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All of her students at Oklahoma City's KIPP Reach College Preparatory have earned a passing grade on the Oklahoma reading and writing test for the past three years.

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.

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.

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.

On the day before Christmas, when others took paid vacation, Richard Moten walked onto a median on San Felipe Street, near the wealth of the Galleria. He flashed his white poster at drivers, the message in capital letters.

One day in the summer before fifth grade, Courtney Scott was jumping rope with a friend outside her family's West Philadelphia rowhouse when her parents called her inside to meet a stranger. The visit was not the only thing about KIPP Philadelphia Charter School that would be different.

Inside the crisp, brick walls of Arthur Ashe Charter, students study math independently in state-of-the-art computer labs, blow off steam with in-class exercise breaks and take cooking lessons using vegetables grown in the school garden. Ashe is a public school with mostly poor students in a neighborhood swallowed and spit out by the floods of Hurricane Katrina.