KIPP in the News


 

KIPP in the news: May 31 – June 6 

 

·    Thursday, June 12, 2008

    The Boston Globe

        A PLAN BY the Patrick administration to create autonomous "readiness schools" should help students, provided the proposal does not become a stalking horse for an attack on charter schools. There is plenty of room for both models, especially in cities and towns with poorly performing schools...  Read more....

     Sunday, June 1, 2008 

The Boston Globe 
“The answer; Fifteen years into education reform, we are still failing to fix the most troubled schools. Now there's no excuse.”

… KIPP, which began with a single Houston middle school in 1994, now has 57 schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia, almost all of them charter schools. KIPP has one school in Massachusetts, KIPP Academy in Lynn, which last year boasted the top sixth- and seventh-grade math scores in the state among schools with a student-poverty rate greater than 75 percent.  Read more… 

Education Next 
“Brand-Name Charters; The franchise model applied to schools”

… Singer had just spent a year as a Fisher Fellow in a program run by the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation in San Francisco, training designed to turn him into a school principal with an entrepreneur’s skill set. He’d spent weeks in college classrooms learning business practices and months in KIPP schools seeing how they are run. Then he landed in San Lorenzo, a racially diverse, low-income city about 15 miles south of Oakland, to start KIPP Summit Academy from scratch.  Read more…  

The Providence Journal (Providence, RI)

“It’s time to open the doors to out-of-state school models”

… These networks include the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), Achievement First and the Green Dot Schools, among others. Pop down to New Haven, Conn., to see the thing of beauty that is the Amistad Academy run by Achievement First. Or drive up to Lynn, Mass., to take in a KIPP.  Read more…  

·         Monday, June 2, 2008 

The Oklahoman

“State works to recruit best teachers; Program could help high-need locations.”

… Rep. Tad Jones, R-Claremore, said he believes Oklahomans will come up with the money.  Jones, one of several sponsors of the Teach for America legislation, said the push to attract the program started last year at a Tulsa gathering that included representatives of the Kaiser Foundation and the Knowledge is Power Program. The KIPP founders are corps alumni.  Read more…  

·         Thursday, June 5, 2008 

WIBC 93.1 (Indianapolis, IN) 
“8th Graders First To Graduate From KIPP Charter School”

KIPP Academy honored its first graduating 8th grade class with a "Bridging Ceremony" Thursday at Madam Walker Theater.  KIPP Academy is a non-profit free public charter. It has been ranked as Indiana's number- one Middle School for student improvement and is part of a national network of over 50 schools in 16 states and the District of Columbia.  Read more…  

·         Friday, June 6, 2008 

San Francisco Chronicle

“A tintinnabulation of bells in UC Campanile”

… "We went to Twin Peaks yesterday but it was too foggy," said Mike Brown, a history teacher at Kipp Academy outside Boston. "This is better."  He was accompanied by 40 eighth-graders on a two-week trip around the state.  Read more…