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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 policy they say they've never heard of before.
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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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Members of St. Marys five-person city commission, all of whom are members of an extreme Catholic religious sect, have threatened to pull the lease of the public library if they don't remove all LGBTQ+ and other "socially divisive" books from the shelves. Their efforts have drawn a warning from the ACLU of Kansas.
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What started with strap-on dildos at school board meetings has turned into gubernatorial letters to state agencies.
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Book challenges are up about 60% over the past year. Free speech advocates say many books are being challenged by parents and community members under the guise that they’re promoting critical race theory.
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Elected republican leaders in the state say they are concerned about censorship, but actions silencing other voices paint different picture.
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House Bill 20’s primary Senate sponsor argued that social media platforms are the modern equivalent of “common carriers” and should be treated as such in terms of protecting freedom of speech.
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Two years later, Kansas lawmakers are still debating a controversial sex ed poster, reports The Kansas City Star. The poster was titled “How do people…