We received some great news from Kentucky this morning: a reconsideration committee in Marion County voted to keep John Green’s highly acclaimed first novel Looking for Alaska on its high school shelves last night. The book received a complaint from a parent who not only refused to let his child read the book, but determined it was "filth" and good [...]
We’re proud to partner with the Human Rights Campaign’s Welcoming Schools initiative in a nationwide day readings of I Am Jazz, one of the most challenged books in the country.
The prevailing narrative in Rainier, OR, is that nine-year-old kids were forced to look at “explicit” books in their school library. But things aren’t always what they seem.
A Michigan school board voted last night to keep The Bluest Eye in its AP curriculum.
Another year, another challenge to Looking for Alaska. This time, a parent in conservative Marion County, Kentucky, is challenging its use in a 12th grade classroom.
It looks like a Tennessee high school will have a gay-straight alliance club after all. But do the district's new rules for all clubs go too far?
A high school production of 'The Producers' is altered after parents complain about swastikas on stage.
An award-winning graphic novel was removed from high school libraries in Florida after the parent of a third-grader complained. The district thankfully reversed its decision.
Students are speaking out against legislation that would require parental notification of the teaching of "sexually explicit content" in public schools.
What happens when a cop complains that student artwork is “propaganda?”
In Florida, a seemingly minor change to a policy regarding how schools handle book challenges could have far-reaching implications.
A local TV news outlet is whipping up a frenzy in Florida schools over an award-winning graphic novel.
We're down to a dozen! Here are the semifinalists in this year's Youth Free Expression Film Contest.
Complaints about a lesson that included Arabic calligraphy caused an entire school district in Virginia to close down.
A reconsideration review committee that met on December 3 decided in a 7-4 vote to retain copies of Gayle Foreman’s award-winning young adult novel Just One Day in Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public School libraries.
A conservative law firm threatened to sue a Wisconsin school over a reading and discussion of the picture book I Am Jazz. The district canceled the November 23 reading.
Two books targeted for removal from instruction at Rumson-Fair Haven High School have been retained.
A censorship dispute in Portage, Indiana, was over quickly after it began thanks to the quick action of students.
An ad hoc committee in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, is again targeting a piece of literature for its language. Are they going too far?
Parents in Omaha are fired up about proposed changes to the sexual education curriculum. Are they trying to keep their kids "pure," or are they calling for censorship?
Banning a John Green novel didn't work out. But the superintendent's new idea to rate library books would create enormous problems.
Congratulations to the students, parents, and teachers in Lumberton, New Jersey, who have proven that grassroots action makes a difference.
A New Jersey superintendent made an ad hoc decision to pull Looking for Alaska from classroom libraries, in violation of district policy.
Parents in Georgia are outraged over lessons that teach the history of Islam. And the state is taking the complaints seriously, removing a program guide called "Respecting Beliefs."
In the spirit of Banned Books Week, we bring you five stories from the field. A few of them will make shake your head, while the others will have you pumping your fist.
Four months after a parent launched a challenge against The Kite Runner in Asheville, NC, the saga seems to finally have come to an end.
Can a trustee be trusted when he has tried to censor in the past? Residents of Downers Grove were asking that questions when the mayor nominated Arthur Jaros, Jr. to the village’s Library Board.
At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children's books from a public library, one mom's comments stole the show.
Would-be censors in Texas lose in their effort to remove LGBT children's books from the public library. But the fight in Hood County may be far from over.
The Buncombe school district has decided--once and for all--that one parent's objection to the novel The Kite Runner shouldn't prevent other students from reading it.
A student project on police and community relations angers local cops-- and school administrators respond by removing it.
Good news: The Coeur d'Alene school board voted to keep John Steinbeck's classic novel in the classroom.
Don’t you hate it when one person ruins it for the rest of us? Teachers of Asheville, your school district has your back. So do we.
Can one parent effectively get a book banned from an entire classroom? That's exactly what's happening in one North Carolina town.
A grandparent tries--yet again--to remove Sherman Alexie's award-winning novel from a school in North Carolina.
Theater students get word that their show is canceled due to inappropriate content. But once the news hits the local TV, the administration changes its tune.
