Anti-book banning bill moves through Senate Education Committee
A bill making its way through the California Legislature would require a two-thirds vote of a school board to remove books or other instructional materials.
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A bill making its way through the California Legislature would require a two-thirds vote of a school board to remove books or other instructional materials.
A Southern California school board had voted against an elementary school curriculum that included materials about gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
It’s the governor’s latest effort to fend off book bans in the Golden State.
Reports indicate that pastors and Christian leaders are often forcibly removed and subjected to months of re-education under house arrest.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A bill focusing on what books local school boards could remove from their shelves drew impassioned debate from both sides of the issue at a Wednesday hearing of the state Senate Education Committee.