Today on Your Call: Who decides what kids can read in school?

Ali Budner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000

On today's Your Call we’ll talk about how schools decide what students can read in their libraries and classrooms and what happens when books are prohibited. In Arizona, the Tucson Unified School District recently banned a long list of books in the Mexican American Studies program from their schools including Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. So what are the criteria for school reading? And who should make these decisions? And how does this affect freedom in public education? Join us at 10 or email