Florida’s Department of Education has banned 54 mathematics textbooks from classroom instruction, saying they feature prohibited topics, including critical race theory. That’s more than 40% of all textbooks submitted to Florida for review. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis praised the move, accusing publishers of seeking to indoctrinate students. In response, the head of Florida’s largest teachers’ union demanded transparency into who ordered the book bans and for examples of “objectionable” content.

A report published recently by PEN America found that in the past eight months alone 86 school districts in 26 states banned more than 1,100 titles in classrooms and libraries. Books about Black and LGBTQ+ people were heavily targeted, and the most banned book of the year was “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe, who is a nonbinary author and illustrator.