Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth graders attend a presentation in a school library in Rensselaer County in 2024. The state Education Department doesn't ...

It’s Banned Book Week, and New York City is not immune from ever-increasing attempts to curtail freedom of speech and ban books. Recognizing this threat, in June the Legislature passed The Freedom to ...

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...

Every school in the state is required to have a library, but for more than a decade, districts have cut back on librarians and sometimes quietly closed school libraries, as well. It is happening far ...