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The Virginia Beach School Board voted Tuesday night to create a committee to determine how to deal with library materials considered to contain “sexually explicit content.” The policy change aims to keep such content from elementary school libraries and create a list of content for secondary schools. The policy passed 6-4 with board chair Kimberly Melnyk and members Beverly Anderson, Jessica ...

The issue is state vs. local control over choosing the books for school libraries. State Supt. Ryan Walters says he was elected to do the job

Library re-structuring is only part of the district's plans to reduce spending, and Spring Branch has also closed down two schools in previous budget cutting phases.

ATLANTA — Legislation that would create a state council to set standards for books that could be banned from public school libraries as obscene cleared a Georgia Senate committee late

Two books the OSDE demanded be removed from Edmond school libraries are also available in numerous private, religious schools in Oklahoma. Educators argue the books aren’t anywhere close to pornographic, but instead contain valuable lessons.

BALTIMORE -- Decisions have been made about 25 of the 58 books that Superintendent Cynthia McCabe ordered removed from Carroll County, Maryland, public schools’ library shelves last September amid challenges from the Carroll County chapter of Moms for Liberty. As of this week, nine books have been permanently removed from shelves, nine have been retained and will once again be available to ...

With a lawsuit from Edmond Public Schools against it pending, the state Board of Education won't consider changes to the district's accreditation.

A Utah bill that changes how books deemed pornographic or indecent could be removed from public school libraries is on its way to Gov. Spencer Cox’s desk.

A proposal that would require school libraries to notify parents of every book their child checks out was advanced by Georgia senators Tuesday, while a proposal to subject school librarians to criminal charges for distributing material containing obscenity waits in the wings. The measures are part of a broad and continuing push by Republicans in many states to root out what they see as inappropriate material from schools and libraries, saying books and electronic materials are corrupting childr...

Early in his career, my father specialized in the study of the history of societal manners and morals in 17th-century England. His book, “The Moral Revolution of 1688,” published in