Troops To Teachers - I Pledge My Support...!

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics.

OPINION — In 1992, Congress passed legislation in the fiscal 1993 Defense Authorization Bill that required the establishment of a five-year program “to assist eligible members of the armed forces, after separation from active duty, to obtain certification as secondary or elementary school teachers or teachers’ aides; and to facilitate the employment of such persons by local educational agencies experiencing a shortage of teachers or teachers’ aides,” according to the House-Senate conference report on the measure.

I bring up what has been called the Troops-to-Teachers (TTT) program because on August 3, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that traced the up-and-down government support for this meritorious program which today, faces an uncertain future. – Read More