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Residents urge Howard County Board to preserve diversity, oppose book bans
Summary
Speakers at public forum told the Board of Education they support diversity, equity and inclusion in schools and urged the board to retain existing review processes for curriculum and library materials.
Several community members used the board's public forum on March 27 to urge Howard County Public School System leaders to preserve diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and to resist external pressure to ban books or otherwise curtail materials used in classrooms and libraries.
Arinze Ifeuche, introduced himself as a resident of Oakland Mills and a representative of Dads for Diversity, and said the school system should “continue to support efforts to make all…
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