The current battle over libraries doesn’t tell the larger truth about decades of disinvestment from both parties.
by library and free speech advocates; the Missouri legislature’s reasoning may be different from Eric Adams’s or Cory Booker’s, but the outcome is the same. Unequal access to school library resources and services didn’t begin with Governor Abbott’s takeover of Houston schools and it won’t end with Democratic legislative control. What’s required is commitment across the political spectrum to expanding public institutions so that they can better meet the needs of the people they serve.
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