Students Need Libraries in HISd is a grassroots advocacy group working to support school librarians in Houston Independent School District.
Joined February 2020
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25 Sep 2024
An attempt to ban one book cost the Spring Branch School District in Texas 226 hours of time, divided between sixteen people, and more than $30,000!
bit.ly/4gz55ek via @everylibrary #bannedbooksweek
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25 Sep 2024
Texas has more than twelve hundred school districts and Texas has attempted to ban thousands of books.
Book bans will cost Texas at least 3.6 million dollars per year.
bit.ly/4gz55ek via @everylibrary #bannedbooksweek
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9 Apr 2024
Thank you to all my HISD LIBRARY friends, and other school librarians across the US. Your job is essential to the education of K-12 students. I appreciate my public and academic library friends as well - the library ecosystem works together to provide access to information to ALL
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9 Apr 2024
While yesterday's #eclipse may only have lasted a moment, censorship leaves communities everywhere in the dark. This #RightToReadDay, and every day after, raise your voice and defend the freedom to read. Learn more and take action: uniteagainstbookbans.org/rig…
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18 Feb 2024
I love the artistic approach of this political video. Its message is strong — one of the best political videos I’ve ever seen. Let’s spread it every Democrat is going to love this political ad.
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
17 Feb 2024
The kids are alright?
Texas (438 bans) and Florida (357 bans) have the most book bans, but these kids should give us hope, despite the bans. They know what’s up.
Something DeSantis and Abbott didn’t think about — when kids realize something that will benefit them is being hidden or taken, they find a way.
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
29 Jan 2024
Remove Floyd Mike Miles as Superintendent of Houston Independent School District - Sign the Petition! chng.it/Jc5hjYJCqB via @Change
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29 Jan 2024
ESAs are an unconscionable use of Arizonans' taxpayer dollars that were collected 2support the 90% of students who attend district public schools. The #AZLeg needs to work w/ @GovernorHobbs to return equity to our education system and stop ESAs. #Vouchers for special needs only!
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
29 Jan 2024
ESAs are an unconscionable use of Arizonans' taxpayer dollars that were collected 2support the 90% of students who attend district public schools. The #AZLeg needs to work w/ @GovernorHobbs to return equity to our education system and stop ESAs. #Vouchers for special needs only!
28 Jan 2024
🏫 ICYMI: AZ’s public schools are being forced to cut services, lay off staff, & shut down schools — while the state siphons $900M to private schools via #vouchers.
Read & find out action steps at: bit.ly/Jan29EdReport
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
20 Jan 2024
If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn't make decisions for other parents' children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign & #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/tak…
ALT On a black background is the Unite Against Book Bans logo and the text: Raise your voice. Join the movement. #UniteAgainstBookBans. UniteAgainstBookBans.org.
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
18 Jan 2024
By the way, racism is an "idea contained in a material" as are LGBTQ characters.
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
21 Dec 2023
We are proud partners of Unite Against Book Bans! Join the movement with us at UniteAgainstBookBans.org! @UABookBans #UniteAgainstBookBans
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
The proposed “Fight Book Bans Act” by @RepMaxwellFrost would give school districts up to $100,000 to oppose challenges to educational and library materials.
themessenger.com/politics/ma…
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AASL President-Elect Becky Calzada said librarians work in the "schools' largest classroom" - and much of what they do is never seen by the public. bit.ly/3ReRaPI
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
2 Dec 2023
HB 900 “represents a dangerous attempt on the part of the state to intervene in art and literature, and its chilling effect would severely undermine writers’ creative freedom," says PEN America's Nadine Farid Johnson
Act now to stand with #Texas students: pen.org/stand-with-students-…
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
3 Dec 2023
As the Supreme Court affirmed in Island Trees v. Pico: “the special characteristics of the school library make that environment especially appropriate for the recognition of the 1st Amendment rights of students.”
Stand with Texas students to oppose HB900: pen.org/oppose-texas-hb-900/
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StudentsNeedLibrariesHouston retweeted
20 Nov 2023
Surveys of educators in the 21 states with restrictive educational policies found many teachers too scared to teach. Analyzed together for the first time by PEN America, these studies paint a dark picture of America’s classrooms.
pen.org/the-topics-teachers-…
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