By WMAL.com

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a lawsuit  against the Missouri School Boards Association (MSBA). The lawsuit stems from MSBA’s failure to produce requested records related to their role in an October memo from the National School Boards Association and Biden Administration that designated parents who participate in school board meets and presented an alternative view point on issues like COVID restriction and Critical Race Theory as “domestic terrorists”.

• What AG Schmitt is saying: “Today, I filed a lawsuit against the Missouri School Boards Association for hiding public records – records that the public and particularly parents of children in Missouri’s schools have a right to see. For months, my Office has been fighting to get to the bottom of MSBA’s role in the letter to the Biden Administration that led to the federal government investigating concerned parents,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “Further, we’ve sought records related to IEP recording policies, Critical Race Theory, and MSBA’s guidance to school districts on mask mandates. At every turn, we’ve been stonewalled. On behalf of parents across the state, I’m filing this lawsuit to obtain public records about important issues that affect their children and children in Missouri schools across the state.”

• State-of-play: the lawsuit is one example of growing tension between parents and school boards, as parents nationwide have grown tired of school boards forcing their policies and agendas on children without the consent of parents and without transparency in how these decisions are being made.

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