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Big changes at key charter school network go unnoticed in prevailing debate
In a long conversation with KIPP DC Executive Director Susan Schaeffler, the most successful charter leader in the city, I learned of significant changes in her network, sparked by an intense competition for teachers that the prevailing debate never mentions.
On a ‘Day Without Immigrants,’ workers show their presence by staying home
Some schools and child-care centers across the country experienced a drop in attendance. At KIPP Austin Comunidad, a majority-Hispanic charter school in Austin, Tex., one teacher posted on Twitter that only seven of her 26 students came to school on Thursday.
Beyond ‘Hidden Figures’: Nurturing new Black and Latino math whizzes
Skipping meals to afford books: College students’ financial woes go beyond tuition payments, survey shows
KIPP, a charter network with schools in New York, New Jersey and other cities, sends an average of 81 percent of its graduates to college. But, as the survey reveals, many struggle financially once they get there.
Many KIPP charter school alumni face financial hurdles in college, survey shows
Louisiana college students are about to lose half their scholarship money
TOPS is a “great, unique strength of the state” and a “huge benefit” for those students who may not otherwise be able to go to college, said Rhonda Kalifey-Aluise, director of the KIPP charter schools in New Orleans.
What the shift to restorative justice looked like in my KIPP school
Dear NAACP: Before your charter school vote, one Oklahoma parent wants to share his experience
When she wins, it’s a victory for Newark girls
For school community at KIPP Tulsa College Prep, death of Terence Crutcher is personal