SC's Book Censorship Regulation Gets National Attention

Updated to add: Weaver’s book challenge regulation did ultimately pass (essentially by accident). A link to the reg is included below.

The national press cycle on school-related issues tends to skip right over South Carolina on its way from Florida further north, so in a way it was great to see Popular Information covering the impending passage of SC Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver’s book censorship regulation. (And in another way, this is of course bad news because the clock is running out on ways to stop the regulation— which threatens, mostly through lazy, but very expensive, writing— to ban all kinds of book, from widely-recognized classics to popular Young Adult literature.)

You can read the regulation by clicking here. 

If no further action is taken, the regulation, as written, will go into effect tomorrow (June 25, 2024). (Update: it did go into effect, and as of late July 2024, districts are already pulling books from the shelves in a guessing game of what m if not be…