The advocacy group PEN America, along with Penguin Random House, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the school district and board in Escambia County, Fla., challenging decisions to restrict or remove books from school libraries.
Reached for comment about the lawsuit and the board’s vote to terminate Smith’s contract, Cody Strother, the communications coordinator for Escambia County Public Schools, responded in an email: “Unfortunately, we are unable to make comment on potential pending litigation.”
For many children, school libraries are their only means of accessing books, Nossel said. “Their families may not have the resources to go out to a bookstore or be ordering from Amazon. There are also kids for whom certain books might not be the parents’ choice, but might be something that a child wants to explore, and school has always been a place for that.”
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