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epaa-1923	Brewer, T. Jameson; Kretchmar, Kerry; Sondel, Beth; Ishmael, Sarah; Manfra, Megan	Teach For America’s preferential treatment: School district contracts, hiring decisions, and employment practices	2016	38	.pdf	application/pdf	18840	824	50	However, our analysis of MOUs between TFA and school districts in the five regions we studied, alongside local documents and reports as well as state and federal budgets, demonstrate that TFA corps members do not compete fairly with otherwise qualified, traditionally-certified teaching candidates (novices or veterans). Instead, TFA’s special contracts require that districts provide: (1) an allotment of reserved or protected positions for TFA corps members; (2) placement of TFA corps members in teaching positions not limited to “so- called shortage areas;” (3) reserved and protected positions for corps members in “no-excuses” charter schools; and (4) pathways to leadership that skew the employment “playing field” in favor of TFA corps members.	cache/epaa-1923.pdf	txt/epaa-1923.txt