The Alberta government has temporarily paused the implementation of its standards on sexually explicit content in school libraries, saying the directive needs revision after Edmonton Public Schools released a book removal list that the province says didn’t reflect the policy’s intended purpose.
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides made the announcement on Sept. 2, a few days after Edmonton Public Schools released an internal list of 200 books it intended to ban.
The list was leaked and shared online on Aug. 28 and included titles such as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” and books by authors like Alice Munro and Ayn Rand….