Call to action: No more public funding for Teach for America, Inc.! | Seattle Education

Call to action: No more public funding for Teach for America, Inc.! | Seattle Education:

Call to action: No more public funding for Teach for America, Inc.!

by seattleducation2011

 In 2009, Teach for America, Inc. (TFA, Inc.) had over $300M in net assets. In 2010, Wendy Kopp received a $50M grant from the government to send unqualified college recruits into the inner city schools to teach our most vulnerable. This money is on top of the fee that she charges a school district  for each recruit that is hired. Now Ms. Kopp is shilling for more by lobbying our legislators to cut back on money that would go to decrease class sizes and instead go into her coffers.
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