For its part, the Texas Association of School Boards is unapologetic—either for its support of the National School Boards Association (which called on the Biden administration to treat parents speaking out as “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” in 2021), or for its advocacy of political goals that the vast majority of Texans don’t share.What makes it worse is that taxpayers are funding TASB and its bad ideas. The membership dues that each school district pays to TASB are used, in part, to hire lobbyists who advocate for more spending and less accountability for Texas public schools—a vicious cycle that will ...