RECENT ARTICLES
Schools update policy on challenging library materials
SharePORTLAND — After a slight uptick in informal challenges to the content of books found in Portland schools, the Board of Education has updated its policy to be more community focused.Challenges can now only be made only “from within the community” and will not be accepted from groups outside of Portland or the state, said Meghan Rooks, librarian at Lincoln and Lyman Moore middle schools and one of the school district’s library coordinators.The district has had only three or four informal challenges and no formal challenges in the five years Rooks has been working in Portland, but the...…SharePORTLAND — After a slight uptick in informal challenges to the content of books found in Portland schools, the Board of Education has updated its policy to be more community focused.Challenges can now only be made only “from within the community” and will not be accepted from groups outside of Portland or the state, said Meghan Rooks, librarian at Lincoln and Lyman Moore middle schools and one of the school district’s library coordinators.The district has had only three or four informal challenges and no formal challenges in the five years Rooks has been working in Portland, but the...WW…
- Total 1 items
- 1