Florida School Boards Association Cuts Ties with NSBA Following Letter Targeting Parents as ‘Domestic Terrorists’

The Florida Schools Boards Association (FSBA) voted unanimously this week to end its association with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) as of December 1.

 

FSBA said in a statement it did not submit its dues payment to NSBA for the 2020-2021 year after a reassessment of the value of continuing its relationship with the national group amid “concerns surrounding NSBA’s governance, leadership, transparency, and failure to embrace non-partisanship.”

 

During the FSBA Board of Directors meeting on 11/30, the board voted unanimously to officially allow its membership in the NSBA to lapse. This means that as of December 1, 2021, FSBA is no longer a member of NSBA.
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— FLSchoolBoardsAssoc (@FLSchoolBoards) December 2, 2021

 

The Florida organization said its decision to cut ties with NSBA “was made in response to a persistent pattern of dysfunction” with the national organization and among its leaders.

 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) tweeted his support for the decision:

 

I am glad the Florida School Boards Association unanimously voted to leave the National School Boards Association, and I hope more school boards across the country will follow suit instead of supporting their partisan and dangerous policies.

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) December 2, 2021

 

“I am glad the Florida School Boards Association unanimously voted to leave the National School Boards Association, and I hope more school boards across the country will follow suit instead of supporting their partisan and dangerous policies,” the governor said.

 

The move comes in the wake of NSBA’s highly controversial letter to President Joe Biden asking him to mobilize federal law enforcement to investigate parents expressing concern about education issues as potential “domestic terrorists.”

 

According to grassroots parents’ organization Parents Defending Education (PDE), 17 states have now severed ties with NSBA:

 

Georgia and Tennessee make 17 states that have severed ties with the National School Boards Association.

Our tracker of the 27 states that have denounced the NSBA letter and 17 states that have left the org is updated. https://t.co/kkv6yVMbSl

— Parents Defending Education (@DefendingEd) December 3, 2021

 

 

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