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Parents and community members press APS to review explicit materials in school libraries
Summary
Multiple public speakers told the board they had found sexually explicit or violent materials in APS libraries and urged the district to create a formal content-review policy and remove or restrict access to books they described as inappropriate for students.
Dozens of public forum commenters urged the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education to review and restrict materials that speakers described as pornographic or otherwise inappropriate for children in school libraries and curricula.
Several speakers named specific titles and cited research they said links exposure to explicit content with harm. Damara Andrade said parents…
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