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More than 9,000 titles, ranging from computer programming instruction to rock biographies, are banned in Texas prisons.

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Across the United States, this past year has brought a staggering increase in book challenges, bans and other attacks on the right to read and academic freedom.

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The study comes a month after San Antonio's NEISD was found to have banned more books than any other district in Texas.

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The proposed 9-mile tunnel between the San Antonio airport and downtown from Elon Musk's Boring Company has been approved for further review.

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District officials said they replaced the removed books with similar ones that were "more positively reviewed."

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