There is a new wave of book bannings across the United States. Parent groups and local politicians have succeeded in having a number of books removed from school curriculums and libraries. We hear from Angela Wynn, a mother in Sarasota, Florida, who is fighting against book bans.

SARASOTA, Fla. - This sleepy county on Florida’s west coast was once known as a haven for retirees who want to enjoy the sunshine and the arts.

But at a school board meeting last month, it took only a few minutes for raw bitterness to erupt.

Paulina Testerman is one of the founders of the Sarasota nonprofit Support Our Schools, which supports equitable public education. While the organization supports parents’ rights, she said the bill rewards bad parenting.

"If you want to be involved in your children's education and their lives, you need to foster that relationship at home,” she said. “And you won't have to rely on bills like this one."

Support Our Schools speaks with hosts Christian Cano and Jenny Gunn of the Coffee & Pan Dulce Show, about the threats facing Public Education.

Carol Lerner, a life-long educator, director of Support Our Schools, and founder of a sister organization called Protect Our Public Schools: “Sarasota has been, for about a year and a half, one of the epicenters in the country of chaos and confusion at school board meetings.”

“It started… with parents and people from the community coming to the school board meetings claiming that the Sarasota school district was indoctrinating their students in Marxism and Black Lives Matter and then later on, when critical race theory became kind of the buzzword, it switched over to that,” Lerner said. Support Our Schools amplified its own position by forming a coalition with 18 organizations in the area including civil rights, LGBTQ, social justice and religious groups.