Appeals court supports Miami district's removal of book on Cuba

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Miami-Dade School Board did not violate the Constitution in 2006 when it removed a children's book about Cuba from the public schools' library system. In a 2-1 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta concluded that the board did not breach the First Amendment, and ordered a Miami federal judge to lift a preliminary injunction that had allowed Vamos a Cuba to be checked out from school libraries. The majority opinion supported the School Board's authority to set educational standards in Miami-Dade, saying the bilingual book presented an ''inaccurate'' view of life in Cuba under its former leader, Fidel Castro.

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