A parent of an elementary school student complained about a graphic novel in the school library. Is that any reason to restrict the book in the same district's high school libraries?
At Franklin County High School in Tennessee, some students and parents are outraged by the very existence of the Gay-Straight Alliance.
A local TV news outlet is whipping up a frenzy in Florida schools over an award-winning graphic novel.
Sometimes the real threat to free speech doesn't come from campus activists but administrators.
After a censorship controversy over 'American Idiot' grabbed headlines, NCAC and other free speech groups offer advice on how the school can turn this into a learning experience, and protect students' artistic freedom going forward.
We're down to a dozen! Here are the semifinalists in this year's Youth Free Expression Film Contest.
Scholastic's decision to cease distribution of a controversial children's book raises some fundamental questions about free speech and self-censorship.
A series of proposed changes to the sex ed curriculum in Omaha, Nebraska generated intense opposition late last year, with hundreds of angry parents packing a meeting to denounce plans to teach students about gender identity, emergency contraception, and abortion. Now it is up to the board to decide how and what students will learn.
After two visitors complained about a painting, a small gallery space in Vero Beach told an artist to remove the piece.
If a New Jersey high school is really treating a student's tweets as harassment, they need to cease investigating her words and apologize to her instead.
Two new bills are designed to empower ideologically-driven activists to shape what is taught in Florida's classrooms.
Are young people not so hot on free speech these days? Maybe. But it's not a new thing, and it's not just young people.
Free speech zones. Book banning. Facebook's nudity rules. The hysteria over 'Islamic indoctrination.' Let's review just some of the threats to free speech in 2015.
Did a dispute over phallus props in a theater production cost an adjunct professor his job?
Complaints about a lesson that included Arabic calligraphy caused an entire school district in Virginia to close down.
"I love that child... she's the one I write for."
The reasons a private school in Pennsylvania offered for not teaching 'Huck Finn' are precisely the reasons it should be taught.
A parent in Etiwanda, California is complaining that a celebrated children's book about tolerance and diversity is not "appropriate" for a kindergarten classroom.
A conservative legal group's threat to sue a school over the planned reading of a book about a transgender child is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the First Amendment applies to public schools.
Good news! The Couer d'Alene school board defended the freedom to read after a committee voted to reject Jhumpa Lahiri's novel for inclusion in a 12th grade English class.
The decision by San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to deny a permit to display Bay Area artist Victor De La Rosa's posters about community concerns over gentrification raises serious First Amendment concerns.
Is there a new sex panic taking place in academia? Sexual expression is once again under attack as harmful to women, and possibly as a form of sexual harassment.
The removal of artworks by incarcerated Native American activist Leonard Peltier from a Washington state government building raises serious First Amendment concerns.
Two books targeted for removal from instruction at Rumson-Fair Haven High School have been retained.
