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While schools across the country have shed librarians, Leigh Knapp became the first full-time librarian at her school.
The Book Bus reached an estimated 1,900 families last summer. With an upgraded ride, local educators hope to reach even more ...
Corinne Bailey Rae is working on a children’s picture book that draws upon her early memories of learning about music.
An appeal was filed, and now it is up to the Hillsborough County School Board to determine if the text should stay or go. This is the first time a particular book has made it to the school board ...
The Redlands school board censured member Melissa Ayala-Quintero on Tuesday night, May 13, and moved forward with rules that would ban most flags and make removing “obscene” books from ...
Parents and students wrote letters to school officials demanding that they reverse the book banning. On Tuesday, Radnor’s school board held its ... If you go to this, I better not hear you ...
As these baseless bans continued to escalate, we had no choice but to go to court to defend ... also notes that the board voted for school librarians to review 160 books and then ignored 70% ...
PEN America, a national free expression organization, joined the lawsuit on behalf of its author members, 32 of whom have had a total of 53 books banned or restricted by the Rutherford County school ...
The school board is dealing with a $50 million budget hole, and while School Board President Katie Baudouin said some of the money generated from the auction, scheduled for April 30, could go ...
"I think the best things happen in real life," author and illustrator Marc Brown, creator of the Arthur books, said Tuesday ... Like when I go to a school in Harlem everyone thinks Arthur is ...
The book covers issues and concerns that go along with sexuality ... Some speakers have regularly shown up at school board meetings to read excerpts from books they say are too sexually explicit ...