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Jameson Brewer  \nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  \n&  \nKerry Kretchmar  \nCarroll University  \n&  \nBeth Sondel  \nNorth Carolina State University  \n&  \nSarah Ishmael  \nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison  \n&  \nMeghan McGlinn Manfra  \nNorth Carolina State University  \nUnited States  \nCitation: Brewer, T. J., Kretchmar, K., Sondel, B., Ishmael, S., & Manfra, M. M. (2016) . Teach For America’s preferential treatment: School district contracts, hiring decisions, and employment practices. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 24(15). [http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1923](http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1923)[ ](http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.24.1923)[This article is part of EPAA/AAPE](This article is part of EPAA/AAPE)’[s](s) Special Issue on Teach For America: Research on Politics, Leadership, Race, and Education Reform, guest edited by Tina Trujillo and Janelle Scott.  \nAbstract: Teach For America (TFA) began in 1990 as an organization purportedly interested in working towards ameliorating a national teacher shortage by sending its corps members into urban and rural schools. In the decades that followed, especially during and immediately following a nationwide onslaught of teacher layoffs instigated by the 2008 Great Recession, teaching shortages no longer exist in many of the districts TFA continues to place corps members. In response to growing criticism, TFA has altered its public rhetoric, suggesting now that their “corps members” are better than traditionally trained teachers – including veteran teachers – and are hired only through equal hiring processes rather than being afforded preferential treatment. We analyze Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) between TFA and regional school districts, TFA’s official literature, and public discourse to address the degree to which TFA is privileged in hiring practices. We provide evidence that school districts are contractually obligated to reserve and protect positions exclusively for corps members, jobs held by corps members are not a result of equal and open competition, corps member positions are specifically not limited to “so-called shortage areas,” and TFA’s partnership with charter schools and alumni of the organization have skewed hiring practices in favor of TFA over non-TFA teachers. Keywords: Teach For America, teacher hiring practices, school district contracts , policy analysis  \nEl trato preferencial de Teach For America: Los contratos de los distritos escolares, las decisiones de contratación y prácticas de empleo  \nResumen: Teach For America (TFA) comenzó en 1990 como una organización supuestamenteinteresada en trabajar para mejorar la falta de docentes mediante el envío de sus miembros a escuelas urbanas y rurales. En las décadas que siguieron, especialmente durante e inmediatamente después de una oleada de despidos de docentes a nivel nacional instigados por la Gran Recesión de 2008, la falta de docentes ya no existe en muchos de los distritos, pero TFA sigue colocando a sus miembros. En respuesta a las crecientes críticas, TFA ha alterado su retórica pública, sugiriendo que sus\"miembros\" son mejores que los docentes entrenados tradicionalmente-incluyendo veteranos-y que son contratados a través de los procesos de contratación en igualdad de condiciones sin tenerun trato preferencial. Analizamos Memorandos de Entendimiento (MOU) entre TFA y distritos escolares regionales, la literatura oficial de TFA, y discursos público para investigar el grado en que TFA fue privilegiado en las prácticas de contratación. 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