Nick Faber, St. Paul Federation of Teachers and Leewana Thomas, Mac student and organizer with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS).

Every year thousands of students from more than 800 universities and colleges across the U.S. apply to become Teach For America (TFA) corps members, hoping to gain teaching experience with youth in low-income schools. The TFA Truth Tour told stories of under-prepared recruits, and sweetheart contracts between schools and TFA.

“I really believe that if more college students actually knew what TFA was doing at the policy level, they would not be applying to be a corps member. They would never want to be a part of this organization,” said Neja Singhal, who relocated with the program to the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas after her graduation from the University of Maryland.

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