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The board went against previous review committees' recommendations to keep more than half the books.
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According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.
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It will require that any “resident of the county who is not the parent or guardian of a student with access to school district materials may not object to more than one material per month.”
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DeSantis says bad actors have turned book banning into a political stunt in Florida's K-12 schools.
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The legislative session has come to an end and bills are headed to the governor's desk. Here are some key pieces of legislation that public education watchers will be following in the upcoming school year.
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A complaint against "The Letter Q," a collection of letters by queer authors writing to their teenage selves, marked Pasco County School's first formal book challenge.
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Miami native Joanie Leeds's new record — “FREADOM” — takes on the movement by government leaders in Florida and other states to ban certain books.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis himself has spearheaded the efforts to keep inappropriate books away from kids, but now he’s endorsing a plan to curb what some see as excessive challenges.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Florida Department of Education and state legislature to rework certain policies that make it easy to challenge or ban books in Florida.
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A debate was held Monday, Feb. 12 at the Orlando Public Library. Participants discussed Florida's book bans.
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Bill de Blasio will be debating Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice on Monday, February 12.
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Social Justice Alliance of the Florida Suncoast plans a Feb. 24 event with music and speakers in Venice.