This Week in Book Challenges
Printer-friendly versionHere is an update on the latest book challenges for the week of March 13, 2024
- Anderson County, SC expands library board to ban books; immediately attacks trans themes
- Buncombe County, NC board of education rejects 9-book challenge
- Florida legislature passes bill limiting non-parent/guardian residents of county to one challenge per month
- Knox County Schools, TN considers bans of queer and feminist books
- Laramie, WY, where Matthew Shepherd was murdered for being queer, bans 8 of 9 challenged books, many of them with LGBTQ+ themes
- Mentor, OH district retains two books following challenge
- Nebraska Board of Education book ban proposal fails
- Northview, MI Public Schools board denies appeal to 8 failed challenges
- Prattville, AL library board has new policies, continues to target LGBTQ+ books
- Princeton ISD, TX bans 100+ books pending review
- Redlands, CA school district discusses book banning policy, sees heated discussion in 3/12 meeting
- Staten Island, NYC school found throwing away hundreds of new books on LGBTQ+, BIPOC themes; city to investigate
- Tennessee Senate passes awful book ban bill, HB 843; House has one more chance to respond due to clerical error
- West Prairie, IL Board of Education jeopardizes funding over right to ban books