Testimony Regarding Teach for America
This is the testimony that I will be giving tonight at the Seattle Public School Board meeting.
Dora
Regarding the rif (Reduction in Force, better known as a lay-off), our interim superintendent needs to rif central district staff who are housed in this building before impacting our classrooms and class sizes by laying off teachers.
Schools are about teaching first and foremost. Schools are not about having 5 people on a communications team, one of them recently hired and highly paid, to follow the PR communications plan that the Broad Foundation set forth to SPS in 2007 with the arrival of our former Broad superintendent.
Regarding Teach for America, I would like to bring to your attention a brief that was released last year by theCenter for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), an organization that provides studies and papers for