This NYT article, which focuses on principals, highlights the talent shortage that plagues our school system – a shortage that TFA makes a meaningful contribution toward addressing. We should be EXPANDING TFA as rapidly as we can because it's such an incredible talent pipeline!

The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country's worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new principals to overhaul most of the failing schools.

That policy decision, though, ran into a difficult reality: there simply were not enough qualified principals-in-waiting to take over. Many school superintendents also complained that replacing principals could throw their schools into even more turmoil, hindering nascent turnaround efforts.

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