Asch
Nice NYT article on Chris Myers Asch. Chris is a former Mississippi Delta TFAer. After teaching, he started a program called the Sunflower County Freedom Project which, as I've often said, is the most impressive program for improving the lives of young people that I have ever seen. Now, Chris is starting a Public Service Academy from scratch. Oh, and he found time to write a book, The Senator and the Sharecropper.
WASHINGTON — There is West Point for soldiers, and Annapolis for sailors, but no parallel place of grit and glory for that maligned tribe of government workers known as bureaucrats.
Chris Myers Asch is trying to change that.
With no money, contacts or obvious qualifications, Mr. Asch quit his job three years ago at a Mississippi after-school program and started a campaign to create a civilian service academy — a West Point for bureaucrats.
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Mississippi Teacher Corps (host) Updated: Oct 24, 2009
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