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Multiple booksellers, publishers and authors filed a lawsuit in Texas on Tuesday over the state’s soon-to-be enacted law banning “sexually explicit” content in schools. The lawsuit, led by organizations including the American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers, are going after the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources (READER) Act on the grounds…

A controversial law banning books viewed as sexually explicit from public school libraries is being challenged in the conservative stronghold of Texas.

Book vendors selling to Texas public schools, ranging from national sellers like Amazon to local bookstores with eight employees, must now rate the books they sell based on sexual content.

By Nadia Bidarian, CNN

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AUSTIN — Texas lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban certain books from public school libraries. It now heads to the governor’s desk.

The Texas Legislature enters its final sprint of the 88th regular session

The proposal would also create a statewide policy for how school libraries stock their shelves and require parental permission for materials deemed “sexually relevant.”

During last week’s Public Education Committee meeting we heard testimony and received over 2,000 public comments regarding House Bill 900, also known as the Restricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources

State Rep. Jared Patterson calls his bill the READER Act. Nonsense. It’s clearly a book...