{"id":421907,"date":"2026-08-31T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421907\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:42:50","slug":"as-school-libraries-are-pushed-to-remove-books-a-west-texas-district-stands-by-its-library-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/421907\/","title":{"rendered":"As school libraries are pushed to remove books, a West Texas district stands by its library council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A debate over books in Texas\u2019 public school libraries picked up new attention last week, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick threatened legislative action unless Texas school districts pull books from the shelves that he and certain activists believe are \u201charmful\u201d to students and families and violate Texas\u2019 Senate Bill 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta \">By Brad Burt, KTTZAugust 31, 2026\u00a09:45 am<a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/education\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/ktzz-texas-tech-public-broadcasting\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech Public Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A debate over books in Texas\u2019 public school libraries picked up new attention last week, when Lt. Gov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-421907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}