The National School Boards Association (NSBA) will be hosting a Twitter chat during the October 3 Presidential Debate, to be held from 9 – 10:30 pm EDT. Be a part of this chat by using the hashtag #debatedenverED and share your thoughts about the debate and the emphasis placed on K-12 education. By using #debatedenverED [...]
School Board News
School Board News Today, an online publication of NSBA, provides timely and relevant stories and analysis from NSBA and other news outlets to school board members, administrators, and all others interested in K-12 education.
Won’t Back Down gets panned by critics, movie goers–and NSBA
Last week the National School Boards Association’s former Executive Director Anne L. Bryant gave a review dismissing the new film “Won’t Back Down,” which opened in theaters across the country this weekend. She noted, “While we wouldn’t expect a Hollywood production about public schools to be grounded in research-based facts, there are many reasons to be concerned [...]
October issue of ASBJ highlights the importance of building bonds
Perhaps only in Hollywood, does the phrase “If you build it they will come,” make sense. In contrast, school districts, must convince taxpayers to come along and help fund capital improvement projects before ever breaking ground. It’s a tall order and an increasingly difficult one for districts in today’s political and economic climate. But a series of articles in October’s ASBJ illustrates how [...]
What would you do if your community was reluctant to pass a bond issue?
October’s ASBJ Adviser Poll asks readers to weigh in on this scenario: A school district badly needed to repair and rebuild several school buildings, but the community kept voting down the bond measures. The school board had always been fiscally responsible and frugal— so frugal voters were not accustomed to being asked approve a tax [...]
NSBA featured on ABC’s 20/20 concerning student discipline
The National School Boards Association’s General Counsel, Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., was interviewed for this ABC News 20/20 segment, “Classroom Confidential: When Student Discipline Goes Too Far“, that aired on September 28, 2012. Negrón was featured later in piece (at 04:57) defending school safety and school resource officers and noted, “I don’t think there’s a [...]
NSBA President honors Anne L. Bryant
Editor’s note: C. Ed Massey, president of the National School Boards Association, (NSBA) sent the following letter to NSBA staff, board members, and affiliates earlier today: Dear Colleagues: Today, our extraordinary Executive Director for the past 16 years will spend her last hours as the leader of our association. Dr. Anne Bryant has led NSBA [...]
NSBA creates Action Center to boost lobbying and advocacy in Washington
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has launched the National School Boards Action Center (NSBAC), a 501(c)(4) organization that will enable NSBA to expand its advocacy efforts and to increase its lobbying to include public advocacy activities not previously available. NSBAC is also designed to serve local school board members as an important resource for [...]
Hope and hardship in Maplewood, Mo. — in the 1930s and today
Editor’s note: The following piece was sent to NSBA staff by Senior Editor Lawrence Hardy, whose mother passed away on Sept. 12. A native Missourian, she was a graduate of Maplewood High School, near St. Louis. My mother, Eleanor Collins Hardy, was born in 1916 in Kansas City but spent most of her early life [...]
NSBA president queries Romney on role of school boards
C. Ed Massey, president of the National School Boards Association (NSBA), queried GOP presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney this morning during a session at NBC’s Education Nation Summit. Massey asked for details about the candidate’s views on local school boards and parental involvement. Romney spent much of the session speaking about the need for parental [...]
“Won’t Back Down” misses that turning around a failing school is everyone’s business
NSBA Executive Director Anne L. Bryant is attending NBC’s Education Nation event this week in New York City, and part of the exclusive event included a red-carpet screening of the new film “Won’t Back Down.” The film, which conveys a fictional story of a mother who seeks to enact a parent-trigger law on her daughter’s [...]
