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Teach for America - Why Is TFA Now Serving Charter Schools?
The Walton Family Foundation donated $20 million to Teach for America in 2013. The two-year grant was directed at nine cities where charter schools were sprouting up, including New Orleans, Memphis, and Los Angeles. Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the foundation was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school, and $6,000 for everyone placed in a charter school. Although only 7% of students go to charter schools, Teach for America sent almost 40% of its 6,736 teachers to them in 2018,. Up from 34% in 2015 and 13% in 2008. In some large cities, charter schools employed the majority of TFA teachers, 54
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