The school district noted in a court filing that it couldn’t return the 19 books to library shelves because they had been discarded after being pulled.
The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”
Other Colorado universities and K-12 school districts say they are reviewing the new directives from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.