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Dozens of books in Tennessee public schools are being challenged. Some school boards and parents want to ban books that talk about racism, gender or sexual orientation.
The Sumner County Commission Monday took up the debate about who decides which books make it to school libraries.
Tennessee's textbook commission has wide new powers to determine which books students can and can't access in public school libraries.
With new veto power over which books can be in school libraries, Tennessee’s all-volunteer textbook commission missed its first big deadline — a symptom of a larger concern.