New Tennessee education chief is 'right fit'

Jennifer Brooks:

Gov. Bill Haslam went outside the state and outside the schoolhouse to find Tennessee's next education commissioner.

Kevin Huffman is a Washington, D.C.-based attorney who has two years of classroom experience and a decade as an administrator at Teach for America, a nonprofit dedicated to taking bright young college students with no teaching experience and training them to teach in some of the poorest schools in the nation.

"I put a special effort into finding the right fit for education commissioner," Haslam said in Thursday's announcement of one of his final Cabinet appointments. "... Kevin combines the experience of having been a bilingual first- and second-grade teacher to helping oversee a national organization with 1,400 full-time employees and a budget of $212 million."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 10, 2011 1:18 AM
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