The Department of Education has dismissed 11 complaints regarding “book bans” the federal agency received during the Biden administration, it announced Friday. The department said it ended former

The department said it would relinquish its role investigating schools that had received civil rights complaints after removing books dealing with sexual and racial identity.

Free speech advocacy group PEN America notes that books are "under profound attack" in the U.S., adding it counted over 10,000 book bans in public schools in the 2023-24 school ye

President Trump’s Department of Education announced Friday that it will eliminate its so-called “book ban coordinator” position and dismiss numerous complaints related to the removal of “age-inappropriate” and “sexually explicit” literature from public schools.