TFA Goes Supersize

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Teach for America just landed $30 million for capacity building

Wendy Kopp, founder of TFA, explains her vision:

We aim to increase our impact exponentially in the next five years. Meeting our goals will mean that by 2010, we will reach 700,000 students, advancing their academic achievement on average one and a half years ina single year's time. At that point, we will be the top employer of top recent graduates, thus building an unprecendeted pipeline for education leadership...

regardless of your opinion of TFA, you have to admit, that's pretty damn impressive

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