Teach for America
Wants Illegal Immigrant DREAMers to Lead U.S. Classrooms
by Robert Wilde 10 Feb 2014, 2:32
PM PDT
Teach for America,
a non-profit organization that recruits teachers for low-income schools, is
placing candidates who came to America
illegally but have been granted Deferred Action status.
In 2012, President Obama
established a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Obama’s executive action provided 560,000 illegal immigrants, who came into the
U.S.
as children, permission to work here if they pursue education as a career.
These immigrants call themselves “Dreamers” after the failed federal DREAM Act,
which would have granted them green cards.
Co-CEO of Teach for America Elisa
Villanueva Beard insists, “It’s just an incredible opportunity for our
country.” Villanueva Beard’s organization has already hired 30 applicants for
2014 with the Deferred Action status. “It’s critical for us to create pathways
for more people of color to enter the teaching force,” she says.
In order to recruit for the DCAA
students, the non-profit group has been visiting school districts across the
country, explaining that as long as the immigrants have work authorization, a
Social Security number, and a 2.5 grade point average in college, they can work
as teachers. University of California,
Irvine graduate Jacky Acosta, 25, who came to the U.S. from Mexico as a newborn and was
undocumented until she was given DCAA status in 2013, shared that, “When Teach
for America announced that DACA recipients could apply, it was automatic, I got
all my statements and my paperwork ready and I submitted.” Both she and her
brother, who also was granted DACA status, will be teaching in Los Angeles in 2014.
Teach for America is not
alone in recruiting DACA candidates. BB&T Bank also seeks out young
undocumented immigrants for job vacancies.
Adam Luna, director of Own the
Dream, an organization that helps “Dreamers” apply and take advantage of
deferred action, says, “Throughout my experience working with Dreamers, one
thing that’s for sure, they have a way of making the impossible, possible. Just
because of life circumstances so many of them have had to be extremely
resourceful and creative.”
Mexico
Ernesto
Zedillo was the president for Mexico,
and a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Note: Lawrence H. Summers is a board member
for the International Crisis Group, a
distinguished fellow at the Center for
American Progress, was the National Economic Council chairman for the Barack Obama administration, a
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at Teach for
America, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
George
Soros is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for at the Center for American Progress, the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
Jose H. Villarreal
is a director at the Center for American
Progress, a Teach for America,
and a senior adviser for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was a director at the Joyce Foundation.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Teach for America.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the chairman for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc.
Margaret C. Whitman
was a director at DreamWorks Animation
SKG Inc., and is a director at Teach
for America.
Paul
J. Finnegan is a director at Teach
for America, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Linda Johnson
Rice is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a director at the United
Negro College Fund.
Michael L. Lomax
is the president & CEO for the United
Negro College Fund, and a director at the Teach for America.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Richard
C. Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a regent at the University of California,
a board member for the Haas School of
Business, and married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein.
Donald
G. Fisher was a board member for the Haas
School of Business, and a director at Teach
for America.
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Christopher
Edley Jr. is the law school dean for the University of California,
Berkeley, and the U.S. program advisory panel member
for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Brookings Institution (think tank), Teach for America, and the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Dianne
Feinstein is married to Richard C.
Blum, a U.S. Senate senator, and
a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Jeb
Bush is a member of the Alfalfa Club,
and an advisory committee member for the Hispanic
Leadership Network.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Frederic V. Malek
is a member of the Alfalfa Club, the
founder & board member for the American
Action Network, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
David
Gergen is a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), a director at Teach
for America, and a senior political analyst for CNN.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), the chairman emeritus for the Teach for America, and was the chairman
& CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN, and
a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the president for Mexico.
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), the founder of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the founder for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the endowed
predecessor schools for the Carnegie Mellon
University, and the founder
of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
Beverly Daniel
Tatum is a trustee at the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a director at Teach for America.
Kati
Haycock is a trustee at the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the chair for the New Teacher Project.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the New
Teacher Project, Teach for America,
and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is a life trustee at the Carnegie
Mellon University, a trustee at the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and married to John F.
Kerry.
Sara Martinez
Tucker is a director a Teach for America,
was the under secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, and the president & CEO for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
Barack
Obama contributed $125,000 of Nobel Prize money for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, and an intern
for Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the legal adviser for the Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
David F. Hamilton
was a canvasser for the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and is Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew.
Lee
H. Hamilton is David F. Hamilton’s
uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a co-chair
for the Independent Task Force on
Immigration and America's Future, and was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was a member of
the Iraq Study Group, is a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Jose H. Villarreal
is a senior adviser for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a director at the Center for American Progress, and a Teach for America.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Mellody L. Hobson
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the chairman for DreamWorks
Animation SKG Inc.
Margaret C. Whitman
was a director at DreamWorks Animation
SKG Inc., and is a director at Teach
for America.
Paul
J. Finnegan is a director at Teach
for America, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Linda Johnson
Rice is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a director at the United
Negro College Fund.
Michael L. Lomax
is the president & CEO for the United
Negro College Fund, and a director at the Teach for America.
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