Heading Into Election Season, Access to Controversial Books Gets Spotlight
Podcast: Education in FocusPublished On: Tue Sep 19 2023
Description: One issue Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias put in the national spotlight during testimony to a U.S. Senate committee this week was that of access to controversial books. The Democratic statewide official promoted the Illinois measure he spearheaded to withhold taxpayer-funded grants to public and school libraries that he said “ban books.” Meanwhile others argue that this is not an issue of censorship but of discretion.
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