🇺🇸📚Des milliers de livres jugés "offensants", "pornographiques" sont retirés des bibliothèques publiques et scolaires aux Etats-Unis. Face aux ultra-conservateurs, des élèves, parents, démocrates et républicains modérés organisent la contre-attaque radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

Censors use overly broad obscenity laws to target disfavored viewpoints, that’s why when it comes to obscenity, a narrow definition is best!

The Library Advisory Board for Corpus Christi Public Libraries is recommending changes to the Collection Development Policy that will require children under the age of 18 to receive a library card that includes restrictions set by the public library- *not their parents.*

Notice the title. Listen to the number of times “ban” is used to describe when laws restrict access to something in school. Do you think a massive amount of time will be spent arguing it’s not a ban because phones are accessible outside school? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Our children - Florida’s future - deserve better. They need us to elect people that will make evidence-based decisions. Universal vouchers are unsustainable and weaken our communities by diverting public funds away from our neighborhood schools to for-profit education.

Can we make another rule, “don’t mess with public education” and have the same bipartisan effort to protect education access for Florida’s children?

Good evening, I’m at Sarasota Schools for this evening’s board meeting, where it will vote to approve advertisement of a new AI policy. Also: Chairwoman Karen Rose is not present. She hasn’t been at any meetings since she lost her re-election on Aug. 20. Follow my thread here:

HB 1069 requires districts to acquire state approval of local reproductive health and HIV/AIDS curriculum prior to delivery. That change went into effect on July 1, 2023 and the state has yet to approve submitted materials. See reporting by Judd Legum. popular.info/p/why-thousand…

1. Tens of thousands of Florida students are getting NO SEX EDUCATION at all, thanks to the policies and incompetence of the DeSantis administration Popular Information has obtained internal documents that reveal the disfunction Follow along for details 🧵

I was honored to be the guest on the first episode of Laura Wenus's new podcast "Doom Resisters." Dive into our conversation about resisting book bans and the dismantling of public education: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doo…

Lee County’s school library access data shows again that a majority of parents want full access to the school library and trust professionals to make curation decisions. Unfortunately, Lee’s default access is not full, so 1/3 of students are restricted due to parent inaction.

The Escambia School Board Attorney is arguing the law requires that they haphazardly (“not mechanically”) apply their policy when deciding outcomes to library objections, and the people are without a means to question their basis for deviation? wftv.com/news/local/jud…

The Brevard Board received a letter from National Coalition Against Censorship about their potentially unconstitutional decision to prohibit student access to Sasaki and Miyano: ncac.org/news/school-bo…