The Texas Senate passed a bill that would give parents access to their child's public school library records Thursday. The bill also creates a process for...
The Senate passed the bill on a party line vote 18-12 with one Republican absent. It now heads to the House for consideration.– requires school boards to create local library advisory panels with a majority of members made up of parents.
Those boards would make recommendations on any books a school district wants to add or remove from libraries. They would also oversee the complaint process for parents either challenging a book or appealing a decision to remove a book. The parent advisory boards would resemble state-required local district health advisory councils, which make recommendations on sexual education curriculum.
Books could not be removed solely for having content that is adverse to a local library council’s or school board’s general social viewpoint, under the bill. But they could be removed on grounds of obscenity and adult content ironed out in federal case law and FCC guidelines.. Philip Jankowski has covered government, politics and criminal justice in Texas for 13 years. He previously worked for the Austin American-Statesman, the Killeen Daily Herald and the Taylor Press.
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