{"id":31706,"date":"2025-01-27T18:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/us-education-department-ends-hoax-investigations-into-book-bans\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:08:47","slug":"us-education-department-ends-hoax-investigations-into-book-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/us-education-department-ends-hoax-investigations-into-book-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"US education department ends \u2018hoax\u2019 investigations into book bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-era decision criticized by advocacy groups as being \u2018in direct conflict with freedom of speech\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A decision by the US education department to end their investigations into book bans in the country has sparked backlash from advocacy and civil liberties groups.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE\u2019s Office for Civil Rights announced on Friday that it had dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans and it will no longer employ a \u201cbook ban coordinator\u201d to investigate local school districts and parents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/27\/education-department-book-ban-investigations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-era decision criticized by advocacy groups as being \u2018in direct conflict with freedom of speech\u2019 A decision by the US education department to end their investigations into book bans in the country has sparked backlash from advocacy and civil liberties groups. The DOE\u2019s Office for Civil Rights announced on Friday that it had dismissed 11 &#8230; <a title=\"US education department ends \u2018hoax\u2019 investigations into book bans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/us-education-department-ends-hoax-investigations-into-book-bans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US education department ends \u2018hoax\u2019 investigations into book bans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}