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Among the larger charter networks - those with four or more schools - the Icahn, Kipp and Uncommon charter school networks had the lowest attrition rates in elementary school grades when compared to traditional schools in the same school district for the 2013-14 school year. This is a trend we spotted with Icahn and Kipp in our last analysis of the 2010-11 school year.

For the third consecutive year, KIPP Reach College Preparatory, a public charter middle school in Oklahoma City, has received an "A" on the Oklahoma state schools report card.

[VIDEO] This young teacher is currently responsible for the seventh grade at KIPP Sol middle school in East Los Angeles, where she also puts on robotics classes, in which students learn mathematics while assembling and disassembling robots.

Through my experience leading KIPP, a network of 183 public schools serving largely educationally underserved students, I've come to believe leaders in higher education have never been more interested in charting a new course. And it's clear that when colleges make a priority of sending a message of opportunity, students respond and thrive. Just ask the 41 KIPP alumni who attend the University of Pennsylvania, or the 19 at UNC Chapel Hill, or the 10 at Wesleyan University, or the 34 at Franklin and Marshall, or the 15 at UC Berkeley. If this is possible for students at one network of schools, think what is possible for this nation.

A new study of KIPP, a large charter network serving mainly low-income black and Hispanic students, finds that its schools continue to have a positive impact overall on student achievement...

KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth has received a two-year, $1 million grant from Simmons Family Foundation to aid its drive to expand to 10 campuses by 2020.

KIPP Charlotte is on a mission to help students from underserved communities go to college, and joining us today is Tiffany Flowers, the Executive Director of KIPP here in Charlotte.

With its decision to approve a modified expansion of KIPP Reach Academy, the Oklahoma City School Board chose to compromise - a practice all too rare in these politically charged times. It's a move that at its core will help children.

Kalifey-Aluise and several of her colleagues then began to spell out just what she meant by "tough." Two weeks before the storm, KIPP had opened its first school in New Orleans, KIPP Phillips College Prep-a middle school in Gentilly, with a hundred and twenty students.

Clairemont Elementary School in Decatur, Johns Creek Elementary School in Forsyth County and KIPP STRIVE Academy in Atlanta were three of nine Georgia schools named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015.