Bad Takes: Texas' attacks on libraries are attacks on valuable public institutions

Recent religiously motivated campaigns in the Lone Star State seek to ban books and saddle libraries with onerous censorship regimes.

next year, pleading a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall. Half the librarians at the similarly sized Keller ISD outside Fort Worth, won't have jobs next year. Closer to home, San Antonio ISD, which boasts 45,000 students,superintendent repurposed dozens of libraries into dual-use disciplinary centers.

as"a magical, real-life Ms. Frizzle," and was moved to tears upon finding out the woman who helped her 8-year-old daughter start a school newspaper would soon be unemployed.

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