Texas Freedom to Read Project

🚨Register to testify (in Austin) by Friday at 5PM!🚨

Visit the State Board of Education Meetings Testimony Registration page to register (even if you aren’t positive you can make it! You can always email your testimony if you end up being unable to attend, or can’t stay until your name is called!):

https://sboe.texas.gov/about-tea/leadership/state-board-of-education/sboe-meetings/public-testimony-registration

🚨 Deadline for TEA comments on the Mandatory Reading Lists: MONDAY, June 15!🚨

Review the proposed mandatory reading lists and file your comments with TEA here:

https://tea.texas.gov/laws-and-rules/sboe-rules-tac/proposed-state-board-education-rules

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Austin ISD to cut librarian positions amid budget crisis Austin ISD will split librarians across some campuses after previously saying the positions would not be cut.

GOOD news out of Montgomery County (Texas) for once! Grateful for your courage and willingness to call out censorship, Rhea!

Ousted library director wins $475,000 settlement in discrimination lawsuit against Montgomery County | Houston Public Media The lawsuit filed last year by Rhea Young alleged she was fired in retaliation for refusing to segregate and limit access to books containing LGBTQ+ themes or ideas.

🚩 The state is reportedly threatening to disband the SBOE if they refuse to pass TEA’s reading list. 🚩

Pretty sure this is NOT what democracy looks like.

Limited state government and local control, in Texas, are dead. 🪦

“Not in our Texas.” 🫶🫶🫶

New in town 🙌 (and by “in town,” I mean at the Deer Park ISD board meeting protesting book bans!)

‼️Tomorrow, Salado!‼️

Edit 4/26 late evening; ICTX will NOT be at SPL tmrw. We had originally planned to go to the Salado Library for a book banning protest, but they won’t be voting on books tomorrow after all--they voted last week at the special meeting.

Instead of being at the Belton courthouse or Salado library tomorrow, [Indivisible Centex] will be supporting the STOP TEMPLE DATA CENTERS group working to stop the data centers being built in Temple.

Their protest is from 5pm-8pm, we’ll be there from 5:30pm-6:30pm. It’s on the corner of HK Dodgen and 31st street.

Sorry for any inconvenience, there’s just so much going on and we are trying to provide support wherever we can.

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We will be at the Salado Public Library TOMORROW 4/27 at 4:30PM! See you there 🫡

Stop Book Bans! Join us to defend the freedom to read as the SPL Board of Trustees review book challenges.

Salado Public Library Board Meeting
Monday, April 27th @ 5:00PM

A person's beliefs should not matter more than the general public's right to make choices for themselves [and their children]. We respect parents' rights to monitor and regulate their own child's access to materials, but do not believe those rights extend to anyone else.

If you are able, please attend this meeting and register to give public comment. Support the board in their previous decisions to NOT ban books.

Together, we can defend the freedom to learn, the right to information, and the joy of reading for every person in our community.

All are welcome—bring your energy, your signs, and commitment to protecting our libraries. Participants of all backgrounds are encouraged to attend. ✊

You are still more than welcome to go speak at the library board meeting! Sign up to speak @ https://tinyurl.com/5de7dbcb

Sign ups will close 30 minutes before the meeting starts. You will be able to sign up online or in person.

No. Round Rock ISD is not “replacing the Holy Bible with the Koran.” 🙄

Islam is just the latest boogeyman being used by the same politicians, political activists, and pressure groups who have been trying to assert control over our state and country for the past 5+ years. They’ve lost steam on “vaccines/masks” and “CRT” and “ LGBT” and “DEI,” so they’re moving on to “Sharia Law.”

Don’t fall for the lies and fear mongering.

See it for what it is- and call 👏🏻 it 👏🏻out.👏🏻 These attacks and accusations being hurled at Muslims and Islam are hateful and Islamophobic.

🕵🏼Fact check provide by Texas Freedom to Read Cofounder, .strong