From The Newsroom: Book Suspensions, Top Cities

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published September 22, 2014 at 6:42 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Highland Park Independent School District officials pulled seven books from the classroom after parents complained about what’s in them. The district had already approved these books and some were being taught in class. And McKinney is top of the heap according to Money Magazine.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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