Rubio, Colleagues Call for Investigation Into Coordinated Efforts Between Biden Administration, National School Boards Association and National Education Association to Silence Parents Protesting School Policies
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), along with ten Senators, wrote to U.S. Department of Education Inspector General Sandra Bruce and U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz urging them to investigate multiple coordinated efforts between the Biden Administration, the National School Boards Association (NSBA), and the National Education Association (NEA) to silence parents protesting school policies related to COVID-19 and Critical Race Theory. The latest development involves the NEA, the nation's largest teacher's union, which wrote to social media companies requesting they censure parents' social media posts. It was also recently revealed that U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona coordinated with the NSBA on its letter to President Biden where it equated protesting parents to domestic terrorism.
"There is reason to suspect the NEA worked with Biden Administration officials to write this letter after email evidence revealed that the Secretary of the U.S. Department Education colluded with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) to produce a letter sent to President Biden a few days earlier, on September 29, 2021," the senators wrote. "Parents Defending Education, a grassroots organization advocating for non-political education and the prevention of indoctrination in the classroom, obtained NSBA internal emails through the Freedom of Information Act. These documents show that last September, the NSBA coordinated directly with Secretary Cardona in writing a letter that characterized parents' concerns about COVID-19 regulations, school curriculum, and other school policies to "domestic terrorism.' The NSBA also requested that the Administration use federal law enforcement agencies to address "threats' and "acts of intimidation' by parents against school staff."
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