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Questions regarding Teach for America, Inc. that the Seattle School Board has yet to answer. | Seattle Education

Questions regarding Teach for America, Inc. that the Seattle School Board has yet to answer. | Seattle Education:

Questions regarding Teach for America, Inc. that the Seattle School Board has yet to answer.

The Seattle School Board recently voted 5-1 to hire three more TFA, Inc. recruits. Four of these board membersare incumbents in an upcoming school board race. These four board members also received funding from supporters of TFA, Inc. who poured money into the coffers of the Seattle Foundation to pay the additional expense of $4,000 per TFA, Inc. recruit per year to grace us with their presence in the Seattle Public School system. Conflict of interest? Borderline. Ethical? Probably not.

According to the Save Seattle Schools blog:

There were several donors to the Seattle Foundation TFA fund. Three of them, Matt Griffin, Evelyn