Saturday, August 25, 2012

The KIPP Boast « Diane Ravitch's blog

The KIPP Boast « Diane Ravitch's blog:


The KIPP Boast

Jonathan Schorr
I challenged KIPP to take over an impoverished district and to show how their methods could work for all children–the ELLs, the special ed, all kids–not just those whose parents entered a lottery. Jonathan Schorr responded by saying that would be abandoning their original mission. His snarky (and insulting) response appears as a comment on the original post. Schorr works for the billionaire-funded NewSchools Venture Fund.
This is a comment from Parents Across America activist Caroline Grannan in San Francisco, who has written extensively about the parent trigger:
As the blogger who did the first known research exposing KIPP’s eye-popping attrition, I think Linda has it right.