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Florida ranks second in school book removals nationwide, report says

Meanwhile, Florida students’ reading ability and reading scores have continued to decline.

Florida, once the nation’s leader in the movement to rid schools of books that some consider offensive, inappropriate or just too gay, is now trailing the state of Texas in book bans. The Sunshine State this year ranked second to Texas in the record-high number of books removed from public schools

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