Teach For America to Honor News Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch at Annual Benefit

Teach For America to Honor News Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch at Annual Benefit

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein
and ABC World News Tonight Anchor Peter Jennings Scheduled to Appear

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2005
6:30 p.m. Cocktails
7:30 p.m. Dinner

WHO: Peter Jennings, Anchor and Senior Editor, ABC World News Tonight
Joel Klein, New York City Schools Chancellor
Wendy Kopp, Founder and President, Teach For America
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
News Corporation
Nancy Peretsman, Managing Director, Allen & Company

WHAT: Teach For America honors Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of News Corporation, for his commitment to
educational excellence for all New York City public school
students.

Teach For America's sixth annual benefit dinner will support the
growth of the organization's New York City teaching corps. This
fall, more than 800 Teach For America corps members will teach in
schools across Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx, with hundreds
more alumni working in public education and in other sectors to
expand educational opportunity for our city's children. Teach For
America is part of the city's collective effort to improve
educational outcomes for its public school students.

WHERE: The Waldorf-Astoria
301 Park Avenue (between 49th and 50th St.)

About Teach For America

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in low-income urban and rural communities and who become life-long advocates to expand opportunity for children. Corps members go above and beyond traditional expectations to impact the lives of children growing up in low-income communities. Beyond their two years, corps members take their insight and added commitment to assume leadership roles from inside education and from every other sector, working to effect the fundamental changes necessary to make educational equity a reality in our country.

Since Teach For America placed its first 500 corps members in classrooms in 1990, more than 12,000 outstanding college graduates have joined its movement to eliminate educational inequity. Today, 3,000 corps members teach in 22 locations in underserved communities across the country. For more information on Teach For America, please visit: http://www.teachforamerica.org/.

Media RSVP:

Christine Thelmo Emily Del Pino
Teach For America Teach For America
+1-212-279-2080 x182 +1-212-279-2080, x143
christine.thelmo@teachforamerica.orgemily.delpino@teachforamerica.org

PRNewswire -- May 17

Source: Teach For America

Web site: http://www.teachforamerica.org/

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