Mission Statement
The Nebraska School Board Resource Center exists to equip school board members, empower parents, and encourage teachers with resources to inspire academic excellence in Nebraska Schools.
Values
We believe the first responsibility of schools is to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, and through proper understanding of history, civics, and economics, to inspire in students a love for God and country and respect for our Constitution.
Vision
We envision a school environment where every student is grade-level proficient in reading, writing and arithmetic, and able to articulate the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States of America.
History
Because our vision is guided by our nation's founding documents
"Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."
--1787 Northwest Ordinance, Section 14, Article 3
"A flourishing state of the arts and sciences contributes to national prosperity and reputation. True it is that our country, much to its honor, contains many seminaries of learning...
The more homogenous our citizens can be made in these particulars the greater will be our prospect of permanent union; and a primary object of such a national institution should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
"Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the Legislature... to encourage schools and the means of instruction."
--1875 Nebraska State Constitution, Article 1, Section 4
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Supporting Nebraska school boards with essential tools and training in curriculum, policy and research
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