Call to action: No more public funding for Teach for America, Inc.!
Please contact Senator Patty Murray, our representative from the great state of Washington, who sits on the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, and let her know that the money that is assigned to the classrooms should stay in the classrooms and not be used to hire recruits with 5 weeks of “training” to teach our students.
To follow is an article written by Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters and a founding member of Parents Across America that was published in the Huffington Post yesterday:
Will Our Federal Government Renounce Their Proposal to Increase Class Size?
The Obama administration has proposed that in next year’s education budget, 25 percent of the funds to reduce class size or keep teachers on staff be diverted to a competitive grant program to create and expand “new