School librarians, educators, and families gathered at a town hall in Raleigh to advocate for increased funding for school libraries and to oppose proposed legislation aimed at banning certain books.| WRAL.com
In the latest censorship legislation tracker, North Carolina moves to charge librarians with a Class 1 misdemeanor, and a Florida bill seeks to make it easier to remove books and punish schools, while Nevada and Colorado legislators take steps to protect collections.| School Library Journal
Quarterly and Year-End reports from New Business Items passed by NCAE's Representative Assembly.| www.ncae.org
This report on book bans in the 2023-24 school year documents how censorial trends have continued to ripple beyond the shelves.| PEN America
A North Carolina school board has taken 41 books off the shelves in their libraries to review them for student-appropriate content, including iconic fictional titles such as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegaut and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.| The Free Speech Center
