Reply #11: "nobody's hiring fully qualified teachers." 86 Dems support funding TFA

[madfloridian]

Now that is a sad statement. Hiring cheaper teachers or paying a private company to recruit them.

Where are all the Democratic leaders protesting this?

There are none at all. In fact they are lining up to continue giving money to TFA from the government.

86 Dems waiting in line to give them more government money.

"TFA would likely be able to get funding from the grant program, but the concern is more about uncertainty, said Daniel Sellers, executive director of TFA in the Twin Cities.

“The issue is actually about timing,” Sellers said. “We weren’t aware when we began the fiscal year that we were going to have to compete for funding, and for a company as large and expansive as ours, it’s difficult to plan without a sense of how much money we’ll have.”

Sellers said TFA has been encouraging program alumni, lawmakers, communities with TFA participants in addition to corporate and individual donors to ask the federal government to fund TFA.

“We’re really trying to rally support, because Teach for America has a lot of stakeholders,” Sellers said. “We’re trying to get support anywhere and everywhere we can get it.”

A total of 86 representatives and senators, all Democrats except for one, have expressed written support for direct funding to TFA, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

“At the end of the day, we have to invest in education,” Ellison said. “Teach for America is helping us to eliminate inequity by getting our nation’s most promising young leaders on the case.”

Did you read that? Ellison says TFA is helping America eliminate the "inequity".