ProPublica:: How Teach for America Became An Arm of the Charter School Movement

ProPublica's investigation of the funding and mission of Teach for America discovered that TFA is an arm of the charter movement, which aims to replace public schools with non-union private charter school. Documents obtained   by ProPublica show that the Walton foundation, a staunch supporter of school choice and Teach For America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter school. Diane Ravitch says: "This is an eye-popping article, an exemplar of investigative reporting.  It begins: "When the Walton Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools, its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant."