Teach for America seeks to “close the educational gap in low-income communities” across America. Today, this is expanding to Latino teachers and corps members given that over 600 Latinos form the 6,000 incoming teacher corps. This renders it the largest Latino recruitment in TFA’s history.

According to co-CEO of TFA, Elisa Villanueva Beard, this group of Latinos is “dedicating their talents and energy to giving all kids an equal chance in life.” This translates into all sorts of issues for teachers, administrators and students.

Teach for America has a simple mission: to help those who are impoverished “achieve at the highest levels.” Today, there are approximately 16m children throughout the nation that are encountering poverty. But TFA is working to ensure that this does not have an impact on their education. This means it does what it can to ensure children get a good education, irrespective of where they live and that the schools are well equipped – from school desks to computer equipment, to playground supervision with extra staff.
In other words, money should not be a factor when it comes to the education of our children.