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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
Activism club attends Moral March
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.
Sound instruction: New Orleans music teacher is up for a Grammy
Many KIPP charter school alumni face financial hurdles in college, survey shows
KIPP OKC students take on community leaders in a fundraising quiz-bowl challenge
KIPP preps new Halifax location
Latino community celebrates as KIPP LA Prep is honored as a National Blue Ribbon School