The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has filed investigations in the last two districts where Jeremy Glenn has worked.
In a recording published by ProPublica, Glenn instructed school librarians to remove dozens of books pertaining to gender and sexuality.We're in the midst of our summer membership campaign, and we have until August 25 to raise $5,500. Your contributions are an investment in our election coverage – they help sustain our newsroom, help us plan, and could lead to an increase in freelance writers or photographers. If you value our work, please make a contribution today to help us reach our goal.
“First of all, it's idiocy, but second of all, they're targeting books that specifically share LGBTQIA+ narratives and the narratives of BIPOC individuals,” Daniels told the. “They're targeting these narratives of students that are marginalized and ostracized and basically saying their identity is too filthy to be in the school library.’”
The district does have its own history with book banning (and civil rights complaints, which were brought to the national spotlight in the eponymous podcastto read books deemed too controversial for schools. While Carroll ISD says the district does not have a book banning policy,for review by a committee to determine whether the literature is “pervasively vulgar” or unsuitable for learning.
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