http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2021/12/06/backfire-alert-natl-school-boards-assn-risks-losing-millions-in-revenue-over-state-affiliates-severing-ties/
We’ve already seen reports of many state school board associations pulling their affiliations with the National School Boards Association, but Axios’ Lachlan Markay has shared a report that’s assigning a dollar value to the NSBA backlash, and it could end up being substantial:
Lachlan Markay ~ New w/ @StefWKight: the National School Boards Association risks losing “millions” in revenue, according to internal communications and financial records, after 17 state affiliates severed ties over its letter likening parent protests to domestic terrorism.
http://www.axios.com/national-school-boards-association-letter-funding-090f6d1e-fcc3-45c8-9326-7dc1cf0c35a1.html
They were asking for it. From the Axios report:
The 17 state associations that have cut ties with NSBA collectively paid $1.1 million in annual dues to the organization in 2019, according to NSBA records submitted at a recent Florida School Boards Association meeting.
Ouch!
Lachlan Markay ~ The fallout “has weakened a national voice for public education” and "caused further devastation to the already dangerously fragile financial position of NSBA,” the chair of NSBA’s Council of Urban Boards of Education recently told its board.
The turmoil comes as education issues are front and center in the national political conversation—in other words, when an effective school board advocacy apparatus is most desperately needed.
Keep it up, liberal education groups and teachers unions — you’re doing great.
Will Nye ~ Seems like not calling parents domestic terrorists would’ve been a pretty good way to avoid this dilemma.
Michael Krempasky ~ Has anyone actually resigned or been fired over this car crash of mismanagement?
Javier Vasquez ~ I don't even feel sorry for them.
Not. One. Bit.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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