According to Burlingame High School librarian Rebecca Velasco, she’s only seen around 10 students check out books since January 2024. “The numbers are pretty low.

To date, it has only been checked out twice from Brookfield High School's electronic library, the superintendent said. Calls to ban books have been on the rise in Connecticut and nationally.

Students at Penn-Trafford High School made 96,000 trips to the library this school year. But as the school makes renovations, school leaders are getting rid of a lot of bookshelves, and the books ...