GOP Book Bans and Democratic Divestment Both Created Crisis for Public Libraries

On July 31, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) announced plans to repurpose 28 libraries into “discipline centers,” sparking widespread protest. Mayor Sylvester Turner denounced the plan for producing “a school district of the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’,” where students in low-income schools will have “no place to go to their school library, to study, to check out a book…

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