Teach for America returns to Detroit schools

[tonysam]

This while the district lays off hundreds of teachers. Tell me how TFA is supposed to be about putting the most qualified teachers in school districts:

Teach for America, the national corps of college graduates who teach in underserved schools for two years, will come back to Detroit this summer.

One hundred graduates -- 80 in Detroit charter schools and 20 in Detroit Public Schools -- will descend on the city during one of the most highly charged climates Teach for America has ever seen, officials acknowledge.

As the school board battles Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb over academic controls, the president of the teachers union is threatening an injunction to stop aspiring teachers from entering classrooms if it's at the expense of laying off current teachers in those subject areas.


Detroit Federation of Teachers President Keith Johnson said inviting graduates who haven't studied teaching when 1,983 teachers have received layoff notices "devalues the profession and the professionals."

Detroit News

[FBaggins]

1. Just a day or two ago, the DFT President said it wasn't going to happen.

"Keith Johnson, Detroit Federation of Teachers president, said Bobb’s announcement was premature.


“No TFA is coming into DPS when I’ve got teachers facing layoff,” he said. “We have to discuss a whole laundry list of things before it can even be considered for implementation.”

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So they are laying teachers off AND hiring TFA??

Huh??

[tonysam]

3. Yep. Sounds a bit like the crap Michelle Rhee pulled in D.C.

when she fired a bunch of teachers AFTER she hired a bunch of newbies.

This is the trend in current public ed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. They have a horrible contract in Detroit

I feel for those teachers.