Most efforts to ban books in Texas schools came from 1 politician and GOP pressure, not parents

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Most efforts to ban books in Texas schools came from 1 politician and GOP pressure, not parents, a Houston Chronicle investigation has found.
The details, from @hdellingermedia and @serrano_alej: https://houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Texas-book-bans-driven-by-GOP-pressure-not-parents-17362170.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium…)

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Most efforts to ban books in Texas schools came from 1 politician and GOP pressure, not parents
The Chronicle’s findings represent one of the clearest assessments to date of the...
5:54 AM · Aug 10, 2022

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Texas-book-bans-driven-by-GOP-pressure-not-parents-17362170.php

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The wave of book reviews and removals that swept across Texas in the last year was driven more by politicians than parents, a Houston Chronicle analysis found, contradicting claims that recent book bans were the result of a nationwide parental rights movement to have more control over learning materials.

The findings, drawn from public information act requests sent to nearly 600 Texas school districts that teach more than 90 percent of the state’s 5.4 million public school students, show there were at least 2,080 book reviews of more than 880 unique titles since the 2018-19 school year. Of those, at least 1,740 reviews occurred during the 2021-22 school year.

Nearly two thirds of those reviews — 1,057 — occurred after state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, asked districts last fall to check their shelves for books on a list he circulated. The books on Krause’s list of roughly 850 titles, predominantly feature LGBTQ+ characters and people of color in main character roles, as well as mentions of racism, the Holocaust, sexual violence, sexuality and abortion.

About a dozen districts account for more than 1,500 of the book reviews, the Chronicle found. Most of the reviewed works remained on shelves, with 269 books removed entirely and 174 instances in which access to titles was made available only to older students. In some cases, districts removed books they deemed out of date but replaced them with more recent titles on similar subjects.

Most districts in the Houston region largely ignored the Krause list or did not conduct reviews because of it.


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[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Torchlight]

2. Presenting Krause's Questional Book List

https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/94fee7ff93eff9609f141433e41f8ae1/krausebooklist.pdf

It's a pdf, and I don't reformat well quickly. I scanned the list and didn't recognize too many of the titles or authors (but then, I haven't been affiliated with YA fiction in 30 years and am really out of the loop).

(I did see and recognize Alan Moore's 'V For Vendetta' on the list (I read the comic in Bush Sr.'s last year in office), and I can understand why conservatives don't want it around, as it accurately illustrates their complicity in their role of denying rights, health, education, and equality long before they affected that role publicly.)

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[crickets]

4. K&R for visibility.

[hedda_foil]

5. Do tell.

[dalton99a]

6. This fucking creep: