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KIPP Baltimore Teachers Get 2.5 Percent Raise

What remains of that corporate rag the Baltimore Sunreported this week that the KIPP teachers in Baltimore will now get 20.5% added to their salaries instead of the 18% previously paid them, even though the Baltimore KIPP teachers' 9.5 hour days (not counting the 2 hours of homework duty by phone each night) requires them to put in 33% more time at school than other Baltimore teachers. In addition to the 2.5% increase, KIPP, Inc. will now actually contribute to teacher retirement funds, and teachers will get $300 per year for classroom school supplies. Here's the way the Sun reported it:

KIPP Ujima Village Academy, the middle school, complied,

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