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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: Who Will Live In Newark's Teachers Village? TFAers

Jersey Jazzman: Who Will Live In Newark's Teachers Village? TFAers:

Who Will Live In Newark's Teachers Village? TFAers

Teach For America looks like it wants to expand its presence in New Jersey:
Dear Greater Philadelphia Alumni, 
I hope this letter finds you well and with exciting summer plans on the horizon. For those of you I don't know, my name is Yolonda Marshall and I am the interim executive director of the Greater Philadelphia region. Greater Newark executive director Fatimah Burnam-Watkins and I are writing to you today to share some exciting news about Teach For America's work in the great state of New Jersey. 
We are incredibly proud of our corps members and alumni working every day in seven different communities throughout the Garden State. We continue to see progress toward the attainment of our collective vision, and as such it has become clear to us that we've got to start thinking about our impact and potential as one collective group, as opposed to splitting New Jersey into two camps - north and south. The clusters of corps members and alumni in Camden and Trenton have been a proud part of the Greater Philadelphia corps for six years now, but it's time for us to