Texas of All Places

is looking at whether Temp for America is really a good way of wasting precious taxpayer money.

As if there really should be any debate about it.  Waste all of this money so some private outfit can farm out temps pretending to be "teachers" for a couple of years, helping to screw over Title I kids even more by districts not allowing them the veteran, experienced (read expensive)  teachers they truly need.  Then, if these "teachers" can stand the first two years, they ditch these "careers" to do something less stressful and for a lot more money.

But TFA serves a purpose to the educrats and the "reformers" who want to bust the already weak and often useless unions by making teachers "at-will" employees when education is a completely different field than private business, and schools can't be run on business models.  Teachers are already terrified of losing their careers because most of them work under incompetents and sociopaths called "principals" who basically do whatever the fuck they want with the knowledge their "superiors" will back them to the hilt, including abusing the legal system at taxpayer expense.  The power imbalance and rigging of the legal system for school districts' benefit would only get worse under "reforms" like allowing temps to "teach,"  with districts knowing they can just throw teachers out after a couple of years.  It's all to save money on "expensive" teachers, some with even master's degrees, now despised by "reformers."  Teachers would never become vested in public employee retirement in their states and in some states even get screwed out of part of their Social Security.

TFA is a scam designed to suck more money out of hard-pressed states and school districts and further destroy a profession to the point it is just a piece of shit McDonald's job.