KIPP Indianapolis: Too Connected to Corporate Power to Fail
If you don't know who Whitney Tilson is, he is to KIPP corporate fundraising what Jay Mathews is to KIPP media coverage: he is the go-to guy, connected at every cash-sensitive orifice to the philanthro-oligarchs who are always looking to avoid paying federal and state taxes by giving huge bundles of cash to the segregated and corporatized reform schooling movement, i. e. charter schools.
In December 2009, Tilson had this to say about his recent visit to KIPP Indianapolis:
. . . a small percentage of our schools don't live up to KIPP's high standards (and they are VERY high). KIPP Indianapolis was one such school.What would the typical school district do with an underperforming
