{"id":1972726,"date":"2023-07-14T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/librarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools\/"},"modified":"2023-07-14T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T07:20:10","slug":"librarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/librarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden, the Librarian-In-Chief, proposes an unlawful federal library code for public schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flibrarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972726&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Librarian-in-Chief: Biden&#8217;s Assault on Parental Rights<\/h2>\n<p>Just call him the librarian-in-chief. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-supreme-court-decide-fate-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-2023-06-30\/\">yet another<\/a> gross abuse of executive authority, President Joe Biden is wielding the power of his Department of Education to stop parental efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chelsea-clinton-dragged-for-defending-sexually-explicit-books-for-kids\/\" title=\"Chelsea Clinton Dragged For Defending Sexually Explicit Books For Kids\">remove sexually explicit books<\/a> from public school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s his latest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nsjonline.com\/article\/2021\/10\/us-attorney-general-directs-fbi-to-investigate-parents-protests-of-school-boards\/\">string of moves<\/a> meant to bully parents and other concerned citizens into silence when it comes to what kids learn in public schools and, in this case, when they should be exposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/masterpiece-cakeshop-christian-baker-on-trial-again-this-time-sued-by-transgender-activist\/\" title=\"Masterpiece Cakeshop Christian Baker On Trial Again: This Time Sued By Transgender Activist\">sexually explicit material<\/a>. But the notion that the federal government has any authority to veto a school district\u2019s decision to protect students from pornographic content belongs in the library\u2019s fantasy section.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The Biden administration\u2019s latest assault on parental rights<\/h3>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s latest assault on parental rights began with an investigation of Forsyth County Public Schools (FCPS), outside of Atlanta, over the district\u2019s review of school libraries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/librarian-in-chief-joe-biden-dreams-up-illegal-federal-library-code-for-public-schools\/\" title=\"Joe Biden, the Librarian-In-Chief, proposes an unlawful federal library code for public schools.\">flag age-inappropriate sexual material<\/a> for removal. The school district expressly and categorically limited the scope of this review to books containing \u201cobviously sexually explicit or pornographic content.\u201d No one who reads the relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/do-these-books-belong-public-school-libraries-you-judge-opinion-1802689\">excerpts<\/a> of these books can seriously dispute that their graphic descriptions of nudity, oral sex, sexual assault, and other sexual behavior meet the district\u2019s reasonable standard of content that is inappropriate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/katie-porter-is-going-after-congressional-millionaires-financial-disclosures-show-shes-one-of-them\/\" title=\"Katie Porter Is Going After Congressional Millionaires. Financial Disclosures Show She\u2019s One Of Them.\">school-age children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though the review process focused exclusively on sexual content and ended with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forsythnews.com\/news\/education\/seven-eight-banned-library-books-approved-return-forsyth-school-libraries\/\">return<\/a> of nearly all of the books under inspection to school library shelves, the Education Department\u2019s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) nevertheless opened an investigation into whether the district\u2019s book review had created a \u201chostile environment\u201d based on race and sex that the school district had unlawfully failed to remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than invite federal sanctions, FCPS cut short this investigation by entering into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/ocr\/docs\/investigations\/more\/04221281-b.pdf\">resolution agreement<\/a> with OCR. One particularly concerning provision of that \u201cvoluntary\u201d agreement requires the school district to issue a statement reassuring students \u201cthat the District strives to provide a global perspective and promote diversity\u201d in curating its library catalog \u2014 despite the fact that no federal civil rights law mandates such acts of worship at the altar of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On June 8, the White House made clear that the FCPS matter was not an isolated investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/06\/08\/fact-sheetbiden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-protect-lgbtqi-communities\/\">announcing<\/a> that OCR will appoint a new \u201ccoordinator\u201d to warn state and local education agencies that heeding parents\u2019 calls to remove sexually explicit books from school libraries could trigger the agency\u2019s enforcement authority, including the withholding of federal funding.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>OCR&#8217;s enforcement wheels are already turning<\/h3>\n<p>OCR\u2019s enforcement wheels are already turning in its investigation of Granbury Independent School District in North Texas over that district\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thetexan.news\/u-s-education-department-investigates-granbury-isd-for-library-book-removals\/\">removal<\/a> of sexually explicit school library books. Granbury, a conservative town of 11,000, makes an easy target for the Biden administration. The FCPS agreement serves as the template to force Granbury and other school districts throughout the country to abide by OCR standards on the content of books they must make available to schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s scheme to impose a school library code on the nation suffers from at least one major flaw: He has no legal authority to pursue it. Federal civil rights law doesn\u2019t forbid school districts from deciding not to offer graphic sexual content on their library shelves. In fact, as my organization pointed out in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dfipolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DFI-Letter-FCPS-Resolution-Agreement-05.25.2023.pdf\">letter<\/a> to OCR, the law that established the department in 1979 specifically <em>prohibits<\/em> OCR from policing such decisions, denying the federal agency any authority \u201cover the selection or content of library resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather, Congress expressed its intent to reserve to state and local governments substantial discretion over education policy, including school library offerings, recognizing that \u201cin our Federal system, the primary public responsibility for education is reserved respectively to the States and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-public-schools-to-require-weekly-covid-tests-regardless-of-vaccination-status\/\" title=\"L.A. Public Schools To Require Weekly COVID Tests Regardless of Vaccination Status\">local school systems<\/a> and other instrumentalities of the States.\u201d The Biden administration ignores at its peril these vital, constitutionally based guardrails intended by Congress to constrain the department from becoming a national school board.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Education Department\u2019s illegal interference in school library decisions is calculated to intimidate parents and school districts that want to ensure children do not read graphic sexual content at school. The real civil rights violation at issue here is OCR\u2019s impermissible chilling of First Amendment rights regarding what books are appropriate for public school students. The president\u2019s claimed authority to silence concerned parents and restrain school districts from curating library books is nothing more than fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, known as the librarian-in-chief, is misusing executive authority by using the Department of Education to prevent parents from removing sexually explicit books from public school libraries. This is part of his ongoing pattern of intimidating parents and concerned citizens, aiming to limit their influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2207,"featured_media":1972727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}