News
NSBA issues statements and news releases to advocate for local governance in public education and promote and advance key education initiatives. NSBA also offers timely and relevant news, information and tools to our members and public education supporters.
NSBA Statement Urging Broad Participation in Governance of Public Schools
The public school is both a cherished tradition, as well as a critical underpinning, to the democracies of both Canada and the United States. It is an essential means of ensuring that citizens are well prepared to elect their leaders and to make important decisions about shaping the future. That is why, in both of our countries, education is deeply rooted in the community and why leadership of it must be, too.
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Thomas J. Gentzel Announces Retirement as Executive Director & CEO of National School Boards Association
October 10, 2019After serving as Executive Director & CEO for NSBA since 2012, Thomas J. Gentzel today announced he will retire in May 2020.
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Statement on Upcoming DACA Supreme Court Case
October 10, 2019NSBA filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to preserve the DACA program and protect the rights of the more than 850,000 public school students that have benefited from it.
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A Place of Solidarity: CUBE Conference 2019
October 9, 2019A record 700 public-school leaders, educators, and advocates from across the country and the Virgin Islands gathered in late September in Miami for three days of educational programming, information sessions, and thought-provoking conversations during NSBA’s Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) 2019 Annual Conference.
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Florida’s Hillsborough County School District Winner of 2019 Urban School Board Excellence Award
September 19, 2019NSBA recognizes Hillsborough County, the eighth-largest school district in America, with the Award for the Urban School Board Excellence for their outstanding school board governance, academic improvement, educational equity and community engagement.
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Guilford County North Carolina School Board Member Winner of 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
September 19, 2019Deena A. Hayes, Chairwoman of North Carolina’s Guilford County Board of Education, is the winner of the 2019 Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Portsmouth School Board Member Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award
August 27, 2019NSBA's Council of Urban Boards of Education CUBE is pleased to announce Cardell C. Patillo, Jr., board member and Finance Chair of the Portsmouth, Virginia School Board, winner of the 2018 Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award. The Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual who, through their service as a local school board member, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to representing the educational needs of urban schoolchildren.
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Statement in Response to 2019 PDK Poll Result
August 5, 2019Through continuous growth and innovation, public schools provide exceptional learning opportunities for schoolchildren across the country, and so it comes as no surprise that the PDK Poll again found that K-12 parents give high marks to their children’s local schools. Read more from NSBA Executive Director & CEO Thomas J. Gentzel's statement in response to the 2019 PDK Poll results.
Response to the 2019 NAEP Mathematics and Reading Results
While the national high school graduation rate is at its all-time highest, the findings from the 2019 NAEP Mathematics and Reading Assessments demonstrate that students must have more support.
IDEA High Cost Pool Funding Statement
Following the reintroduction of the IDEA High Cost Pool Funding Act, NSBA Executive Director & CEO Thomas J. Gentzel released a statement in support of the legislation.