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...Wendy S. Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America, described her personal experience with the increasingly competitive program that places recent college graduates as teachers in low-income communities to an audience at the Institute of Politics last night...
...Kopp first conceived of the program in 1989 as her Princeton senior thesis, in which she proposed a model of an organization that would work toward eliminating educational inequality...
...Kopp said she was concerned by the less aggressive recruitment in the public sector as she saw many of her peers go to work on Wall Street...
...remember in Philadelphia, the public high school system is one of the country’s most challenging,” said Kopp, reflecting on the early years...
...Kopp said that the organization she started with a $10 million dollar budget. It has now grown to have a budget of $200 million...