Mercedes Schneider here recounts how Teach for America alumni manage to rise to six-figure salaries at a tender age, and her paradigmatic TFA graduate is John White.
White, now the Commissioner of Education in Louisiana, arrived to do Bobby Jindal’s handiwork, that is, demolishing public education and dismantling the teaching profession.
Quite a task for a young man, but he is up to it.
Thank you, this is the type of information I’m looking for.
http://louisianavoice.com/2013/04/01/six-straight-years-of-lousy-rsd-audits-contracts-signed-by-unauthorized-personnel-just-another-day-at-whites-doe/#comments
According to the above post on Louisianavoice blog it looks like Mr. White continues to leave a mess behind him everywhere he has been “deforming” . Wonder when our elected officials in Louisiana will wake up and smell the poop under their shoes??? Thanks to Mrs. Schneider, Mr. Deshotels, and the other LA bloggers who keep us informed. The new LA legislative session is about to begin. I spent my evening sending messages to each legislator in my state. I hope other teachers here will do the same. They need to know we will hold them accountable for selling out our teachers and students.
The destruction of public education is a team effort that includes elected officials. Destabilizing and striking fear into a class and profession still somewhat able to organize and wake people up is the goal.
Diane, you JUST posted support for a college junior to be elected to a school board, a person with no practical experience in education and far more young than John White. Again, I’m finding a double standard here: folks who seem to have your same viewpoints aren’t held to the same standards of experience and training.
MUCH more effective would be to remain consistent in your expectations, and attack folks based on specific policies they support or don’t support.
That college junior is not promoting deception; neither is she being supported by corporate reform machinations. She stepped in when no one else would. White, on the other hand, stepped over (or was placed over) those who do have experience and are willing to lead.
Yes, experience and training are important. If White stepped in in the absence of others’ stepping up, and if when he did, he didn’t intentionally hand high-paying jibs to his unqualified friends when others are available, I would be okay with him, too.
If I must choose between experienced corruption and inexperienced goodness, I’m going for the latter.
Ed, I agree with you all the way. Big difference between the two and from my over 20 years as a fraud buster I don’t think most running education deserve to be there anyway. They are all toooooooo cooooooooorrupt. Just look from the Pres. on down. I would always have someone intelligent and honest with ethics anytime.
Totally outrageous and complete lack of ethics. That is the “Broadfathers” and his friends, like TFA, way.