compared to prior years (27%), the report found. Since 2021, PEN America says it has counted close to 16,000 instances of book bans in public schools. "This crisis is tragic for young people ...

The free expression group says that from July-December of last year, it recorded 4,349 instances of book bans across 23 states and 52 public school districts. The report says more books were ...

Public schools and libraries across the ... censorship advocacy goals," PEN America said in its report. The dramatic increase in book bans was largely a result of state laws, which have made ...

the report says 40% of those bans listed happened in Florida Does it seem like there are a lot of books getting challenged and banned in public schools in Florida? PEN America and other advocates ...

A new report estimates that over 10,000 bans ... will be released in the upcoming months to accompany a public Index of School Book Bans. Most of these bans occurred in states already eliminating ...

Hanover County Public Schools banned more books from libraries ... Statewide, 121 books were prohibited, the report said. Only Florida (4,561), Iowa (3,732), Texas (538) and Wisconsin (408 ...

The Sunshine State led the nation in school book bans for the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new report released Friday. There were 4,561 instances of book banning in Florida public school ...

Nov. 1 (UPI) --More than 10,000 books were banned in public schools nationwide during the 2023-2024 school year, marking a "dramatic" 200% increase over the previous year, PEN America said Friday.

In two separate reports released Monday during Banned ... during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools. The group previously documented 3,362 instances ...

The association tracks attempts to censor books and materials in public ... TODAY that the group tracks bans through school board minutes, local news stories. and reports from organizational ...