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“The American Ministry of Education ends the book by Biden Ban Hoax.”

This title of a recent press release from the Federal Agency sparked an outcry by defenders of freedom of expression and teachers who dispute that the administration of President Joe Biden exaggerated the omnipresence of books in the country’s schools. In fact, educators say they have been subject to censorship for years.

Among them, Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who spoke of books, in particular by black authors and queer, served shelves of the library which she supervises at Chapin high school in Chapin, in South Carolina. “The deletion of information sponsored by the State is not a hoax,” she said during a recent call announcing a complaint Against his state for his study restrictions.

“There is no way to deny that our state and school districts have thwarted mine and the efforts of my colleagues to provide the highest quality education to our students without calling us in a blatant way,” said Mayes. “We have experienced what we say that we have experienced. We have witnessed what we say that we have been witnesses. »»

THE Legal Defense Fund (LDF), a legal and racial non -profit organization, has submitted its federal trial in matters of civil rights against South Carolina only a few days after the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Ministry of Education suggested in a press release of January 24 according to which the claims of prohibition of books are baseless and that the school districts simply deleted the books which are “inappropriate, sexually explicit or obscene ”. The agency said it reversed Biden’s boards of directors that reading restrictions created a hostile learning environment for students. He rejects 11 pounds prohibiting complaints, rejecting six pending and eliminating the coordinator of the book of the agency responsible for investigating the school districts accused of censorship.

Craig Trainor, interim assistant secretary for civil rights, has developed the moves as supporting local control and the rights of parents on the program. The agency said its lawyers found that books had not been censored but deleted in concert with community members and “common sense process by which to assess and suppress inappropriate age materials”.

The announcement of the Ministry of Education led to an immediate decline – South Carolinians who fight to give students access to inclusive teaching materials to defenders of freedom of expression in organizations such as Pen America and the American Library Association (ALA).

Pen America declared in a press release that he had documented nearly 16,000 cases of prohibition of books nationwide since 2021. The previous year, President Donald Trump has signed a decree “To fight against stereotypes and offensive and anti-American scapegoats” and the teaching of “division concepts” linked to racism and sexism in federal labor or the armed forces. This ordinance has led most of the States to introduce legislation that has used similar language to restrict discussions and reading equipment on race or sex in schools and other institutions funded by the government.

Call Book Banning A “Canular”, said Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program for Pen America, “is alarming and disdainful towards students, educators, librarians And the authors who have first -hand visation experiences in school libraries and classrooms. »»

The number of books prohibited in the past three years rivals the number of people prohibited during the McCarthy era of the 1950s, according to Pen America.

“This censorship organized by conservative groups mainly targets books on breed and racism by color authors and also books on LGBTQ + subjects as well as those of older readers who have sexual references or discuss sexual violence“Said Meehan.

ALA encouraged people concerned about the ban on books to attend library and school board meetings to support students access to a wide range of reading equipment.

“”Books prohibitions are real“, The organization said in a press release. “Ask students who cannot access the literary classics required for the college or parents whose children cannot consult a book on gay penguins in their school library. Ask the school librarians who have lost their jobs to protect the freedom to read. Although a parent has the right to guide the reading of their own children, their beliefs and their prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children. »»

The ALA also warned Trump officials: “The new administration is not above the American Constitution.” But in a new decree, Trump has promised to end what he described as a “radical indoctrination” in schools from kindergarten to 12th year by threatening to revoke federal funding of schools that teach gender identity, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. He also announced his intention to prioritize patriotic education, but we do not know how his plans will affect public schools across the United States.

In South Carolina, Mayes is one of the many complainants – including the scientist and author Ibram X. Kendi, the representative of South Carolina Todd Rutherford and the South Carolina State Conference – appointed to the federal trial of civil rights filed by Bailey Law Firm LLC and the Legal Defense Fund. They claim that the state has continually practiced censorship, largely through a budgetary provision Prohibit funds from the Department of Education State to support the discussion of concepts related to race or sex. Several of the complainants are women, including educators and parents.

A spokesperson for the South Carolina Ministry of Education qualified the trial of “merit” in a statement to the 19. The agency “will continue to seek significant opportunities to build bridges through the divisions, to honor the richness of our common history and to teach it with integrity, while guaranteeing full compliance with the law of the State,” he said.

The plaintiff Mary Wood, an English school teacher from the secondary school, faced a reprimand and calls for his dismissal after having taught the Memoirs of Ta-Nehisi Coates “between the world and me” in 2023. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, the book explores what it is to be a black man and maintains that systemic racism is woven in the fabric of American life. Two students in his class have declared to the school officials that the book had made them ashamed of their whiteness, indicating that Wood had violated the budgetary provision prohibiting the use of programs which make “an individual … feeling discomfort, guilt, anxiety or any other form of psychological distress because of his race or his race or his sex”.

Lexington-Richland school district officials ordered Wood to refrain from teaching the book, but its new director finally allowed him to teach him with some warnings, in particular by offering another point of view and stressing that students could withdraw from reading.

“The work of a teacher is much more than providing education by heart,” said Wood, explaining why she felt obliged to participate in the trial against her state. “We are there to promote an environment where students can think critically, challenge ideas, engage in civilian discourse and develop their curiosity. Their brilliant future depends on the exploration of the perspectives with which they are not familiar, seeing themselves in literature and receiving the truth of American and world history. Books offer the possibility of creating connections and developing empathy. »»

But the censorship of books in his class led him to “lose hope” as a educator, Woods said. With “Between the world and me” and Kendi Book“Stamped: racism, anti-racism, and you”, co-written by Jason Reynolds, the school districts of Southern Carolina have targeted books by queer black authors such as “All the boys of George Mr. Johnson are not blue”. The State also used the budgetary provision to justify the abolition of African-American studies AP for secondary students during the 2024-25 school year.

A spokesman for the South Carolina Ministry of Education said that the State recognizes that “African-American history is our common history. The commitment of Southern Carolina to teach tragedies and triumphs of the American trip remains unchanged, as indicated in our long -standing educational standards. »»

In 2015, a white armed man killed nine blacks at the historic church of the mother Emanuel Ame to Charleston, SC The mass shot motivated by racily led to conversations on the racial history of the State and to the officials voting to remove the Confederate flag of the State house. The criticisms of the budgetary provision of South Carolina indicate that the regulations make it difficult for educators today to conduct similar discussions on the divided past of the State.

“This vague budgetary provision has been used on several occasions to censor education or educational tools on subjects linked to racial and gender inequalities,” said Amber Koonce, assistant lawyer for the legal defense fund. “This case concerns the unconstitutionality of a vague and discriminatory law. This case concerns illegal censorship focused on biases and the importance of students’ right to receive information. »»

“The American Ministry of Education ends the book by Biden Ban Hoax.”

This title of a recent press release from the Federal Agency sparked an outcry by defenders of freedom of expression and teachers who dispute that the administration of President Joe Biden exaggerated the omnipresence of books in the country’s schools. In fact, educators say they have been subject to censorship for years.

Among them, Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who spoke of books, in particular by black authors and queer, served shelves of the library which she supervises at Chapin high school in Chapin, in South Carolina. “The deletion of information sponsored by the State is not a hoax,” she said during a recent call announcing a complaint Against his state for his study restrictions.

“There is no way to deny that our state and school districts have thwarted mine and the efforts of my colleagues to provide the highest quality education to our students without calling us in a blatant way,” said Mayes. “We have experienced what we say that we have experienced. We have witnessed what we say that we have been witnesses. »»

THE Legal Defense Fund (LDF), a legal and racial non -profit organization, has submitted its federal trial in matters of civil rights against South Carolina only a few days after the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Ministry of Education suggested in a press release of January 24 according to which the claims of prohibition of books are baseless and that the school districts simply deleted the books which are “inappropriate, sexually explicit or obscene ”. The agency said it reversed Biden’s boards of directors that reading restrictions created a hostile learning environment for students. He rejects 11 pounds prohibiting complaints, rejecting six pending and eliminating the coordinator of the book of the agency responsible for investigating the school districts accused of censorship.

Craig Trainor, interim assistant secretary for civil rights, has developed the moves as supporting local control and the rights of parents on the program. The agency said its lawyers found that books had not been censored but deleted in concert with community members and “common sense process by which to assess and suppress inappropriate age materials”.

The announcement of the Ministry of Education led to an immediate decline – South Carolinians who fight to give students access to inclusive teaching materials to defenders of freedom of expression in organizations such as Pen America and the American Library Association (ALA).

Pen America declared in a press release that he had documented nearly 16,000 cases of prohibition of books nationwide since 2021. The previous year, President Donald Trump has signed a decree “To fight against stereotypes and offensive and anti-American scapegoats” and the teaching of “division concepts” linked to racism and sexism in federal labor or the armed forces. This ordinance has led most of the States to introduce legislation that has used similar language to restrict discussions and reading equipment on race or sex in schools and other institutions funded by the government.

Call Book Banning A “Canular”, said Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program for Pen America, “is alarming and disdainful towards students, educators, librarians And the authors who have first -hand visation experiences in school libraries and classrooms. »»

The number of books prohibited in the past three years rivals the number of people prohibited during the McCarthy era of the 1950s, according to Pen America.

“This censorship organized by conservative groups mainly targets books on breed and racism by color authors and also books on LGBTQ + subjects as well as those of older readers who have sexual references or discuss sexual violence“Said Meehan.

ALA encouraged people concerned about the ban on books to attend library and school board meetings to support students access to a wide range of reading equipment.

“”Books prohibitions are real“, The organization said in a press release. “Ask students who cannot access the literary classics required for the college or parents whose children cannot consult a book on gay penguins in their school library. Ask the school librarians who have lost their jobs to protect the freedom to read. Although a parent has the right to guide the reading of their own children, their beliefs and their prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children. »»

The ALA also warned Trump officials: “The new administration is not above the American Constitution.” But in a new decree, Trump has promised to end what he described as a “radical indoctrination” in schools from kindergarten to 12th year by threatening to revoke federal funding of schools that teach gender identity, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. He also announced his intention to prioritize patriotic education, but we do not know how his plans will affect public schools across the United States.

In South Carolina, Mayes is one of the many complainants – including the scientist and author Ibram X. Kendi, the representative of South Carolina Todd Rutherford and the South Carolina State Conference – appointed to the federal trial of civil rights filed by Bailey Law Firm LLC and the Legal Defense Fund. They claim that the state has continually practiced censorship, largely through a budgetary provision Prohibit funds from the Department of Education State to support the discussion of concepts related to race or sex. Several of the complainants are women, including educators and parents.

A spokesperson for the South Carolina Ministry of Education qualified the trial of “merit” in a statement to the 19. The agency “will continue to seek significant opportunities to build bridges through the divisions, to honor the richness of our common history and to teach it with integrity, while guaranteeing full compliance with the law of the State,” he said.

The plaintiff Mary Wood, an English school teacher from the secondary school, faced a reprimand and calls for his dismissal after having taught the Memoirs of Ta-Nehisi Coates “between the world and me” in 2023. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, the book explores what it is to be a black man and maintains that systemic racism is woven in the fabric of American life. Two students in his class have declared to the school officials that the book had made them ashamed of their whiteness, indicating that Wood had violated the budgetary provision prohibiting the use of programs which make “an individual … feeling discomfort, guilt, anxiety or any other form of psychological distress because of his race or his race or his sex”.

Lexington-Richland school district officials ordered Wood to refrain from teaching the book, but its new director finally allowed him to teach him with some warnings, in particular by offering another point of view and stressing that students could withdraw from reading.

“The work of a teacher is much more than providing education by heart,” said Wood, explaining why she felt obliged to participate in the trial against her state. “We are there to promote an environment where students can think critically, challenge ideas, engage in civilian discourse and develop their curiosity. Their brilliant future depends on the exploration of the perspectives with which they are not familiar, seeing themselves in literature and receiving the truth of American and world history. Books offer the possibility of creating connections and developing empathy. »»

But the censorship of books in his class led him to “lose hope” as a educator, Woods said. With “Between the world and me” and Kendi Book“Stamped: racism, anti-racism, and you”, co-written by Jason Reynolds, the school districts of Southern Carolina have targeted books by queer black authors such as “All the boys of George Mr. Johnson are not blue”. The State also used the budgetary provision to justify the abolition of African-American studies AP for secondary students during the 2024-25 school year.

A spokesman for the South Carolina Ministry of Education said that the State recognizes that “African-American history is our common history. The commitment of Southern Carolina to teach tragedies and triumphs of the American trip remains unchanged, as indicated in our long -standing educational standards. »»

In 2015, a white armed man killed nine blacks at the historic church of the mother Emanuel Ame to Charleston, SC The mass shot motivated by racily led to conversations on the racial history of the State and to the officials voting to remove the Confederate flag of the State house. The criticisms of the budgetary provision of South Carolina indicate that the regulations make it difficult for educators today to conduct similar discussions on the divided past of the State.

“This vague budgetary provision has been used on several occasions to censor education or educational tools on subjects linked to racial and gender inequalities,” said Amber Koonce, assistant lawyer for the legal defense fund. “This case concerns the unconstitutionality of a vague and discriminatory law. This case concerns illegal censorship focused on biases and the importance of students’ right to receive information. »»

“The American Ministry of Education ends the book by Biden Ban Hoax.”

This title of a recent press release from the Federal Agency sparked an outcry by defenders of freedom of expression and teachers who dispute that the administration of President Joe Biden exaggerated the omnipresence of books in the country’s schools. In fact, educators say they have been subject to censorship for years.

Among them, Ayanna Mayes, a librarian who spoke of books, in particular by black authors and queer, served shelves of the library which she supervises at Chapin high school in Chapin, in South Carolina. “The deletion of information sponsored by the State is not a hoax,” she said during a recent call announcing a complaint Against his state for his study restrictions.

“There is no way to deny that our state and school districts have thwarted mine and the efforts of my colleagues to provide the highest quality education to our students without calling us in a blatant way,” said Mayes. “We have experienced what we say that we have experienced. We have witnessed what we say that we have been witnesses. »»

THE Legal Defense Fund (LDF), a legal and racial non -profit organization, has submitted its federal trial in matters of civil rights against South Carolina only a few days after the Office of Civil Rights of the United States Ministry of Education suggested in a press release of January 24 according to which the claims of prohibition of books are baseless and that the school districts simply deleted the books which are “inappropriate, sexually explicit or obscene ”. The agency said it reversed Biden’s boards of directors that reading restrictions created a hostile learning environment for students. He rejects 11 pounds prohibiting complaints, rejecting six pending and eliminating the coordinator of the book of the agency responsible for investigating the school districts accused of censorship.

Craig Trainor, interim assistant secretary for civil rights, has developed the moves as supporting local control and the rights of parents on the program. The agency said its lawyers found that books had not been censored but deleted in concert with community members and “common sense process by which to assess and suppress inappropriate age materials”.

The announcement of the Ministry of Education led to an immediate decline – South Carolinians who fight to give students access to inclusive teaching materials to defenders of freedom of expression in organizations such as Pen America and the American Library Association (ALA).

Pen America declared in a press release that he had documented nearly 16,000 cases of prohibition of books nationwide since 2021. The previous year, President Donald Trump has signed a decree “To fight against stereotypes and offensive and anti-American scapegoats” and the teaching of “division concepts” linked to racism and sexism in federal labor or the armed forces. This ordinance has led most of the States to introduce legislation that has used similar language to restrict discussions and reading equipment on race or sex in schools and other institutions funded by the government.

Call Book Banning A “Canular”, said Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program for Pen America, “is alarming and disdainful towards students, educators, librarians And the authors who have first -hand visation experiences in school libraries and classrooms. »»

The number of books prohibited in the past three years rivals the number of people prohibited during the McCarthy era of the 1950s, according to Pen America.

“This censorship organized by conservative groups mainly targets books on breed and racism by color authors and also books on LGBTQ + subjects as well as those of older readers who have sexual references or discuss sexual violence“Said Meehan.

ALA encouraged people concerned about the ban on books to attend library and school board meetings to support students access to a wide range of reading equipment.

“”Books prohibitions are real“, The organization said in a press release. “Ask students who cannot access the literary classics required for the college or parents whose children cannot consult a book on gay penguins in their school library. Ask the school librarians who have lost their jobs to protect the freedom to read. Although a parent has the right to guide the reading of their own children, their beliefs and their prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children. »»

The ALA also warned Trump officials: “The new administration is not above the American Constitution.” But in a new decree, Trump has promised to end what he described as a “radical indoctrination” in schools from kindergarten to 12th year by threatening to revoke federal funding of schools that teach gender identity, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. He also announced his intention to prioritize patriotic education, but we do not know how his plans will affect public schools across the United States.

In South Carolina, Mayes is one of the many complainants – including the scientist and author Ibram X. Kendi, the representative of South Carolina Todd Rutherford and the South Carolina State Conference – appointed to the federal trial of civil rights filed by Bailey Law Firm LLC and the Legal Defense Fund. They claim that the state has continually practiced censorship, largely through a budgetary provision Prohibit funds from the Department of Education State to support the discussion of concepts related to race or sex. Several of the complainants are women, including educators and parents.

A spokesperson for the South Carolina Ministry of Education qualified the trial of “merit” in a statement to the 19. The agency “will continue to seek significant opportunities to build bridges through the divisions, to honor the richness of our common history and to teach it with integrity, while guaranteeing full compliance with the law of the State,” he said.

The plaintiff Mary Wood, an English school teacher from the secondary school, faced a reprimand and calls for his dismissal after having taught the Memoirs of Ta-Nehisi Coates “between the world and me” in 2023. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, the book explores what it is to be a black man and maintains that systemic racism is woven in the fabric of American life. Two students in his class have declared to the school officials that the book had made them ashamed of their whiteness, indicating that Wood had violated the budgetary provision prohibiting the use of programs which make “an individual … feeling discomfort, guilt, anxiety or any other form of psychological distress because of his race or his race or his sex”.

Lexington-Richland school district officials ordered Wood to refrain from teaching the book, but its new director finally allowed him to teach him with some warnings, in particular by offering another point of view and stressing that students could withdraw from reading.

“The work of a teacher is much more than providing education by heart,” said Wood, explaining why she felt obliged to participate in the trial against her state. “We are there to promote an environment where students can think critically, challenge ideas, engage in civilian discourse and develop their curiosity. Their brilliant future depends on the exploration of the perspectives with which they are not familiar, seeing themselves in literature and receiving the truth of American and world history. Books offer the possibility of creating connections and developing empathy. »»

But the censorship of books in his class led him to “lose hope” as a educator, Woods said. With “Between the world and me” and Kendi Book“Stamped: racism, anti-racism, and you”, co-written by Jason Reynolds, the school districts of Southern Carolina have targeted books by queer black authors such as “All the boys of George Mr. Johnson are not blue”. The State also used the budgetary provision to justify the abolition of African-American studies AP for secondary students during the 2024-25 school year.

A spokesman for the South Carolina Ministry of Education said that the State recognizes that “African-American history is our common history. The commitment of Southern Carolina to teach tragedies and triumphs of the American trip remains unchanged, as indicated in our long -standing educational standards. »»

In 2015, a white armed man killed nine blacks at the historic church of the mother Emanuel Ame to Charleston, SC The mass shot motivated by racily led to conversations on the racial history of the State and to the officials voting to remove the Confederate flag of the State house. The criticisms of the budgetary provision of South Carolina indicate that the regulations make it difficult for educators today to conduct similar discussions on the divided past of the State.

“This vague budgetary provision has been used on several occasions to censor education or educational tools on subjects linked to racial and gender inequalities,” said Amber Koonce, assistant lawyer for the legal defense fund. “This case concerns the unconstitutionality of a vague and discriminatory law. This case concerns illegal censorship focused on biases and the importance of students’ right to receive information. »»