Politico.com reports a wonderful story from Arizona, where public education is underfunded and embattled as a result of years of budget cuts and yet another round of deep cuts:
“Nearly 50 Phoenix-based Teach for America members and alumni are asking TFA to return a $500,000 budget set-aside. They say public schools – which will see a net loss of about $100 million under the new budget – need the money more than TFA does. ‘There is a massive contradiction that exists when an organization that claims to work for the education of all children is part of a process that robs Peter to pay Paul,’ the group said. However, the organization’s Phoenix arm already said it intends to accept the state funds.”
More from the New Times: http://bit.ly/1Msto7t.
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That’s basically Wendy Kopp’s yearly salary.
Fat chance that she would ever give that up.
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“TFK”
Teach for Kopp
For Wendy’s pay
Yearly crop
Four hundred K
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Like true plutocrats living off the state. Shame on them.
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“Giving money to Teach for America increases school resources because the nonprofit matches public funding three-to-one with private sector money, they wrote. ”
That’s not the right way to look at it though. The right way to look at it is whether the public sector contribution is worthwhile, all by itself.. The “private sector” could be making a poor investment too, in which case they’re all just paying too much.
Three-to-one doesn’t say anything about value or whether they should be putting public money towards the service.. It sure sounds free marketish and awesome, though!
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http://taughtforamerica.blogspot.com/2015/03/connundrums-contradictions-and.html?m=1
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Let’s also note that AZ is one of the leading states in diverting public $ to private schools.
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