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Writers' group PEN America, publisher Penguin Random House and banned authors joined with Escambia County parents and students in a federal lawsuit against the district in May 2023, arguing book ...
July 24, 2024 at 12:58 PM. Susan Q Yin via Unsplash. One of the parents who is suing a Florida school board over books banned from the district’s shelves tried to protect her 7-year-old daughter ...
The book was also challenged in Escambia County, Florida. The Escambia School Board voted to return it to shelves based on a recommendation from its Materials Review Committee in 2023 after it was challenged, along with three other books, by a Northview High School teacher who alleged LGBTQ indoctrination, race-baiting, and anti-whiteness among ...
Escambia County Public Schools ( ECPS ), officially the Escambia County School District ( ECSD ), is the organization responsible for the administration of public schools in all of Escambia County, Florida, in the United States. [ 2] The district currently administers 35 elementary schools, nine middle schools, and seven high schools, as well ...
Book bans go beyond Florida, with the the American Library Association’s latest book censorship report finding that 2022 had the highest number of attempted book bans since the organization ...
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
Douglas Soule, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida. July 1, 2024 at 11:01 AM. Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is doubling down on its position that books can be removed from school libraries solely ...
In 2023, it filed suit against the school district in Escambia County, Florida, over book bans, joined by publisher Penguin Random House, several banned authors, and parents in the district. [18] As of June 2022, PEN America staff announced their intention to unionize.