2023-05-23 00:55:36
BCPS Chief Communications Officer John Sullivan said this video is inaccurate. "This video is not accurate and is simply a false representation. The State has not banned any books in @browardschools. The school shown in the video was updating/refreshing its book inventory." [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(4-0-1) Author
2023-05-23 11:57:48
As reported by local ABC affiliate WPLG, Broward County Public Schools has indeed removed books from school libraries in the wake the Parental Rights in Education Act’s (HB 1557) passage. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-2) Author
2023-05-25 09:55:17
None of these books have been banned; however, numerous political groups have flooded the review process with normal books to push a "book ban" narrative. Gov. DeSantis has called this a "hoax." [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author
2023-05-27 22:05:10
"Spokespeople for Broward County Public Schools and the Florida Department of Education confirmed the books in the video were being inventoried and removed due to their age – not for being 'inappropriate.'" [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-0) Author
2023-05-29 05:21:29
School district director of communications John Sullivan said the video actually shows old books being removed to be replaced with later editions. But after passage of Parental Rights in Education Law, PEN America reports 175 books were so far removed from FL’s public schools [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-0) Author