Barbara Veltri: TFA Is Still Feeding at the Trough
Barbara Veltri is a teacher educator at Arizona State University. She has mentored TFA corps members, and she wrote a book about TFA.
In this essay, she notes that Doug Ducey, Republican Governor of Arizona and a favorite of Charles Joch, is an avid supporter of Trump, school choice, and TFA.
She writes:
Tara Kini, wrote, “We’re hearing a lot of conflicting scenarios and projections related to the teacher workforce come fall. On the one hand, there is a fear of massive layoffs precipitated by the Cov-19 recession and state budget cuts. On the other, there are projections of staffing shortages and state budget cuts. (June 25, 2020).
We have been here before
In 2012, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that in fiscal year 2013, 35 states were spending less than they did during the recession. Since 2009, more than 200,000 teacher jobs vanished and in spite of CONTINUE READING: Barbara Veltri: TFA Is Still Feeding at the Trough | Diane Ravitch's blog
