Left out of No Child Left Behind: Teach for America's outsized influence on alternative certification
October 11, 2012
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| Licking Boots Again |
When Kevin Huffman joined Teach for America (TFA) in September 2000 as vice president of development and general counsel, there was no real federal operation in place at TFA, nor anyone within the organization who really knew how Washington, DC, worked—including Huffman.
“I had absolutely no idea what I was doing for the first six months,” he said.[1]
The 1992 Swarthmore College graduate had started out teaching first and second grade in Houston with TFA and then gone to New York University for law school. He had represented a few education clients during his two-year stint at the DC law firm Hogan & Hartson, but little of that work had involved building relationships with congressional leaders and White House
