Courts
Supreme Court sides with parents in Maryland dispute over LGBT pride storybooks in schoolThe Supreme Court on Friday sided with parents in a dispute about whether Marylandâs largest school district could force children to study LGBT storybooks without parental… Read More
Courts
Judge blocks school board from removing explicit books(The Daily Signal) â A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and âtransgenderâ books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted… Read More
Courts
Maryland parents âoptimisticâ as Supreme Court weighs whether they can opt their children out of LGBT storybooks in schoolâQueer farmers,â âdrag queen,â and âpride puppyâ are just a few of the controversial LGBT themes in childrenâs books at the center of a case before the Supreme Court. The… Read More
Public Education
North Carolina bill would give parents greater say over public-school librariesThe North Carolina Senate is poised to vote on a bill establishing new guidelines to monitor media in public-school libraries â which includes giving parents more leeway in adding and… Read More
Courts
Supreme Court to consider if religious parents can opt kids out of sexually explicit storybook readings(Daily Caller News Foundation) â The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday Maryland parentsâ challenge to a ban on opting their young children out of storybook readings about pride parades,… Read More
Public Education
Mom tries to get pornographic content out of daughters’ high school curriculum(The Daily Signal) â A New Mexico mom is speaking out against pornographic content in her two daughtersâ high school curriculum. One of Monika Bialostockaâs twin daughters brought home a book… Read More
Public Education
Books banned in prison but allowed in schools? Texas mom wants them out(The Daily Signal) â A Texas mother is looking to pass several bills through the state legislature this session after discovering what she calls âvulgar,â âprofane,â and âindecentâ… Read More
Culture
Kansas City-area public library hosting âcelebration of trans storiesâ for childrenAlthough the tide has turned decidedly against sex changes for minors nationally, a library in suburban Kansas City is hosting âA Celebration of Trans Storiesâ for kids later this month. Read More
Public Education
South Carolina removes 4 more books from school classrooms for content violationsSouth Carolina K-12 classrooms will no longer feature four books after a review committee decided they violated regulations prohibiting sexual content, the stateâs education board ruled Tuesday. âWe are not… Read More
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. âMost of the parents were… Read More
Public Education
Oklahoma school board keeps explicit book, ignores parents and state superintendentAn Oklahoma school district has voted to keep a sexually explicit book in its library despite parentsâ objections. Edmond Public Schoolsâ (EPS) board voted unanimously Monday to keep… Read More
Culture
Pro-abortion children’s book offered at many public libraries seeks to ânormalizeâ abortionPublic 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
Courts
Obama judge blocks Arkansas law that protects kids from lewd booksA 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
Government
New Jersey enacts law making it harder to remove sexually explicit childrenâs books from public libraries and schoolsThe 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
Public Education
Texas State Board of Education wants to streamline book approvals for districtsTexasâ 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
Public Education
Virginia schools secretly remove LGBTQ book amid explicit images controversy(The Daily Signal) â 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
Public Education
St. Joseph, Missouri school board votes to retain two more challenged booksA 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
Public Education
School board member who belittled momâs battle against obscene books now seeking ways to spam his criticsOne 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 heâs… Read More
Public Education
School board members belittle mother concerned about sexually explicit books in Kansas City-area districtShocking 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
Public Education
St. Joseph Missouri school district retains book with graphic incestuous rape sceneThe St. Joseph, Missouri Board of Education voted 4-3 Monday night to retain âwithout restrictionâ a library book that had been challenged in part for a detailed account of the incestuous rape… Read More