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 PEN America report found that book bans in public K-12 schools have only continued to intensify in recent years. In the last academic school year, from July 1, 2022, to June 31, 2023 ...

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 ...

The report comes during Banned Books Week ... has also released preliminary data related to censorship, focusing on book bans in public, school and academic libraries between January 1 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.