Monday, July 2, 2012

The sharks are circling Seattle Superintendent Banda | Seattle Education

The sharks are circling Seattle Superintendent Banda | Seattle Education:


The sharks are circling Seattle Superintendent Banda

I attended the public reception for new Superintendent Banda last week which was sponsored by the Alliance for Education and El Centro de la Raza. Everyone was invited and about 400-500 people were in attendance when I arrived around 6:00 PM.
As I entered the door, someone came up to a guest behind me and said that there were others in attendance from TFA. Apparently both of these guests were TFA recruits or alums. Wow, I thought, I had not even gotten into the room  and was already hearing about that organization.
Later, when I was in line to meet our new superintendent, the woman in front of me introduced herself as a TFA,