Monthly Archives: September 1996

New Hampshire Teacher Fired for Teaching “Unsuitable” Books Reinstated by School Board

By |2017-06-08T11:20:00-04:00September 1st, 1996|Blog|

Penny Culliton, a New Hampshire teacher who fought back against attempts to smear and ultimately fire her, has been reinstated by the Mascenic School Board following a decision of the state's Public Employee Labor Relations Board. The Labor Board upheld an arbitrator's previous award that had turned Culliton's dismissal into a one-year suspension.

The American People Now Okay in Ohio

By |2019-03-07T23:11:40-05:00September 1st, 1996|Censorship News Articles|

  Issue 63, Fall 1996 National news spotlighted the rejection by the Hudson, Ohio Board of Education of The American People, a multicultural history textbook recommended by educators for high school use. But the Board's reversal of its action seems to have gone unnoticed outside of the state. Under pressure from a local religious group, the board first voted not [...]

Salo Returns to Cincinnati

By |2019-03-07T23:11:40-05:00September 1st, 1996|Censorship News Articles|

After a long and excruciating censorship legal battle, officials in Cincinnati have been thwarted again. (Cincinnati is where an art museum and its director were prosecuted for exhibiting the photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. A jury acquitted them.)

Penny Culliton Reinstated

By |2019-03-07T23:11:39-05:00September 1st, 1996|Censorship News Articles|

Penny Culliton, a New Hampshire teacher who fought back against attempts to smear and ultimately fire her, has been reinstated by the Mascenic School Board following a decision of the state's Public Employee Labor Relations Board. The Labor Board upheld an arbitrator's previous award that had turned Culliton's dismissal into a one-year suspension.

Censorship Snuffs Out Spirit of Education

By |2019-03-07T23:11:27-05:00September 1st, 1996|Censorship News Articles|

In a Walker-Ames lecture at the University of Washington in 1956, Gerald W. Johnson, a Baltimore journalist and author, said this in a discussion of academic freedom: "There is one loyalty oath that every man in the teaching profession is compelled to take and the penalty for its violation is not the legal penalty of treason, but the damnation of his immortal soul...."

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