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Consortium of State School Boards Associations

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Consortium of State School Boards Associations
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Basic facts
Year founded:2021
Website:Official website

The Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA) is an organization representing state school boards associations. COSSBA describes itself as a "non-partisan, national alliance dedicated to sharing resources and information to support, promote and strengthen state school boards associations as they serve their local school districts and board members."[1]

About

As of March 2024, the COSSBA website stated:[1]

“

COSSBA is voluntary, non-partisan federation of state school boards associations focused on:

  • Support for the work of state school boards associations through effective staff collaboration, networking, and shared resources
  • Networking opportunities for local school board members and association board members to enhance the effectiveness of their work
  • Tracking and advocating for federal education issues and policies impacting local school boards and public education aligned with a statement of core values and beliefs of COSSBA
  • Federal judicial advocacy impacting local control and public education[2]
 ”

History

COSSBA was founded in 2021.[1] The organization held its founding meeting with the participation of 22 state associations in April 2022.[3][4] A majority of the state associations that founded COSSBA were formerly affiliated with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) but terminated their membership in the NSBA between October 2021 and June 2022. To view a timeline of those events, click here.

The organization's inaugural national conference was held from March 30 to April 2, 2023, in Tampa, Florida.[5]

Members

As of March 2024, the following state school boards associations were members of COSSBA:[6]

* Founding member[4]

Advocacy

As of March 2024, the COSSBA website stated: "COSSBA’s non-partisan Federal Advocacy concentrates on a few major federal issues with widespread impact on the nation’s public schools and students. Our advocacy position statements are adopted annually by leaders of the member state school boards associations, requiring a two-thirds majority support. They serve as a unifying agenda on behalf of American public school students."[7]

COSSBA's website listed the following advocacy priorities:

“
  • Prioritizing K-12 public education as schools of choice
  • Increased funding for K-12 education
  • Teacher and principal training and recruitment (Title II)
  • Broadband, connectivity, cybersecurity, and E-Rate
  • Child nutrition programs
  • Individuals With Disabilities Eduction Act (IDEA)[2]
 ”

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Consortium of State School Boards Associations, "About COSSBA," accessed February 13, 2023 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "about" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "about" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ Illinois Association of School Boards, "IASB Named Founding Member of COSSBA," April 15, 2022
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kentucky School Boards Association, "COSSBA," accessed February 13, 2023
  5. ↑ Consortium of State School Boards Associations, "COSSBA Inaugural Conference," accessed February 13, 2023
  6. ↑ Consortium of State School Boards Associations, "COSSBA Members," accessed February 13, 2023
  7. ↑ COSSBA, "Federal Advocacy," accessed March 4, 2024
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