Julian Vasquez Heilig reports that the school board of Santa Ana, CA, will decide today whether to hire TFA to teach students with disabilities.
Why would anyone hire the least experienced, least prepared youngsters to teach children with the greatest needs?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
100% correct. I pray that does not happen. It would be a huge mistake for those children.
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Not that they dare say it, but I suspect the motive is something along the lines of Rahm Emanuel’s “those kids won’t amount to anything anyway”.
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What she said.
TFA is cheap. They’ll babysit the kids.
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I just came across this game in another blog today (mind you not an education blog)…funny how things all seem to coalesce at once: http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/11/no-pineapple-left-behind/
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and now this in the Onion…Ed reform, or the lack there is is everywhere right now:
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/pros-and-cons-standardized-testing-50388
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It made me lose my taste for pineapple.
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This move represents a way to lower the bottom line for students that are expensive to educate. I am surprised this isn’t a violation of state certification laws. The whole purpose of these laws is to ensure that students receive service from those that are certified and qualified.
In Florida some districts have started their own charter schools for special education students. This seems to be a blatant example of “cloaked inequity.” For the district it is a way to cost cut while circumventing IDEA and state certification laws. It seems absurd that states would create laws to protect students, and then figure out a way to violate them. I hope other districts don’t emulate this model for sub-groups that are expensive to educate.
Discrimination seems to be at the very essence of the charter school movement. Testing is used to identify those that “don’t cut the muster.” This includes our poor, minorities, ELLs and special education students. Then, through this nebulous maze of public-private associations, they figure out way to off load their responsibilities to these students on the cheap. They sell it in a shiny, new box to unsuspecting parents, but it is a Pandora’s box of bad ideas. What’s even more disgusting is that some masters of cloaked inequity have figured out how to make a profit from our most vulnerable students.
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This is where charter schools and TFA seem to come into conflict with NCLB and IDEA http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/%2Croot%2Cdynamic%2CQaCorner%2C2%2C
Are parents fighting back?
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The only complaint I ever heard was a news item where a parent complained because the “teacher” had put her autistic son in the closet when he misbehaved. Frankly, I don’t think the parents are savvy enough to truly understand the difference, especially since the special ed. charter is run by the school district.
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The TFA and their giant paper mache heads.
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I don’t think it is legal! I don’t think the state law would allow for THAT much of a variance.
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Does this mean that Texas will then fund these schools properly in addition to “taking them over?”
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TFA’s ‘good teacher’ narrative tastes nothing but artificial, as it comes out from ‘playing the pity’ game manufactured byTeaching Factory Associates, LLC.
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To answer your question succinctly:
MONEY!!!
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