The Republican-majority Texas State Board of Education voted to request that the Texas Legislature pass a law granting them authority to decide which school library books are considered sexually explicit, rather than leaving this responsibility to local school districts. The board members argued that this would reduce the burden on the state’s 1,200 school districts and provide a solution to a recent court ruling halting the enforcement of a law requiring booksellers to rate books for sexual content before selling them to school libraries.
