U.S. Florida schools pulled hundreds of books last year


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Friday, 15 Nov 2024

NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- School districts in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida axed about 700 books from school libraries in the 2023-2024 school year, according to a Florida Department of Education list.

PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, estimates that 4,561 books have been removed from Florida school libraries since July 2021, The Washington Post reported.

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