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PEN America finds new state laws are supercharging school book bans

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PEN America finds new state laws are supercharging school book bans

Sep 23 2024

In a report released today, PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly triple the number from the previous school year, when PEN America recorded 3,362 bans nationwide. PEN officials said that new state-level rules and legislation are the key drivers of the bans, with nearly 8,000 book bans recorded in Florida and Iowa, where two sweeping new laws have broadly targeted books that contain any sexual content.

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