WATCH LIVE: Cobb BOE to Revisit Teach for America

Cobb Board of Education Chairman Scott Sweeney has requested that the board discuss Teach for America for the 2013-2014 school year.

Sweeney told the Marietta Daily Journal that if the Cobb County School District moved forward with TFA, principals would have the final say on accepting a TFA teacher at their schools.

Hinojosa said he pulled the proposal because he felt the timing was wrong, and it would be revisited for another fiscal year.

The MDJ published a piece announcing its own opposition to the TFA measure on Jan. 26.

On Monday, the MDJ said "school board watchers" told their reporters that Sweeney conspired that Cobb BOE Vice Chairman David Morgan would vote and approve the controversial ninth-grade center at Harrison High if TFA were discussed again.

Although the board voted 4-3 at its March 22 meeting to delay construction of a ninth grade center at Harrison High, the board will again vote on the matter Wednesday.

, told the MDJ, "I would worry that bringing up already-decided issues would open the door to all the decisions being questioned and challenged."

Jackson also emailed a "call to action" to CCAE members and other Cobb community members.

The email started with "Email Your School Board - TELL THEM NO TO TEACH FOR AMERICA" and continued with

"Your School Board is not being transparent!! There have been allegations of vote trading between David Morgan and Linda Crowder-Eagle. This vote trading would allow the Harrison 9th grade center to be built, in exchange for Teach for America being allowed to come into Cobb and displace real teachers!! While we have no issue regarding the 9th grade center, it is a SPLOST item, we do have a BIG problem with Teach for America! We need you to email the school board members and encourage your friends, coworkers, and anyone else to do the same. Tell them NO to bringing in untrained, non-certified, unqualified people when we have REAL, CERTIFIED,QUALIFIED TEACHERS who still need jobs! The research is showing that TFA is NOT the answer, real, dedicated teachers is the answer!"

The email then linked to the MDJ article where Jackson was quoted and that stated that MDJ reporters were told about the vote-trading allegations by "school board watchers."

Lastly, the email includes this sample email language:

"Dear Board Member,

I am an employee of Cobb County School District and I say NO to Teach for America! We do not need or want this experiment in OUR county! Our children deserve qualified, certified teachers!! We deserve a school board who remembers that CHILDREN, NOT POLITICS, come first! NO to Teach for America!!"

What do you think about Teach for America? Are school board members trading votes or have these allegations emerged as a result of a different motive? Tell us what you think in the comments below.

Tune in to the school board meeting this morning at 8:30 live.