by Education Radio
Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire underpaid TFA recruits with 5 weeks training to do brief "missionary work" stints in public schools before moving on. Turning teaching into Wal-Mart style temp work is what TFA is all about.
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Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor.
Between 1968 and the end of the ‘70s, the Bronx was the scene of thousands of fires.
The history of black postal workers demonstrates the critical importance of government employment and a robust public sector.
Bruce Dixon “a Real Soldier” of the Movement
When the United States puts on its global policeman’s uniform, it expects to kill with impunity, just like the cops here at home.
