Censorship in Texas

From Jordan Smith's CBLDF.org article entitled "Texas School Investigated by Office for Civil Rights After Books Pulled":

Granbury ISD, a district roughly 60 miles west of Dallas, is under federal investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after 131 books were removed from the school library in January of 2022.

Before the start of the semester last year, the superintendent asked librarians to remove books that didn’t align with the conservative community. Graphic novels swept up in this removal included Jerry Craft’s New Kid and Class Act, Raina Telgemeier’s Drama, a collection about famous women entitled No Girls Allowed, and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd [...].

This investigation by the OCR is particularly notable because it is the first time the federal government has become involved in the recent school bans and challenges outside the House Committee on Oversight hearing. The fact that it has gotten to this point speaks to the escalation of book challenges in the United States.

To read the entire article, click HERE.