Georgia: “Cobb County School District Removes 6 More ‘Explicit’ Books From School Libraries, Total Now 26”
From WSB-TV:
At Thursday’s Cobb County School Board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Chris Ragsdale announced six more books would be removed the school district’s library system.
A statement shared from the school district described the action as the district removing “more sexually explicit books from schools.”
The accompanying statement from the superintendent said it was another step in the district’s ongoing process of removing books with sexually explicit and/or graphic content from the school system’s libraries.
With the removal of the latest six books, the total now taken out of circulation for CCSD is at 26.
Learn More, Read the Complete Article (Includes List of Books)
See Also: Complete Statement From Cobb Country School District
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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