Would the Obama administration be anti-TFA?

Dc Blogger writes:

If you think that parsing Obama’s portfolio policy is difficult, what to make of the conflicting signals over Teach For America? On the one hand, Barack Obama has praised Michelle Rhee, the poster-child for Teach For America’s impact on American education. Several of his advisors are drawn from the group’s alumni and friends. And as I mentioned last week, as far as I can tell, almost 100 percent of the TFAers I know are pulling for Obama to win.

So why on earth is the campaign allowing Linda Darling-Hammond to play surrogate for the Senator and say nasty things about TFA in high-profile events? See for yourself; check out Vaishali Honawar’s Teacher Beat post about Tuesday night’s Education Week debate and scroll down to the YouTube clip about TFA. You’ll hear Lisa Graham Keegan of the McCain campaign promoting the program and LDH attacking it, arguing that it’s not the way to “build the profession.”

Let’s hope that Darling-Hammond’s view prevails.