{"id":1490399,"date":"2022-05-24T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490399"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:00:02","slug":"texas-school-board-group-leaves-national-school-boards-association-after-report-on-domestic-terrorism-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-school-board-group-leaves-national-school-boards-association-after-report-on-domestic-terrorism-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas School Board Group Leaves National School Boards Association After Report On \u2018Domestic Terrorism\u2019 Letter"},"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\">30<\/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%2Ftexas-school-board-group-leaves-national-school-boards-association-after-report-on-domestic-terrorism-letter%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=1490399&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--><p>The Texas Association of School Boards Association (TASB) has announced it is leaving its membership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) following a letter the group sent to the Department of Justice asking the DOJ to\u00a0crack down on \u201cthreats of violence and acts of intimidation\u201d at local school board meetings which \u201ccould be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TASB Executive Director Dan Troxell shared the announcement in a press release on Monday following an independent investigation into the letter commissioned by the NSBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been intently waiting for the release of this independent investigation for nearly two months,\u201d TASB Executive Director Dan Troxell said in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasb.org\/about-tasb\/news-and-media\/news-releases\/2022\/tasb-announces-the-end-of-its-membership-in-the-national-school-boards-association.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this report now available, it\u2019s clear that NSBA\u2019s internal processes and controls do not meet the good governance practices that TASB expects and requires in a member organization,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Troxell added that the NSBA\u2019s new leadership had made some improvements, but the changes were not enough to alter the TASB\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision to end our membership in the NSBA will not impact TASB\u2019s work to ensure Texas public education has a strong voice and presence in Washington, D.C.,\u201d Troxell stated. \u201cAs always, we\u2019re focused on supporting our members and the advancement of their advocacy agenda \u2014 both here in Austin and in our nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TASB represents more than 5.4 million students across Texas, making it one of the largest school board associations in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The decision makes Texas one of 30 states that have \u201cdistanced\u201d themselves from the association in recent months over a controversial letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Many have left the NSBA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/press-releases\/state-school-board-associations-responses-to-the-nsba-letter\/#:~:text=As%20of%20December%208th%2C%2028,Ohio%2C%20Pennsylvania%2C%20South%20Carolina%2C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parents Defending Education,<\/a> a nonprofit that describes itself as \u201ca national grassroots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,\u201d listed the following states that have all distanced themselves from the NSBA: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nsba.org\/-\/media\/Files\/NSBA-Report.pdf?la=en&#038;hash=A001354D23C9AE88B54D398270C9790D91B01FF9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent investigation<\/a> noted that while the NSBA had previously apologized for the letter, that\u00a0interim CEO and executive director Chip Slaven \u201cwas behind the Letter, both in origin and substance\u201d and prematurely had exchanges with a senior education advisor at the White House on the letter\u2019s release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/texas-school-board-group-cuts-ties-nsba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlaven wrote the letter in \u2018response to the growing tensions at local school board meetings made manifest by the divide in public opinion in the then-ongoing debate about when and how public-school students should return to in-person instruction\u2019 following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, the NSBA report said,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-sasse-and-others-want-ag-garland-back-in-hot-seat-the-fbi-should-be-going-after-mobsters-not-soccer-moms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Senate Republicans had called for Garland to return to Capitol Hill and face additional questions about the Justice Department\u2019s role in addressing tensions between parents and school boards in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain deeply concerned that your October 4 Memorandum is being used by the DOJ and the FBI as a basis to pursue investigations against American parents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Association of School Boards Association (TASB) has announced it is leaving its membership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) following a letter the group sent to the Department of Justice asking the DOJ to\u00a0crack down on \u201cthreats of violence and acts of intimidation\u201d at local school board meetings which \u201ccould be the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1490444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490399","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\/1490399","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}