The request came from a local pastor who is part of a group that trains people to “defend their freedom and liberty.” Other faith leaders have pushed back.
The Mission school district in the Rio Grande Valley received a request to remove 676 books from its libraries from a local pastor., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.McALLEN — On May 17, with just one week to go until the end of the school year, the superintendent of the South Texas Mission school district received an email with a list of 676 books a group of local pastors believed were “filthy and evil.
Later that evening, Deputy Superintendent Sharon A. Roberts asked the district's director for instructional technology and library services, Marissa I. Saenz, to look into removing them.Read the emails that show the Mission school district in South Texas handled a request to remove more than 600 books from its libraries.
Now at the dawn of a new school year, a coalition of Rio Grande Valley faith leaders are denouncing the effort to remove books from South Texas school libraries. "We don’t believe that a religious organization should exert decision making power over our public schools or any public body," the religious leaders said.
Ultimately, the Mission school district did not remove any books, the district told the Tribune late last week. The school district assured that no books had been reconsidered, restricted, or removed at this time.
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