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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teach for America - "The Gift that Just Keeps On Giving"

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teach for America - "The Gift that Just Keeps On Giving":

Teach for America - "The Gift that Just Keeps On Giving"

Well look at this - a Broad superintendent going behind a School Board's back to hire more TFA (as they lay off more real teachers ). This is in Cobb County Georgia. Unbelievably, they are paying $8k per TFA per year (as opposed to SPS's $4k per year and Federal Way's $3k per year).

(Thanks to all who posted links or wrote to me.)

From the blog, The Art of Teaching Science:

It was revealed that Kumar met with three influential Cobb citizens, including Shan Cooper (general manager of Lockheed Martin Marietta), Barry Teague (executive developer Walton Communities), and Sam Olens (Georgia’s