Leander ISD has become a local battleground in conservatives' war against honest conversations about gender, sexuality, and race in schools.
Five of the Leander ISD school board's seven seats are up for grabs this election, and most of the candidates are ready to ban some more bookshas become a local battleground in conservatives' nationwide war against honest conversations about gender, sexuality, and race in schools. Five of the seven seats on the LISD Board of Trustees are up this November, and for several candidates, book banning and moral panic are at the heart of their campaigns.
In 2021, after a lengthy conflict over what books should be available in LISD libraries and on student reading lists, the district pulled 11 books from the shelves, mostly writings by women on gender inequality and gender violence. A study byshowed Texas led the nation in school book bannings, with 801 different titles pulled from school shelves in 2021.
Sanders is not the only candidate in his Place 1 race to make such a pledge, and at least one and sometimes two contenders in each of the five seats up for election fully endorse the nationwide campaign against"pedophilia" and"sexualizing children" by allowing them to read books about sexual minorities.
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