{"id":1517489,"date":"2022-06-15T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517489"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:04:58","slug":"with-nebraska-groups-withdrawal-half-of-the-50-states-have-now-ditched-the-nsba-for-targeting-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-nebraska-groups-withdrawal-half-of-the-50-states-have-now-ditched-the-nsba-for-targeting-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"With Nebraska Group\u2019s Withdrawal, Half Of The 50 States Have Now Ditched The NSBA For Targeting Parents"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fwith-nebraska-groups-withdrawal-half-of-the-50-states-have-now-ditched-the-nsba-for-targeting-parents%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=1517489&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>Nebraska joined the ranks of states cutting ties with the National School Boards Association on Saturday, making it the 25th state to boycott the organization after the NSBA sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21094557-national-school-boards-association-letter-to-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to President Biden in September 2021 urging the federal government to use domestic terrorism laws to go after parents at school board meetings. The Nebraska Association of School Boards voted to withdraw less than a month after its executive committee voted to cancel its membership, the Omaha World Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/nebraska-school-board-group-cuts-ties-with-national-association\/article_20fa52dc-e758-11ec-a45e-0f06a12e525f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-107.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-107.png 896w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-107-300x260-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-107-768x667-1.png 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The NSBA\u2019s letter to President Biden has enraged <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeAngelisCorey\/status\/1535814196662788096\">half<\/a> of the states in the union now by suggesting that parental involvement in school board meetings amounts to\u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d and by calling on the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Secret Service to quash parent interference. The letter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/23\/school-board-org-wanted-biden-to-send-national-guard-to-districts-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first draft<\/a> apparently included a petition for use of the Army National Guard but a different copy was sent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]ith such acute threats and actions that are disruptive to our students\u2019 well-being, to the safety of public school officials and personnel, and to interstate commerce, we urge the federal government\u2019s intervention against individuals or hate groups who are targeting our schools and educators,\u201d the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21094557-national-school-boards-association-letter-to-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only supposed \u201chate\u201d group referenced in the letter was one that posted watchlists about school boards.<\/p>\n<p>As states like Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania began to drop out of the association almost immediately, the NSBA issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsba.org\/News\/2021\/letter-to-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apology<\/a> for the letter in October 2021, but the public backtracking hasn\u2019t stopped the mass exodus.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska politicians joined the state school board association in criticism of the NSBA letter, with Sen. Ben Sasse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sasse.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=CC1DFBC0-AA3D-4971-BC06-3F40CC08FD18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeling<\/a> the NSBA\u2019s collusion with the Biden Justice Department a \u201cpolitical hack job\u201d and Gov. Pete Ricketts <a href=\"https:\/\/omaha.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/nebraska-school-board-group-cuts-ties-with-national-association\/article_20fa52dc-e758-11ec-a45e-0f06a12e525f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insisting<\/a> that following the letter\u2019s requests would be an \u201cabsolute outrageous abuse of federal power\u201d meant to \u201cbrowbeat parents into not going to school board meetings.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska joined the ranks of states cutting ties with the National School Boards Association on Saturday, making it the 25th state to boycott the organization after the NSBA sent a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"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-1517489","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\/1517489","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\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517489\/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=1517489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}