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Judge orders Harford school board to put banned book back on library shelves

Lawmakers and educators Friday hailed a Harford County Circuit Court judge’s ruling reversing the county school board’s decision to pull a graphic novel from school system library shelves, after a panel of teachers and students had voted to keep it. The ruling by Circuit Judge Yolanda Curtin was the first legal test…

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Judge orders Harford school board to put banned book back on library shelves

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