Using Civil Rights as a Pretext, Biden’s Education Department Seeks Control Over Content in School Libraries

The White House has signaled that federal interference in the affairs of local school districts is not going to be an isolated incident in the Biden administration.

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President Biden and the education secretary, Miguel Cardona, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. AP/Evan Vucci

President Biden is using the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to go where America’s executive branch has rarely, if ever, ventured before — trying to control what books local school districts make available to their students in their libraries.

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