TFA’s Wendy Kopp is Coming to Town
The League for Education Voters, LEV, that same Broad-backed, Gates’ funded organization that brought us Kevin Johnson, a big proponent of charter schools who spoke to a mostly African-American audience in an African-American church in Seattle and by the way, the only event that was not held at the MOHAI Museum, Steve Barth with KIPP, and my personal favorite, Ben Austin with the Parent Trigger, is now sponsoring an evening with Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America (TFA), to extol the virtues of her organization.
Sue and I have written on this blog about Teach for America and how recruits recently graduated from college are used to populate charter schools with cheap labor after five weeks of training to work specifically in low-poverty schools for two years before continuing on in their chosen professions which is usually not in the field of
