Mercedes Schneider: Who Advises Elizabeth Warren on Education?
Mercedes Schneider delved into the experience of Elizabeth Warren’s senior education advisor.
He entered teaching through Teach for America. I hear that his linked-in profile has been deleted since this post appeared but you might want to check to see if it has been restored.
I have met Elizabeth Warren twice, once in her Senate Office, about 2015, where we had a 30-minute conversation about education. I was greatly impressed by her quick intelligence. Earlier this year, I attended a house party in her honor at the home of a mutual friend in Manhattan and again was taken by her ideas about higher education, her passion, and her articulateness.
I was surprised and disappointed therefore to learn that her senior education advisor is TFA. TFA is a favorite of the Waltons, Eli Broad, and other billionaires who support privatization of public education. The Waltons have given many millions to TFA, at one point a single grant of $48 million; Broad assembled $100 from a group of his allies for TFA. The organization supplies a large part of the workforce for private charter schools. Its leaders in high CONTINUE READING: Mercedes Schneider: Who Advises Elizabeth Warren on Education? | Diane Ravitch's blog
