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Monday, October 4, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Proposal to bring Teach for America to Seattle to be introduced at school board meeting THIS WEDS 10/6 | Seattle Education 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Proposal to bring Teach for America to Seattle to be introduced at school board meeting THIS WEDS 10/6 | Seattle Education 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Proposal to bring Teach for America to Seattle to be introduced at school board meeting THIS WEDS 10/6

THIS JUST IN FROM THE SAVE SEATTLE SCHOOLS BLOG

It sounds like Seattle School Superintendent Goodloe-Johnson may have already, unilaterally, negotiated something with TFA — the multimillion-dollar enterprise that recruits young college grads and declares them “teachers” after only 5 weeks’ of training and only requires them to stay on the job for 2 years. Only 34 % of them stay for a third year. They are non-union, btw, and paid accordingly.

Yet another shady backroom deal by the corporate ed reformers, pushing THEIR agenda on our schools, ou