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Missouri is one of a growing number of places where government funding is being deployed as the newest weapon in the fight over books. Beginning May 30, a new state rule could deny state funding to libraries over books deemed inappropriate for young readers — although it's not clear how it will be enforced.
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Missouri library leaders say a plan by state legislators to strip state funding for public libraries across the state would weaken rural libraries.
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Representatives were racing to beat a Friday deadline to get bills out of the chamber, with about two months left in the spring legislative session.
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A new Missouri law made it a crime to provide minors with sexually explicit visual material, leading librarians across the state to remove anything from their collections that they thought could be considered criminal.
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Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is proposing a library rule about age-appropriate reading materials and events that could affect state funding to public libraries if they don’t comply.
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The visits from law enforcement didn’t result in any actions, but they highlight the potential stakes of Missouri’s new law criminalizing certain books in schools.
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Two students in the district, which covers 90 square miles of St. Charles County, had sued over the policy, saying it violated their First Amendment rights.
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Parents and lawmakers across the nation are pushing to ban books in schools. Many of the challenged books are by Black or LGBTQ authors. St. Louis-area students are determined to read banned materials to better understand Black history.
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Are there books that contain ideas so crucial to understanding the world that it's actually dangerous not to read them? KCUR reached out to Kansas City's biggest book-readers and change-makers to find out what titles they'd put on such a list. Here's what they said.