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"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America PEN America Reports 200% Surge in Book Bans in 2023-2024, Largely BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Books Skip to main ...
The rise in banned books during the 2023-'24 school year—nearly tripling from 3,362 bans PEN ... the Elkhorn Area School District banned more than 300 books for months on end, PEN America found. ...
There were more than 4,300 book bans across 23 states and 52 public school districts from July 2023 to December 2023, according to a report from PEN America, a nonprofit organization that fights ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
In 2023, PEN America, along with publisher Penguin Random House and several banned authors, and parents, filed suit against the Escambia County School District, claiming that book bans violate Constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection under the law. [43]
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found 5,894 instances of book bans in the U.S. from 2021-2023 across 41 states and 247 public school districts.
There were 3,362 book ban attempts in K-12 schools across the country last school year — 33 percent more than the year before, according to a new report from free expression group PEN America.