{"id":11529,"date":"2023-08-23T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:16:31","slug":"floridas-drive-to-scrutinize-what-kids-read-is-costing-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11529","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s drive to scrutinize what kids read is costing tens of thousands of dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Florida school districts are spending tens of thousands of dollars to comply with a new state law that\u2019s increased scrutiny \u2014 and removal \u2014 of books in K-12 school libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new law requires all campuses to digitally chronicle each book shelved and available for students in classroom libraries. Yet many schools, tight on staff with thousands of books to inventory, are outsourcing the arduous work of making all books searchable on local websites to a third-party company. Those services are costing districts between $34,000 to $135,000 annually, according to contracts reviewed by POLITICO.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/07\/florida-books-schools-00110181\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/07\/florida-books-schools-00110181<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Florida school districts are spending tens of thousands of dollars to comply with a new state law that\u2019s increased scrutiny \u2014 and removal \u2014 of books in K-12 school libraries.<br \/>\nThe new law requires all campuses to digitally chronicle each book shelved and available for students in classroom libraries. Yet many schools, tight on staff with thousands of books to inventory, are outsourcing the arduous work of making all books searchable on local websites to a third-party company. Those services are costing districts between $34,000 to $135,000 annually, according to contracts reviewed by POLITICO.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[894,356,471,200,906,357],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-book","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-law","tag-legislation","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}