One of the right wing's goals is to destroy public institutions of all kinds -- not just schools but also libraries, transit, and pretty much anything that can be "privatized" (a BS word that means sold off to financial profiteers who will gouge the public and degrade vital services.
@dangillmor I really love that they sent in a police officer to arrest books, essentially. I sure hope nobody tells them about digital lending. Or Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive and the like.