Texas public schools banned or restricted access to more books than any other state the...
was driven more by politicians than parents, contradicting claims that recent book bans were the result of a nationwide parental rights movement to have more control over learning materials.
“This is largely because teachers and librarians in several states have been directed to catalog entire collections for public scrutiny within short timeframes, under threat of punishment from new, vague laws,” the report reads. “Frisco ISD is one of the districts that put Texas on the map as the state with the most instances of book bans,” said Meehan. “That district had a little bit of everything. There were administrative decisions that led to books being challenged and Rep. Jared Patterson. All of that put Frisco at a high number of books being banned either temporarily or permanently.”
Meehan said it’s becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate which challenges were the result of political action.
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