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Collier County, FL, has added a

ALA, the Virginia Association of School Librarians, PEN America, and more organizations make joint statement against a lawsuit attempting to require parental consent for minors to purchase Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury at Barnes and Noble in Virginia and more in our latest roundup of book censorships attempts around the country.

Childrens literature has lost another giant with the death of Jim Murphy, Colin Kaepernick to release a graphic memoir, SCBWI launches new fund and programs, and more in this edition of News Bites.

In response to a new Utah law regarding

Importance of fatherhood and this bill does that. it addresses the foster system and all of these poor kids aging out of the foster system in florida and across the country. i hope the entire nation jumps on this because there is no other issue in america that is more important and you can talk about reading levels, 71% of kids dropping out of high school are fatherless. you talk about the homeless crisis, the mass majority are fatherless. mental health issues, mass majority or fatherless. i app...

Should not tolerate from anyone, calling our police officers cowards. >> laura: pastor brooks, during the school closures that are still off and on affecting communities, including chicago, you had a lot of kids with nothing to do. some not having the greatest home life, some okay. but what did that do to this mix of despondency, violence, and the cycle of violence? >> well, we have already experienced a large dropout rate in chicago with our public schools, with our boys in the first place. now...

Their reading levels was one of the public schools, our neighborhoods for 40% reading levels 60% in math proficiency thats only going to get worse. and when those educational levels get worse, those individuals can becomele frustrated. they drop w out of school. what do they do? they commit crime. soe we cannot allow this type of atmosphere to continue or were going to continue to see the crime accelerate every single day. pastor vaxx even on the front lines there and trying to help families and...

More money to low income school areas. universal pre-k which is very popular with a lot of people. increasing the reading levels. well all like american kids to read better and know more stuff. this is the thing that i think is almost ironic. he want to create more authentic parent and family engagement but over the last six months, when we have seen the families engaged at the school board level, so many of the school boards wont listen, hello, loudoun county, the irony is that he, to the earli...

The longtime scholar was committed to evidence-based practices and research in school librarianship.

The coauthor of Chicka, Chicka 1, 2, 3 and other titles was teaching in Ukraine on a Fulbright Scholarship before being relocated to Warsaw, where he now helps resettle Ukrainian refugees.