TFA in trouble as internal revolt brewing
Teach For America (TFA) which has been used as a wedge against higher paid, veteran teachers in mainly urban district for years, is now feeling the layoff pinch themselves, according to NBC News Philly..
According to [Isha] Lee, during the 2012 school year, TFAGP had 115 total teachers in Philadelphia. That's down nearly 46 percent compared to a corps size of 252 in school year 2011. And in 2012, only 20 of the 115 corps members were in placed SDP schools; the rest were placed in charter schools. When the district laid off 676 of its teachers last month, all but two of the 20 TFAGP corps members in SDP were included in that number.TFA claims some growth in Mississippi, according to a report in the Clarion-Ledger.
Despite large or long-term TFA presences, overall results are still poor in many districts, including Hazlehurst, Holmes County and Greenville. Nationally, some research shows that Teach for America’s members do at least as well as other