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Education October 8, 2025 - 3:39 pm

One Kansas school district banned a book in 2024, per national report

by Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector

The Gardner Edgerton school district was the only one in the state that banned a book during the 2024-2025 school year, according to an annual report cataloguing bans and restrictions across the country.

State News May 10, 2022 - 10:27 am

Woman wants Kansas library to get rid of children’s book about boy who dresses in mom’s clothes

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

An Oakley woman wants to ban a children’s book from the public library because it contains drawings of a naked boy who gets dressed in his mother’s clothes. The author questioned the woman’s sense of humor, called her un-American and rejected her concern that his book contains LGBTQ content.

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