School board group asks Biden for help dealing with threats

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a missive to President Biden asking for assistance to “stop threats and acts of unit against nationalist schoolchildren, nationalist schoolhouse committee members, and different nationalist schoolhouse territory officials and educators.”

“America’s nationalist schools and its acquisition leaders are nether an contiguous threat,” says the letter, which is signed by NSBA President Viola M. Garcia and NSBA interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven.

The enactment is asking for national instrumentality enforcement to assistance woody with what it describes arsenic a increasing threat.

Garcia and Slaven said they made the president alert of much than 20 threats and acts of intimidation that person been targeted toward schoolhouse officials.

The enactment is besides asking that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service “intervene against threatening letters and cyberbullying attacks that person been transmitted to students, schoolhouse committee members, territory administrators, and different educators.”

White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki was asked astir the missive Thursday.

“We’re continuing to research what much tin beryllium done from crossed the administration, but again, a batch of this volition beryllium section instrumentality enforcement, and however they tin assistance guarantee these schoolhouse committee members consciousness protected," she said.