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Texas Lawmaker, Parents Battle School District Over Sexual Content in Libraries

Texas Lawmaker, Parents Battle School District Over Sexual Content in Libraries
Fairfax County parents and residents protested against a library holiday display featuring the Bible next to "Gender Queer" and "Lawn Boy"—the two challenged books returned to Fairfax County school libraries after the Thanksgiving holiday—outside Dolley Madison Public Library in McLean, Va., on Dec. 11, 2021. Lisa Fan/The Epoch Times
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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10/27/2022|Updated: 6/19/2023
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A Texas state representative and local parents say they’ve battled mostly “woke” school board trustees for almost a year to remove sexually explicit books from their city’s school libraries.

“It’s been a very long story and a very big fight,” State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Republican from Frisco, told The Epoch Times.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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