Pennsylvania HB860 aims to prevent censorship in public school entities by prohibiting the removal of instructional and voluntary inquiry materials.
Pennsylvania HB860 seeks to protect the freedom of access to diverse information in public schools by prohibiting the removal of instructional and voluntary inquiry materials without following a formal process. The bill mandates that public school entities and the Department of Education provide a censorship complaint form on their websites for reporting instances of soft censorship. It outlines a process for handling complaints, including the establishment of educational resource material review committees to evaluate challenged materials.
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