KIPP was awarded the third annual Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools

Kudos to KIPP, which was awarded the third annual Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools. I can’t wait for the KIPP Summit at the end of this month! This year it’s in Houston to celebrate KIPP’s 20^th anniversary.

Twenty years ago, two Teach for America alumni launched a small academy with 47 kids inside a traditional public school in Houston.

Today, KIPP academies are educating 58,000 kids in 20 states across the country and last week, the KIPP Foundation was awarded the third annual Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.

The $250,000 award is another feather in the cap of a charter-school network that for two decades has been bringing a high-quality education to an overwhelmingly low-income and minority population and now comprises 31 separate local organizations that run 162 public charter schools.

 http://nypost.com/2014/07/09/scaling-up-for-success-kipps-formula-for-great-schools/