The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has recently implemented new standards for school library content amid legal challenges. The new standards are aimed at preventing the presence of obscene content in Texas public school libraries.
The SBOE has provided a model local board policy to assist local educational agencies (LEAs) in reviewing, selecting, and approving library materials. The policy provides procedures to ensure transparency and clear processes for parents to challenge those chosen materials more comprehensively.
The new standards have faced legal challenges from book vendors and publishers who oppose the law’s requirement that vendors rate books based on their sexual content. However, the court never blocked the section of the law requiring new school library collection development standards.
In light of these developments, it is important to ensure that school libraries are places for voluntary inquiry while also ensuring that library materials are reviewed, selected, and approved transparently and comprehensively.
In conclusion, the new standards implemented by the Texas SBOE aim to prevent the presence of obscene content in Texas public school libraries. The SBOE has provided a model local board policy to assist local educational agencies in reviewing, selecting, and approving library materials.
While the new standards have faced legal challenges, the section of the law requiring new school library collection development standards has not been blocked. It is important to ensure that school libraries are places for voluntary inquiry while also ensuring that library materials are reviewed, selected, and approved transparently and comprehensively.
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