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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Schools Matter: KIPP's Take from Private Sources Since 2003: $308,999,543.00

Schools Matter: KIPP's Take from Private Sources Since 2003: $308,999,543.00:


KIPP's Take from Private Sources Since 2003: $308,999,543.00


The post below is from Cloaking Inequity by Julian Vasquez Heilig:

thToday I will profile Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools on The Teat. The Teat is an ongoing series on Cloaking Inequity (the protuberance through which milk is drawn from an udder or breast) that seeks to trace financial support which various entities receive that are involved in current educational policy debates.
The Teat Cow Haiku for today:
Every cow comes wrapped
in cowhide, but that does not
serve to hide the cow.
Cloaking Inequity exists because of KIPP. (For the full thread on KIPP go here) They released a response to a research study that focused on African American enrollment and leavers that was so