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House Bill 1467, signed by Governor DeSantis in March of last year, basically states that schools must be transparent in their selection of instructional, library, and reading materials.
July 9, 2024 at 5:04 AM. News item: Textbook authors were notified by Florida officials that references to “climate change” had to be removed or modified from science textbooks to be suitable ...
In response to an email from NBC News seeking comment on the list and referring to the removed titles as “banned books,” Caily Myers, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education ...
Book banning in the United States (2021–present) Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders in the community would ...
Ron DeSantis conceded this week that Florida may have gone too far with efforts to ban books, some two years after he signed a law that led to school districts removing hundreds of titles.. The ...
Florida leads the nation in the number of books pulled from public school shelves. The group PEN America found that 1,400 titles were removed between July 2022 and July 2023.
The legislation, signed by Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, bans schools from carrying books that are "pornographic" or that depict or describe "sexual ...
Florida ranks second, behind Texas, as the state with the highest number of book removals, according to an April report by PEN, which tracked school book bans from July to December of 2022.