Barca, Mason, Richards: GOP wraps up budget panel work spending money taken from school kids on tax break for the rich
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Date: June 5, 2013
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Date: June 5, 2013
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GOP wraps up budget panel work spending money taken from school kids on tax break for the rich
MADISON – Leaving several of the Gov. Scott Walker’s most damaging budget proposals until the last day of Joint Finance Committee action, Republicans on the budget committee actually made the budget even worse for Wisconsin’s middle class.In its final hours, Republicans spent hundreds of millions of dollars more on a tax cut, targeting even
Teach for America’s Deep Bench
James Cersonsky October 24, 2012 The American Prospect
The education nonprofit is also training the next generation of politicians, who have very specific ideas on school reform.
“Is this our Egypt moment? Will we seize the moment?”
Former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein spoke those words at Teach for America’s 20th anniversary summit last summer. Coming from Klein, who is now a divisional leader at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, incitements to political uprising might raise some eyebrows. But at the summit for the nonprofit, which recruits college graduates to be teachers in poor school districts around the country, Klein was onto something that Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman have ignored in their eight pro-TFA columns: behind the veil of well-funded, debate-worthy idealism, TFA is coordinating a political revolution.
Since its founding, TFA has amassed some 28,000 alumni. Two have made Time’s “Most Influential” list: its Chief Executive Officer and founder, Wendy Kopp, and former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor and StudentsFirst founder Michelle Rhee. Others have gained prominence as the leaders of massive charter