IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. A FEDERAL JUDGE HEARD A REQUEST TODAY TO BLOCK IOWA’S SO-CALLED BOOK BAN LAW ONCE AGAIN. THE LAW CREATED RESTRICTIONS FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES ON AGE APPROPRIATE MATERIALS.

NEW. AT NOON THIS AFTERNOON, THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FINALIZED RULES FOR A LAW THAT WOULD KEEP SOME BOOKS OUT OF CLASSROOMS. SF 496 REQUIRES SCHOOLS TO REMOVE BOOKS THAT CONTAIN DESCRIPTIONS ...

The state has confirmed the K-6 LGBTQ ban does not apply to library books because the statute only affects mandatory curriculum. Opponents say that’s inconsistent with the state’s arguments ...

Two Idaho teenagers, a handful of authors, a tiny public library, and the nation’s largest publishers are suing the state of Idaho, pushing back against HB170 – the state’s book ban that ...

The Iowa Board of Education has unanimously approved rules for an embattled 2023 law requiring staff to remove books that feature sex acts from schools. Iowa educators have waited for more than a ...

Trump’s Department of Education called the suggestion that rightwingers are trying to ban book a “hoax.” Idaho’s Republican-led legislature passed House Bill 710 last year. The law ...

(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — Book publishers and advocates for the rights of LGBTQ+ students in Iowa Thursday urged a federal judge to resurrect an injunction blocking enforcement of ...

An Arkansas librarian who was fired for refusing to censor children's books has claimed her First Amendment rights were violated in a newly filed lawsuit. Patty Hector, 64, was the director of ...

A long-running legal battle over Iowa’s school book ban took another turn Thursday with opponents and lawyers for the state arguing their case before a federal judge. Lawyers for a book publisher that ...

A long-running legal battle over Iowa’s school book ban took another turn Thursday with opponents and lawyers for the state arguing their case before a federal judge. Lawyers for a book ...

Amazon is reversing a ban on a book that is critical of transgender ideology and will now allow the work to be sold nearly four years after it was removed from the platform. In a statement posted ...

With recently introduced North Dakota Senate bill 2307, librarians could face a class B misdemeanor if a book with sexually suggestive material is able to be viewed by a minor, leading to questions ...