Texas leads the country when it comes to banning books in schools, according to a new report published by a free speech advocacy group. PEN America’s new report found that Texas ranked first in the number of titles yanked from school bookshelves across several districts, citing “political pressure” from state...
, a novel that follows a young African American heroine growing up in the wake of the Great Depression, and Ashley Hope Pérez’s, a novel about a 1930s romantic relationship between a Mexican American girl and a Black boy in East Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott asked schools to investigate whether their libraries carried “obscene” or “pornographic” materials“A growing number of parents of Texas students are becoming increasingly alarmed about some of the books and other content found in public school libraries that are extremely inappropriate in the public education system,” Abbott wrote in that letter.
Meanwhile, PEN America’s report mentions several North Texas school districts, including Frisco, Keller and Carroll ISDs.
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