A Delaware agreement with Teach for America pays $300,000 for 6 teachers...

That is for 3 year contracts for 6 teachers in addition to their regular benefits.

That's a lot of public money going to a private company, when there are regular public school teachers being laid off for lack of funds.

I mentioned in another post that a St Louis district paid TFA $2000 for each teacher the district hired. Looks like different states and counties have different agreements with TFA.



The Red Clay district in Delaware has a different arrangement with this non-profit.

From a blog called Kilroy's Delaware:

More tears from Teach for America



Here is the blogger's comment:



Teach for America is considered a non-profit, tax exempt 501(c)(3).

Correct me if I am wrong, but that would be a school district paying that large amount of public taxpayer money to a private company to hire 6 teachers.

Aren't there 6 well-qualified teachers standing around in Delaware needing a job?

And the bastard he appointed with the connection to Teach America

Former Teach For America Liaison Publishes Eye-Opening Book on the TFA Program

"April 14, 2010 -- When schools lay off experienced teachers to hire Teach For America teachers at beginning salaries, do they get what they paid for?

In Learning on Other People’s Kids: Becoming a Teach For America Teacher, Dr. Barbara Torre Veltri, educator, speaker and TFA program researcher, answers this question, based on her work and interviews with hundreds of TFA teachers. With more than 30 years of teaching experience, Veltri, an award-winning assistant professor at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, is a former Teach for America liaison who developed the model TFA training program that is currently used by Arizona State University.

She asks, “Can you become an instant teacher? What are the consequences for kids and corps members of being hired with less than five weeks of summer TFA training?”

Veltri's vivid real-world account brings to life the findings of others who have examined TFA. In Arizona, researchers David Berliner and Ildiko Laczko-Kerr found that students of TFA teachers achieved at significantly lower levels than those of prepared teachers. In Houston, Texas, Stanford’s Linda Darling-Hammond and colleagues found “no instance where uncertified Teach for America teachers performed as well as standard certified teachers of comparable experience levels,” a finding replicated by another research team in New York City. Commenting on a national study, Barnett Berry, head of the Center for Teaching Quality, noted that, while TFA teachers did about as well as the other underprepared teachers in their schools, “students of Teach For America teachers were still reading more poorly than 85 percent of their peers nationwide, and well below grade level."

Author's web site:
http://www.drbarbaraveltri.com/

"A total of 86 representatives and senators, all Democrats except for one, have expressed written support for direct funding to TFA, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

“At the end of the day, we have to invest in education,” Ellison said. “Teach for America is helping us to eliminate inequity by getting our nation’s most promising young leaders on the case.”

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/04/08/teach-america-fights-direct-funding

What inequities, Rep. Ellison?

There are many promising teachers in the public sector, new and experienced.

I fear the media hype has worked.

http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2010/03/sac-city-superintendent-chooses-teach.html

"Sac City Superintendent gives pink slips to 700, chooses Teach for America


My name is Lori Jablonski and I am a SCTA site rep at C.K. McClatchy High School . This email is to inform you about action at Thursday’s school board meeting that is being organized by a group of elementary, middle and high school site reps in response to both the issuance of 700 pink slips this week (affecting approx. 1/4 of the school district teaching corps.) and the related move to bring Teach for America interns to the school district. This effort to organize a strong, united response to the assault on our jobs, our schools and the integrity of our professional careers is not intended to subvert the SCTA union leadership. Instead, we hope to convince the leadership that rank and file teachers demand a more assertive, more communicative and more active effort on behalf of our membership before the school board and district administration. Even more, we intend to clearly show the school board that we are ready to hold them fully accountable for decisions and actions taken by Superintendent Raymond that will seriously undermine education in this district.

We believe that when school opens tomorrow, there will still be a fairly significant number of teachers who will not be aware of the total number of pink slips that have been issued and the depth and breadth of the lay-offs. Nor will they have a real sense of what the Teach for America program is about or the significance. We are strongly suggesting that you (or ask your site rep) to call an emergency site union meeting on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. "

While teachers are facing huge layoffs.

this is just so sick, what with all of the teacher layoffs occurring across the country.

Just want to thank you for your tireless work on this topic.

I don't have anything to add, just want to let you know that this is important to a lot of people and the truth needs to be heard. So thanks for digging it up!

and most don't even know it is going on.

of why kids, just because they go to school in the inner cities, they should have unprepared or uncertified teachers in the classroom.

Those kids deserve the most experienced, VETERAN teachers in those schools, not some Ivy League bimbos who don't see teaching as a career.

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