Pennsylvania District School Board Rejects Book During Heated Meeting | TRIB Live
The Pine-Richland (PA) School Board voted against incorporating Angel of Greenwood, a novel set during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, into its ninth-grade curriculum during an often hostile meeting that stretched nearly to midnight. Board members, administrators, and several public attendees traded barbs over the district’s ongoing controversy surrounding the board’s proposed library policies and book policies more generally. Several speakers pressed the board to approve Angel of Greenwood, including the high school Language Arts chair.

Florida Book Challenges Extend Reach from Schools to Public Libraries | Tampa Bay Times
The Pasco County (FL) library advisory board began discussing how it might revise its policies to ensure books that some county commissioners deemed “disturbing” are not so readily available for young children. Many of the books focused on LGBTQIA+ themes and characters. Commissioners asked for changes, basing their effort in part on the Florida Department of Education’s rules relating to book challenges and removals.

Tennessee District Schools Book Banning Upsets Free Speech Advocates: 'We Are Banished' | Daily News Journal
The Rutherford County (TN) School Board banned six books, which were among the 10 books facing obscenity challenges that school librarians reviewed and recommended for return to libraries. The majority of the board decided to return four of the books, along with requirements that parents provide opt-in permission for three. The 10 reviewed books are among 160 that the school board decided to pull from libraries in November for the pending reviews from librarians to determine if the books violate obscenity laws.

Four More Books Recommended for Removal from South Carolina School Libraries, Classrooms | ABC25
The South Carolina State Department of Education’s Instructional Material Review Committee recommended the removal of four additional books from school libraries and classrooms. The books are Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, Flamer by Mike Curato, and Push by Sapphire. The committee’s chair says all four books contain explicit sexual material. The full board will meet on February 4 and vote on whether or not the books will be removed.

Minnesota District Superintendent Removes Book from Elementary Library Shelves Citing Nudity | KTTC
Rochester (MN) Public Schools (RPS) superintendent Kent Pekel ordered that a book be removed from the elementary school media center shelves. His recommendation came despite the review committee voting 9-1 in favor of keeping the book on the shelves. Pekel said in the meeting and his memo that his decision to remove The Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson is “based solely upon the depiction and celebration of public nudity in illustrations on two pages of the book. I believe that the depiction of public nudity makes the book inappropriate for the open shelves of a media center in an elementary school where students as young as kindergarten can access the book without adult supervision or guidance.”

Online Censorship in Schools is ‘More Pervasive’ Than Expected, New Data Shows | CalMatters
Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds that schools subjectively and broadly block students from information online.