New CEO assesses role organization plays in today’s education landscape
When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where I happened to teach. So, I’ve observed TFA from its earliest days and been a sometime-friend and sometime-critic over the decades since. A year ago, I chatted with TFA’s longtime CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard as she was stepping down. Now, it seemed like a good time to speak with her successor, Aneesh Sohoni, about his first year on the job. Aneesh started out as a high school English teacher and became executive director of TFA in Chicago. He’s also served in the Tennessee education department and as CEO of One Million Degrees. Here’s what he had to say.
–Rick
Rick Hess: You took over Teach For America a year ago. Over time, TFA has been up and down, beloved and despised. Where do things stand today?…