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The battle over books in Florida schools continues. WGCU’s Cary Barbor took a closer look at the guidance offered from the state’s Department of Education.
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The county north of Houston adopted the guidelines amid a growing number of book bans in school districts and a new state law that supporters claim protects children from inappropriate material.
Montgomery County adopted a new policy empowering a citizen committee to review, and potentially remove, library materials at the request of the public.
When the 1980-87 military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan controlled access to information by creating lists of banned books, blocking access to foreign news and persecuting suspected dissidents, Korea's universities were a nexus of subversive activities, from political demonstrations that often clashed violently with police, to secretive groups that shared and read forbidden literature. That situation is dramatized in 'Banned Book Club,' a 198-page graphic novel by Kim Hyun-sook, Ko Hyung-ju and Ryan Estrada.