Democratic Candidates Should Distance Themselves From Teach for America
Like most who support public education and the teaching profession, I routinely pore over media reports to learn what the Democratic candidates will bring to the table for PreK-12 education, and higher education. Here are the frontrunners’ plans.
A while back Sen. Sanders gave us his Thurgood Marshall plan.
All these plans have good, questionable, and not so good ideas worthy of fine debate.
But I have one question for every candidate. Who is helping you with your education agenda? If Teach for America is designing your plan for education, Americans need to know.
This is not some simple point to skip over. Teach for America is about the privatization of public schools and many believe they want to replace the teaching profession. The Waltons fund them to the tune of $20 million. Many corporations support them.
If the candidates are working with only Teach for America, it isn’t fair to career teachers and it raises serious concerns about the future of public education.
Some TFA corps members are committed to becoming first-rate teachers. They go back CONTINUE READING: Democratic Candidates Should Distance Themselves From Teach for America