inappropriate content away from children. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Freedom to Read Act into… Read More

December 20, 2024
Public Education
Texas State Board of Education wants to streamline book approvals for districts

Texas’ top education board is asking the Legislature to give the board authority to help school districts vet library books in compliance with state law. GOP members, who control 10… Read More

November 25, 2024
Public Education
Virginia schools secretly remove LGBTQ book amid explicit images controversy

(The Daily Signal) – Public schools in a Northern Virginia county have quietly removed a pro-LGBTQ book after parents criticized it for sexually explicit images, The Daily Signal has learned. Fairfax… Read More

November 4, 2024
Public Education
St. Joseph, Missouri school board votes to retain two more challenged books

A Missouri school board voted once again to keep challenged books in school libraries. The St. Joseph School District (SJSD) board voted 4-2 on Monday to keep… Read More

September 10, 2024
Public Education
School board member who belittled mom’s battle against obscene books now seeking ways to spam his critics

One of two Kansas school board members whose belittling of a mom concerned with obscene books in schools went viral has now suggested spamming his detractors. Noting that he’s… Read More

August 20, 2024
Public Education
School board members belittle mother concerned about sexually explicit books in Kansas City-area district

Shocking video of male board members at a Kansas City school district silencing and ridiculing a mother concerned about obscene books in school libraries has gone viral. Gardner… Read More

August 16, 2024
Public Education
St. Joseph Missouri school district retains book with graphic incestuous rape scene

The St. Joseph, Missouri Board of Education voted 4-3 Monday night to retain “without restriction” a library book that had been challenged in part for a detailed account of the incestuous rape… Read More

August 13, 2024