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Saint Francis visitor urges board to restore school board decision-making on book reviews
Summary
A community member asked the St. Francis Area Schools board to restore final decision authority over challenged books to the locally elected board and reviewed the district's nonconcurrence timeline after several books were removed under policy 606.5.
A visitor to the Feb. 10 St. Francis Area Schools school board meeting urged the board to restore local board authority over book challenges and to reconsider the district's use of an external website and review process for first-stage decisions.
The visitor, Ryan Curac, speaking on behalf of Progress of Education Minnesota Saint Francis, told the board the current process removes the board's role and places final decisions or early filtering on an external website and committee rather than at the locally elected board level. "We don't even have a say in what happens at that website or how those decisions are made," Curac said. "We could arbitrarily wake up tomorrow and all of the modifications to the…
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