Florida’s Hillsborough County School District Winner of 2019 Urban School Board Excellence Award

NSBA 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.

• Statement in Response to 2019 PDK Poll Result

  August 5, 2019

  Through 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.

• Universal Service Fund Cap Statement

  July 31, 2019

  Created in compliance of the Telecommunications Act in 1996, the Universal Service Fund provides affordable internet access to low-income and rural areas. In its comments to the FCC, NSBA made clear that placing an overall spending cap on the fund will lead to unnecessary competition among its four programs.

• Smoke Free Schools Act Statement

  July 26, 2019

  NSBA supports The Smoke-Free Schools Act of 2019 introduced in the House today. The legislation would ban e-cigarette usage in educational and childcare facilities.

• Alabama Association of School Boards and Georgia School Boards Association Named Recipients of Leading Edge Award

  July 15, 2019

  NSBA recognizes the Alabama Association of School Boards (AASB) and Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA) for their development of innovative projects that promote and advance public education.

• Census Citizenship Question Statement // Declaración sobre la Cuestión de Ciudadanía en el Censo

  June 27, 2019

  The National School Boards Association commends today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dept. of Commerce v. New York. This is a decision that could have a profoundly positive and long-lasting impact on schoolchildren in our public schools.

• An Inaccurate Census Count Jeopardizes Educational Opportunities

  June 25, 2019

  The ability of public schools to carry out their mission will be severely undermined if the federal government undertakes measures such as the inclusion of a question on citizenship in the Decennial Census, which U.S. Census Bureau and survey experts predict will undercount the number of children and families our schools serve.

• Underserved & rural communities stand to lose with proposed E-rate and USF cap

  June 24, 2019

  Access to the internet is a necessity in today’s society. Capping the Universal Service Fund & E-rate program, which connect nearly 100% of schools & libraries to the internet, will only hurt those who need and depend on it to stay connected.

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