He spotlights three organizations he claims are leading a movement to reform teachers unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young Teach For America graduates, and Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and
the incoming generation of teachers.»
Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new
generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state
income tax for public school
teachers.
The Project on the Next
Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education released today new research showing that Teach For America (TFA) corps members teach in their low -
income placement schools considerably longer than the TFA two - year obligation.
Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school
teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one
of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low -
income students who will be first -
generation college students; director
of University
of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair
of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child