After abandoning a set of controversial standards proposed last year, the board will take a new approach to revising its ...

Commissioners to consider new standards through a rulemaking process that could take most of 2026. Meantime, the proposed ...

A sea change is afoot among school librarians. At the national conference of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)—November 9–11 in Phoenix—the association will launch its revised ...

Local educators are evaluating what effect the state schoolboard’s adoption of library standards for all California publicschools will have on their district. The new standards define what students ...

School librarians in Vermont won a standards victory early this month when the Secretary of State’s Office approved Education Quality Standards that emphasize the essential role of school librarians ...

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TEXAS -- The Texas Education Agency released statewide standards Monday for how school districts should remove and prevent "obscene content" from entering Texas public school libraries. The video ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The State Board of Education on Wednesday is expected to approve new rules that school libraries must follow when procuring books, acting on a new law designed to prohibit explicit ...

Berks County commissioners are putting local libraries that fail to meet state standards on notice. The board voted Tuesday, June 15, to send letters to the 23 members of the Berks County Public ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seeking to bridge two library standards often viewed as competitive, the Accellera standards organization has formed a technical subcommittee, Harmony, to define a common library ...

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