{"id":928358,"date":"2021-10-27T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=928358"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:14:36","slug":"blackburn-presses-biden-on-school-board-association-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blackburn-presses-biden-on-school-board-association-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackburn Presses Biden on School Board Association Interactions"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fblackburn-presses-biden-on-school-board-association-interactions%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=928358&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 readability=\"28.444444444444\">\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\">Senator&#8217;s letter cites Free Beacon reports on letter that compares parents to terrorists<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2066.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2065.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1280073401_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1280073401_736x514-703x491.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\tSen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) \/ 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 October 27, 2021 12:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.760460251046\">\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) is pressing President Joe Biden for details of the administration&#8217;s interactions with the National School Boards Association regarding a letter that called on the FBI to investigate parents as potential domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/services\/files\/2FA93AF2-2799-4748-AC1B-1FFE382BF4CC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Tuesday letter<\/a> to Biden, Blackburn cited reports from the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that association officials <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/white-house-knew-about-letter-that-compared-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\/\">coordinated<\/a> with White House staff and the Department of Education in the weeks before the organization sent its letter. In emails to Biden administration staffers, the association cited examples of alleged violence at school board meetings and called on Biden to deploy the FBI to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 4, five days after the association released the letter, the Justice Department&nbsp;formed a task force to address the issue. On Oct. 13, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/school-board-association-president-got-federal-post-after-infamous-letter\/\">appointed<\/a>&nbsp;association president Viola Garcia to the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets guidelines for an achievement test used in schools across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The association&#8217;s letter and the Justice Department&#8217;s task force sparked intense blowback from parent groups that say the administration is trying to silence them for opposing mask mandates and the teaching of left-wing curricula, such as critical race theory. &#8220;The memorandum appears intended to intimidate parents across the country into silence,&#8221; Blackburn wrote to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking Biden to disclose who initiated contact between the White House and National School Boards Association and whether White House officials were involved in drafting the Sept. 29 letter.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn also questioned the circumstances of Garcia&#8217;s appointment to the National Assessment Governing Board. She says the timing of Garcia&#8217;s selection &#8220;raises serious questions about whether the appointment was linked to Ms. Garcia&#8217;s work with the White House on that letter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has faced growing calls to dissolve the task force to monitor school board meetings. A group of House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gop-leaders-tell-biden-admin-to-end-probe-of-school-parents\/\">called on<\/a> Attorney General Merrick Garland to end the probe. The Republicans cited <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/school-board-group-apologizes-for-comparing-parents-to-domestic-terrorists\/\">an apology<\/a> from the National School Boards Association over some of the language in the letter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Senator&#8217;s letter cites Free Beacon reports on letter that compares parents to terrorists  Sen. 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