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Libraries are about giving people the freedom to read and think without interference. Still, some taxpayers feel that since their paychecks help fund libraries, they should be able to dictate their uses, potentially limiting access. Are they right? buff.ly/J65PpsP
#Library #Libraries #RightToRead #1stAmendment #Freedom #PublicFunding #PublicSupport #Community #FreedomToRead #BannedBooks
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Reading is the foundation of every child’s education.
Yesterday, the Legislature passed my bill to ensure New York libraries have access to guidance on evidence-based early literacy practices aligned with the science of reading.
We’ve made real progress on literacy reform in New York, but there is still much more to do. Every child deserves the opportunity to become a fluent reader.
#ScienceOfReading #Literacy #RightToRead
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May 22
Who is doing the state and federal @NJGOP @njhsreps @TPUSA @ActualAlexZ @Jax1331 campaigns?
#RightToRead #parentalrights #5756 #Westwood #WhoIsNext?
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Al #SalTo26 in #SpazioArgento, presentazione di #RightToRead edizione 2025: progetto di #CooperazioneInternazionale che sostiene il diritto alla #lettura e alla #istruzione in diverse aree del mondo come #Guinea, #Egitto, #CostaDAvorio e #Senegal. @regionepiemonte
ALT #SalTo26 #Spazio Argento #AssesaoreMaurizioMarrone #GiulioBiino #RightToRead #lettura
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May 15
I have heard from parents as do so many of us in the remedial field about the nightmare the parents face
Complete gaslighting
A war against vulnerable children.
Here’s @JamieMetsala slide from the presentation day of #RighttoRead
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At Bansa Library, books often become the beginning of conversations that travel far beyond their pages. Around the same table, children, young people, and adults come together to listen, question, disagree, reflect, and share experiences from their own lives.
In rural areas, spaces like these become even more important because there are so few places where people across generations can simply gather to think, speak, and learn together. Outside of schools or homes, there are very limited public spaces that encourage open conversations, curiosity, and collective reflection. This is why free community libraries become so important. They create accessible, welcoming spaces where anyone, regardless of age, background, or income, can walk in, belong, and participate. Libraries slowly become much more than rooms with books, they become spaces of dialogue, imagination, confidence, and community.
#FreeLibrariesForAll #RightToRead #BansaCommunityLibrary #AccessToBooks
ALT A group of children, teenagers, and young adults sit together in a circle outdoors at Bansa Library, engaged in a book discussion. Some are seated on bright orange chairs while others sit on benches around a table with books and papers. The gathering takes place beside a brick wall lined with green plants, creating an open and informal community learning space where members from different age groups are listening and sharing ideas together.
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May 11
Right to Read kicked off today with dress like an explorer day! #RighttoRead #CometPride
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May 11
New York's kids deserve #RighttoRead legislation sponsored by @Bobby4Brooklyn @JeremyCooneyROC!
Students deserve literacy informed by the science of reading.
May 7
NEW: Two years after Gov. Hochul unveiled her signature literacy policy, advocates say the findings underscore an urgent need for sweeping literacy reform.
nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/scie…
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For a long time, reading here was tied almost entirely to survival. Books meant textbooks, guidebooks, exam papers, and the pressure to 'study' for marks, jobs, and competitive exams. For many children and young people in villages around Bansa, access to books beyond academics simply did not exist. There were very few spaces where reading could be slow, joyful, curious, or personal.
What we are witnessing now at Bansa Community Library is a quiet but meaningful shift.
Children who once came only looking for study material now sit together turning pages of storybooks, comics, picture books, and novels. They are reading not because someone asked them to, but because they want to know what happens next. Conversations are forming around characters, ideas, and imagination. The library is slowly changing the meaning of reading itself, from a task connected only to exams, into something that can also bring comfort, excitement, wonder, and companionship.
This change may look small in a photograph, but in communities where access to books has always been limited, it is deeply significant. A reading culture does not appear overnight. It grows page by page, circle by circle, child by child.
#FreeLibrary #BooksForAll #RightToRead
ALT A group of children sitting together inside Bansa Community Library, quietly reading books and looking toward a laptop placed on a table. The room is filled with bookshelves, study materials, and colorful chairs, reflecting a shared learning and reading space in a rural community library.
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May 9
“The public library isn’t anyone’s personal bookshelf. Everyone has a right to read, view, or listen to what they choose. And librarians are there to help them find it.” buff.ly/JT6l6c7
#Library #Libraries #Cartoon #Humor #1stAmendment #RightToRead
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So true!
We had #RighttoRead 3 years ago, parents were ecstatic!
It has not panned out!
Still begging to be seen, still distraught with their situation!
IMO the movement was hijacked by a slogan.
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A free community library is never just about books.
It’s where children walk in with curiosity and walk out with confidence. Where stories are read aloud, shared, questioned, and lived together. Where afternoons turn into circles of laughter, quiet focus, and small discoveries that stay. It’s a space where access is not limited by distance, money, or background, where anyone can belong, learn, and imagine more for themselves.
At Bansa Library, this is what a library looks like every day: not silent rooms, but living, breathing spaces of possibility, where a community comes together, one story at a time.
#BansaLibrary #FreeLibrary #RightToRead
#Books #Reading
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What kids see when they search “What is dyslexia?” matters.
Hope matters.
But hope without access isn’t justice.
Dyslexia requires explicit, evidence-based instruction.
Every child deserves to learn to read.
🎥 youtu.be/VQYrXm8W8X4?si=N_90…
#ReadingJustice #RightToRead
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A circle forms, a comic opens, and just like that, the common room of Bansa Library softens into stories. There’s something gentle about this moment: heads leaning closer, eyes following each page, laughter arriving at the same time. The librarian reads, but the story belongs to everyone in the circle. This is how reading begins, not as a task, but as a shared joy. A quiet, growing love for books, held together in small, warm moments like these.
Our comic corner is one such space, where children return, sit a little closer, and find themselves in stories, again and again. We’re deeply thankful to The Kutumb Foundation and Free Libraries Network for making this possible, helping us create a corner where stories are not just read, but felt, shared, and cherished.
#ComicCorner #FreeLibrary #RightToRead
ALT A group of young children sits in a circle on the floor of a colorful community library, gathered closely around a librarian who is reading a comic book aloud. Bookshelves filled with children’s books surround them, and the children lean in with focused, curious expressions as they follow the story together.
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Apr 25
It really was incredible!
In all my years in the reform field and Dyslexia advocacy what was missing was an evidence based conference.
I traveled to NY and other conferences in the U.S. and would return to Canada deflated.
I also think the OHRC RighttoRead report has moved the 💉
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Tá na bláthanna ag tosú ag bláthú, tá na huain ag súgradh sna páirceanna, agus tá an tEarrach san aer! 🌸
Anois an t-am chun dul isteach i do bhrainse leabharlainne is gaire duit agus na leabhair, na seirbhísí agus na gníomhaíochtaí spreagúla go léir atá le tairiscint againn a fháil amach. 📚
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The flowers are starting to bloom, lambs are frolicking in the fields, and Spring is truly in the air! 🌸
Now is the perfect time to spring into your nearest library branch and discover all the exciting books, services, and activities we have to offer. 📚
#FoclóirFriday #SpringIntoStorytime #PreabIsteachSaScéal #RightToRead
@Corkcoco @LibrariesIre @ForasnaGaeilge
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[Reading Revolution Session] 📚
PIRLS 2021, 81% of SA Grade 4s can’t read for meaning, worse than 78% in 2016.
Stats aren’t the full story. We asked WC learners who love reading what must change to fix this.
Their voices 👇🏾 💛🖤
#FixOurSchools #RightToRead #YouthPower
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Apr 20
📚 It’s Right to Read Day!
Celebrate the freedom to read & learn more as the American Library Association releases the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2025.
Libraries support access for all—today & every day. 💙
#RightToRead #NationalLibraryWeek
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📚✨ It’s National Library Week! ✨📚
Libraries are more than buildings full of books—they’re spaces of connection, creativity, freedom, and community. 💡💖
This week, we celebrate the stories that inspire us, the librarians who guide us, and the readers who keep our shelves alive. 🌟
Stop by, check out a book (or five 😉), and join us in honoring the power of libraries!
#NationalLibraryWeek #MoreThanBooks #LibraryLove #RightToRead #ReadAllTheBooks
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At Bansa Library, books don’t always wait on shelves. Sometimes, they travel.
In nearby mazras and villages, where women and children cannot easily reach our physical space, the library finds its way to them. A courtyard, a shaded corner, a borrowed space, for a few hours, each becomes a place to read, listen, and imagine.
Stories are read aloud. Little ones lean in, wide-eyed, asking what happens next. Older children pick up books and read to the younger ones. Women talk, sometimes about the story, sometimes about their day, sometimes about things they've never said out loud before. There's laughter. There are games, antakshari between pages, quick rounds of guess-the-word, silly rhymes that have everyone giggling. Someone always wants to draw. Someone always wants one more story.
These pop-up sessions are small and temporary. But in the middle of an afternoon, in a village that rarely sees books, they quietly open up a whole world, especially for those often left out of reading spaces because of where they live or what their day demands of them.
At Bansa Community Library, we strongly believe that access should never depend on distance. If they can’t come to the library, the library goes to them.
#FreeLibary #LibraryForAll #RightToRead #BooksForAll #BansaPopUpLibrary
ALT A vibrant outdoor community gathering in a rural Indian village setting for a "Bansa Library Pop-Up Session." In the center, a woman sits on a white floor mat, smiling and engaging with a group of young children and women dressed in colorful traditional sarees. They are gathered around a small, portable wooden bookshelf filled with children's books. Three young adults stand behind the group, observing and participating. The background features lush green trees, bicycles parked against a brick wall, and a glimpse of village life with cattle and thatched-roof structures.
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