By the end of the 2023-2024 school year, PEN America had recorded 10,046 instances of book bans, with over 4,000 unique titles removed from shelves across the country. Florida and Iowa currently ...

It would give school boards, rather than librarians, the final say over new books. A bill authored by state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, would create advisory groups largely made up of parents ...