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It’s been two years since Texas implemented new health education standards for students, but advocates say the opt-in instruction still isn’t comprehensive.
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A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.
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Parents from Katy, Austin and Keller recently launched the Texas Freedom to Read Project. All were angry over growing book bans they say infringe on free speech and access to ideas.
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House Bill 900 seeks to rid school libraries of inappropriate books by requiring book vendors to rate materials. A legal challenge says the law is too vague and broad.
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Scholastic created a separate fair category for diverse books, which it says is to help schools navigate the complexities of book bans. Librarians accused the company of caving to censorship.
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Prison book programs have been sending free books to Texas prisons for years, but recently, they've been told they're no longer allowed to under a Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy they say they've never heard of before.
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Fort Worth ISD has no tentative date for returning pulled books to its district libraries.
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The state’s teachers’ union said in a statement it would stand by the state’s public school teachers who “teach the truth.”
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A federal judge in Austin temporarily blocked a new state law restricting which books are available in school libraries. The state then appealed. But whether or not the law is upheld, efforts to censor what students can read have intensified in Texas.
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House Bill 900 requires book vendors to rate all their materials based on their depictions or references to sex before selling them to schools. Vendors say the law aims to regulate protected speech with “vague and over broad” terms.
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Fort Worth ISD librarians conducted inventory on books for two weeks and 120 books currently are under review to determine how they comply with House Bill 900 — a law that requires districts remove sexually explicit books from libraries and parental consent for some with sexual references.