This report on book bans in the 2023-24 school year documents how censorial trends have continued to ripple beyond the shelves.| PEN America
PEN America sought to further understand the impacts of this censorship – the identities and genres being erased from public schools.| PEN America
Randi Weingarten, president of America’s second-largest teachers union, didn’t even wait for Banned Books Week to begin before posting on X: “Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class - THIS Speaks for itself!!!” Just the latest example of “book banning” in our schools, it seemed.| The Heritage Foundation
We need to engage in free debate about books without denying readers the opportunity to read these books and come to their own conclusions.| PEN America
In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries.| PEN America