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Between July 1, 2022, and June 31, 2023, the national freedom-of-speech organization recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries — an increase of 33% ...
Outcome. Banning of thousands of books from school libraries in many states. Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders ...
Pat Turner, 1978 Kennewick Woman of the Year, has died at age 89. She was a co-founder of the Columbia Basin Badger Club, which conducts forums on local, state and international issues.
The Kern High School District ( KHSD) is a public high school system headquartered in Bakersfield, California that serves portions of the County of Kern located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. As of 2023, the Kern High School District serves over 43,000 students [2] [3] and 3,600 employees as of 2007. [4]
Banned books and proposed restrictions on library materials have surged across the US within the last school year, with coordinated campaigns launching hundreds of attempts to censor and restrict ...
Fairfax School District is a public school district in unincorporated Kern County, California, just outside of Bakersfield. It was formed May 6, 1891. The district is made up of four schools teaching kindergarten through eighth grade. History. In 1891-1892, the district's first year, the average daily attendance was 8 pupils.
Edward R. Jagels (born March 26, 1949) is a former American prosecutor and was Kern County, California’s longest-sitting District Attorney, holding the office from 1983 to 2010. During this time, he prosecuted some notorious cases of wrongful convictions, and engaged in what is now acknowledged widely to have been a pattern of prosecutorial ...
A federal lawsuit based on Island Trees School District v. Pico – identified by the lawsuit as Board of Education v. Pico – was filed against the Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board in May 2023. Banning of books by school leaders from various ISD around Texas have seen a growth in recent years.