December 12, 2021
Lawmakers Let Liberal School Boards Lobby Against Texans on Taxpayers’ Dime
by Erin Anderson
As more and more Texans join the backlash against the National School Boards Association for comparing parents fighting harmful school district policies to “domestic terrorism,” they’re reminded that their lawmakers failed to defund the NSBA’s Texas affiliate—despite repeated calls from constituents to stop sending tax dollars to lobbyists.
The Texas Association of School Boards is a statewide tax-funded lobbying group for school officials. All 1,024 Texas school boards are TASB members. Dues are paid with tax dollars, and TASB sends some of those dollars to the NSBA.
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Quoting...
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
— Thomas Sowell
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