Library books and censorship are among the hottest topics in education, especially when it comes to local elections.
was just last Tuesday, but here we are, facing yet another election day in North Texas. Perhaps the biggest election headlines in Dallas over the past few weeks, and for good reason. The bond money is set to go towards streets and transportation, parks, public safety, economic development and more — all topics of interest to the public.
Similar to the political and ideological battles over school vouchers, gun safety and whether a teacher can say"gay," the subject matter of books in classrooms and school libraries has raged with increasing intensity over the past couple of years. Activist groups such as Moms for Liberty, a conservative outfit, are taking aim at books with LGBTQ themes as well as many stories that look deeply into issues of race and ethnicity.
But not all North Texas school boards have been overtaken by well-funded pro-censorship candidates. Larger, urban school districts, including Dallas ISD, don’t typically see nearly as many candidates with book-banning tendencies, and in 2023, a candidate for the Plano ISD Board of Trustees, Lydia Ortega,Not that Plano is immune to the threats of those parents and activists seeking to remove a diverse range of age-appropriate books from school shelves.
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