As commissioner, Martinez is now responsible for overseeing the state’s education priorities and ensuring districts are ...

A Wake County public school committee rejected a book challenge to remove Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner from high school curriculum for world literature.

Nine months after being removed, 18 banned books were returned to library shelves in Colorado’s Elizabeth School District last week, following a federal judge’s order.

A school board in Colorado cannot remove sexually explicit, profane, and “transgender” books from school libraries because the school board is conservative, according to a federal judge touted ...

After a law that broadly banned materials with nudity or violence passed the Tennessee legislature, hundreds of books have been pulled from East TN school shelves.

MONROE COUNTY, Tenn. — Books about the Holocaust, the Civil War, race and religion have been pulled from school library shelves in Monroe County. 10News filed an open records request for a list ...

Scottsdale Unified removes 16 of 18 challenged books The books listed in the conservative groups' challenge letter each have a rating from BookLooks.org, a site launched in 2022 that has become a ...

Book challenges have become more prevalent nationwide. In 2022, Colorado was home to nearly 10 percent of all book challenges, according to the American Library Association.

2 board members wrestle with book banning issue The gender identity book that led to a complaint and disputed December meeting will be banned from Murfreesboro City Schools, officials decided Tuesday.

The November decision pushed the total of pulled or banned books to 196, which are perceived to be in violation of the Tennessee obscenity law for being sexually explicit in at least a part of each ...

Book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 school year with more than 10,000 books banned in public schools, according to a new report. The spike reflects a renewed effort since 2021 to ban or ...