Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.

Elementary schools can choose to exclude certain books with content related to racism and LGBTQ identities when hosting this year’s Scholastic book fairs, the children’s book publisher said.

Scholastic’s decision to make “diverse books” optional in book fairs has been deemed “insidious” by some authors and librarians.

Scholastic Book Fairs are a U.S. school staple, and now those schools can decide whether they want to include certain titles on race and sexuality. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

Scholastic will no longer make it optional for schools to include a selection of books about diversity in school book fairs. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

On average, a Scholastic book fair tends to make $6,000, which makes the average school profit $1,500 or 3,000 Scholastic dollars, Stone said. In total, schools earn about $200 million through ...

Because Scholastic Book Fairs are invited into schools, where books can be purchased by kids on their own, these laws create an almost impossible dilemma: back away from these titles or risk ...

When it comes to Scholastic, the undisputed giant of school book fairs, missteps around whether they’ll provide the full range of books in districts that have imposed restrictions on titles that ...

Sasha Quinton, president of Scholastic Book Fairs, has been named to head the new unit, which is expected to be launched by June, in time for the 2023–24 school year.

Scholastic Book Fairs are a U.S. school staple, and now those schools can decide whether they want to include certain titles on race and sexuality. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

Scholastic will no longer make it optional for schools to include a selection of books about diversity in school book fairs. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

Scholastic will no longer make it optional for schools to include a selection of books about diversity in school book fairs. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.