What football can teach school reformers
Super Bowl weekend seems like an appropriate time to look at the football-school reform connection. The man to do it isLarry Lee of Montgomery, Alabama, former executive director of the Covington County Economic Development Commission and the West Central Partnership of Alabama. This appeared in the Birmingham News. By Larry Lee The Birmingham school board plans to hire 60 Teach for America teachers over the next three years in an effort to bring more innovation to low-performing schools. TFA is a privately run program that recruits recent college graduates, gives them five weeks of training in how to teach and sends them across the country for two years to work in largely under-performing schools. In addition to paying their salaries, the Birmingham school system will also pay $5,000 per year per new hire to TFA for training.
