{"id":1208345,"date":"2022-01-11T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208345"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:20:06","slug":"cardona-requested-school-board-letter-that-called-parents-domestic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cardona-requested-school-board-letter-that-called-parents-domestic-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardona Requested School Board Letter That Called Parents \u2018Domestic Terrorists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcardona-requested-school-board-letter-that-called-parents-domestic-terrorists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Parents group calls for investigation into &#8216;jaw-dropping&#8217; emails<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rsz_gettyimages-1230275983-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rsz_gettyimages-1230275983.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rsz_gettyimages-1230275983-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rsz_gettyimages-1230275983-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSecretary of Education Miguel Cardona \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 January 11, 2022 2:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asked the National School Boards Association to draft a controversial letter that referred to the parents of schoolchildren as potential domestic terrorists, emails show.<\/p>\n<p>According to emails obtained by the group Parents Defending Education, association official Kristi Swett wrote to a colleague that the group&#8217;s executive director Chip Slaven said &#8220;he was writing a letter to provide information to the White House, from a request by Secretary Cordona [sic].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The emails provide the first indication that Cardona had a hand in creating the letter, which provided cover for the Justice Department to form a federal task force to investigate threats of violence against school board members. Fox News first reported the details of the emails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The allegation that Secretary Cardona requested the NSBA&#8217;s involvement is jaw-dropping, and should be investigated immediately. American parents deserve to know whether the head of the U.S. Department of Education sought to silence their voices\u2014and if so, he must be held accountable,&#8221; said Parents Defending Education president Nicole Neily.<\/p>\n<p>Slaven and National School Boards Association president Viola Garcia called on President Joe Biden in the Sept. 29 letter to deploy the FBI and use the Patriot Act to investigate threats made against school board members as acts of &#8220;domestic terrorism.&#8221; Attorney General Merrick Garland formed a federal task force to investigate threats against school boards on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Parent groups and Republicans blasted Garland over the decision, saying they were concerned that the task force would have a chilling effect on parents&#8217; dissent against local school board policies. Many parents across the country have voiced concern over school districts&#8217; teaching of left-wing ideologies, such as critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> previously <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/white-house-knew-about-letter-that-compared-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that other emails from National School Boards Association members show that officials were in contact with the White House and Department of Education prior to sending the letter. Garcia wrote in an email on Oct. 2 that association officials had been engaged with the administration for &#8220;several weeks&#8221; prior to sending the letter to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why Cardona requested the letter from the National School Boards Association rather than communicate concerns to the White House himself.<\/p>\n<p>Cardona&#8217;s discussions with the association also raise questions about his selection of Garcia, the association official, to serve on the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees testing used across the country. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/school-board-association-president-got-federal-post-after-infamous-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Cardona selected Garcia to serve on the board on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Cardona reviewed the association&#8217;s letter before it was sent to the White House. The Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests seeking agency records regarding the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The National School Boards Association did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Parents group calls for investigation into &#8216;jaw-dropping&#8217; emails  Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona \/ Getty Images  Chuck Ross \u2022 January 11, 2022 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}