Passage of HB 1069 comes as last year’s Don’t Say LGBTQ law wreaks havoc on Florida’s schools & drives educators & families from the state
"Censorship is the desperate rear-guard action of a movement that has already lost the fight for hearts and minds"
“You can't censor a student newspaper you no longer have.” Ending student newspaper programs is becoming a more common form of censorship
‘Answers in the Pages’ a ripped-from-the-headlines summer treat for kids, adults
The initiative will give access to hundreds of thousands of e-books & audio books including those that have been impacted by recent book bans
Nearly 1,600 books in more than 700 libraries/systems across the nation involving race, gender & the LGBTQ community, were targeted
The Fox network show Fox & Friends also invited anti-critical race theory activists to defend the LGBTQ book bans
Sen. Brad Zaun said he supported charging teachers who allow students to read “obscene” books, including LGBTQ+ themed books, with felonies
“We are writing to ask you to reject calls to remove Maia Kobabe’s ‘Gender Queer’ and Jonathan Evison’s ‘Lawn Boy’ from schools libraries”
Josiah Poynter, a senior told the board: “Inclusion matters to young people. This is why we must have this book in our school’s library