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"BE THE CHANGE" event builds momentum for KIPP in Newark: TEAM School's annual gala inspires supporters and families. Watch student performances and an impassioned speech by Newark Mayor Cory Booker. More >>
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KIPP HOUSTON: Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks at KIPP Houston's 9th Annual Dinner. More >>
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WE'RE HIRING a Director, National Data Center. See this and other opportunities at the KIPP Foundation and around the KIPP network: Click here >> |
 2009 KIPP Report Card
We are excited to share the 2009 KIPP Report Card, which captures results from KIPP schools across the country. Our seventh annual Report Card is a direct reflection of KIPP’s focus on results and our long-standing commitment to performance transparency. It includes school profiles and student achievement data for 64 (of our soon-to-be 99) KIPP schools with reportable results from the 2008-09 school year, as well as national aggregate data.
Click here to see our results >>
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KIPP Bridge founding class members Jeramy and Kayla
Dantzler and family at their high school graduation
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KIPPsters climbing the mountain to college in record numbers
This fall, more KIPPsters than ever before will begin their first year of college. For each of these students, college enrollment (and those first days on campus) represents the culmination of a single, defining goal they set the day they started at KIPP. At the same time, their matriculation represents KIPP’s fulfillment of the first part of its mission ...
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KHHS graduate Danisha and her proud mom
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New Orleans students find a home at KIPP Houston, and back again after graduation
Danisha Porche left New Orleans with her family after the warnings, during the wind but before the rain. They traveled by bus to Baton Rouge where they lived in a shelter for three weeks. Once her mom located family members in Houston, they made the trip to Houston with a complete stranger who offered to bring them here.
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TEAM Academy school leader Sha Reagans
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Reflections of a KIPP school leader: an interview with Sha Reagans
Shawadeim “Sha” Reagans is the school leader at TEAM Academy in Newark. Sha was the founding math teacher at the first of the TEAM schools in August of 2002. That school, TEAM Academy, began with 80 fifth graders. In June, that founding group of students graduated from high school and is headed to college ...
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Melissa Diaz, KIPP Houston alumna
graduates from Columbia University
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KIPP alumna Melissa graduates from college and returns to KIPP Infinity via Teach For America
On September 7th, Ms. Diaz, fifth-grade Non-Fiction Studies teacher at KIPP Infinity, will finally meet her first students. Diaz graduated from Columbia University just weeks ago but can hardly wait to get back into the classroom. As soon as she finishes her initial Teach For America training, she’ll join KIPP Infinity ...
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