Wednesday, April 18, 2012

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - KIPP IS A GIP

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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy

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Nov 10, 2011 – DENVER – An assistant football coach at KIPP Sunshine Peak Academy has been fired after being accused of making an online sexual ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Endeavor Academy ...

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May 2, 2011 – Concerns over the local management of the KIPP Endeavor Academy have prompted its sponsoring college to put the public school through ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP - Knowledge is Power ...

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Apr 6, 2011 – KIPP charter middle schools enroll a significantly higher proportion of African-American students than the local school districts they draw from, ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Academy Charter School ...

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Sep 24, 2010 – The KIPP Academy Charter School's director took the entire teaching staff on a five-day Caribbean retreat at the end of the school year for two ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Gaston College Preparatory

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Oct 3, 2010 – As many have undoubtedly already heard, 10 KIPP football players have been suspended for Friday's game for their role in a fight last week on ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP AMP Academy Middle School

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Nov 1, 2010 – After wrestling down a unionization attempt and struggling with academic performance, a Brooklyn KIPP school is bringing in a new principal ...
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Impact Middle School

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Jul 9, 2011 – "New Jacksonville KIPP charter scores at bottom in FCAT. ... KIPP Impact Middle, a college preparatory school, earned an F in its opening year.
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Ujima Academy (Baltimore ...

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Apr 6, 2011 – KIPP's model requires a longer-than-typical 9 1/2-hour school day, which has caused tensions with the union, in order to achieve its results: ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Single schools

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KIPP Academy Charter School (Bronx, NY) KIPP Academy – Fresno,CA · KIPP AMP Academy Middle School ... KIPP Gaston College Preparatory (Gaston, NC) ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Bay Area KIPP schools

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Aug 26, 2010 – A new study of the five Bay Area KIPP schools by the respected research firm SRI International confirms what we already knew: KIPP students ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP South Fulton Academy

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May 17, 2010 – KIPP leaders said no child was maltreated. Pryor and Kinney said they ended the punishment and apologized to parents and students.

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Academy in Fresno

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May 17, 2010 – Students and parents lined the streets outside the KIPP Academy in Fresno, outraged over the recent and sudden resignation of their principal ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Indianapolis College ...

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Aug 11, 2010 – Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) College Preparatory School faces its seventh—and final—review this year, a review that could determine ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP Tech Valley Charter School

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Oct 7, 2010 – By the numbers, KIPP Tech Valley Charter School is Albany's best public school. Virtually every eighth-grader passed the 2009 English and ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: KIPP San Antonio

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Jul 5, 2010 – Leaders of KIPP San Antonio, a branch of one of the most successful charter school programs in the country, are reeling after learning a former ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: ASPIRA, Inc. of Illinois

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Apr 2, 2012 – Samantha Kipp, an ASPIRA teacher and council president of the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, presented a litany of ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Paramount School of Excellence

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Apr 14, 2011 – According to the lawsuit brought by KIPP, Ion360 pressured the ... It's unclear whether KIPP Charter Academy investigated Snowden prior to ...

CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Charter school studies +

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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Gulen charter school list

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NYC Public School Parents: "At KIPP, I would wake up sick, every ...

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Mar 22, 2012 – A few months ago, Class Size Matters met with a former KIPP student who lives in the Bronx and her mother to hear about their experiences at ...
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KIPP | Seattle Education

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Jan 20, 2012 – This is how KIPP, Inc., one of the charter chains being mentioned in our state, and a non-profit corporation, was spending their money a few ...
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Big Education Ape: A former KIPP teacher comments on her ...

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Mar 25, 2012 – I've been following KIPP and several articles that I have come across are listed in the right column of this blog under “KIPP”. It could possibly be ...

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Hechinger Report | New study of KIPP says the charter chain pulls in ...

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Mar 31, 2011 – The possibility that KIPP is getting more money per student than its traditional-school counterparts also raises the question of whether it's ...
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A former KIPP teacher comments on her experience | Seattle ...

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Mar 25, 2012 – KIPP is one of the charter school franchises that's been tossed ... the following comment written by a former KIPP teacher that I wanted to share ...
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Big Education Ape: CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS - KIPP IS A GIP

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17 minutes ago – May 2, 2011 – Concerns over the local management of the KIPPEndeavor Academy have prompted its sponsoring college to put the public ...

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How to Spin a Story — Jay Mathews on KIPP Problems | AMPS

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Mar 20, 2009 – Much of the case for KIPP, as made by Mathews and others, rests on standardized test scores (at one point in this piece Mathews writes: “All ...
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Goodbye, Harriett – she gave the KIPP to KIPP | The Transformation ...

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Big Education Ape: Schools Matter: Why Students Call KIPP the Kids ...

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Mar 23, 2012 – This account mirrors some of the same themes that emerge from the interviews I am doing with former teachers of KIPP. Note that special ...

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General info http://www.kipp.org/reportcard/2010. In 2010 report card, they admit that "AKIPP school with great test scores—but high student attrition—is not ...
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Charter School Teaching: Similar to or Different than Regular Public Schools? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Charter School Teaching: Similar to or Different than Regular Public Schools? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Charter School Teaching: Similar to or Different than Regular Public Schools?

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Since 1991 when Minnesota launched the first charter schools, the movement to create publicly funded charters freed from district rules where parents can choose to send their children has spread to 40 states (and the District of Columbia) enrolling almost two million students (nearly four percent of all public school students) in over 5,000 schools (over five percent of all public schools). Most charter schools are located in urban districts with one-quarter to one-third of all students enrolled in charters. In some cases such as New Orleans, the majority of children and youth attend charter schools.
The theory driving charter schools is that schools unchained from district policies (including union contracts) for three to five years would have legal, budgetary, and organizational autonomy to steer its own course and, through innovative changes, increase the quality of schooling. Moreover, charter schools would be held accountable to the market—parents and students choose to attend—and to stipulations in the charter itself to

The imaginary link between immigration and immorality

The imaginary link between immigration and immorality:

The imaginary link between immigration and immorality

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My mother came to America from El Salvador. My paternal grandparents came from Europe. Each one immigrated legally, which is the essence of the American experience – huddled masses yearning to be free and all that.

However, in the eyes of many Americans, my mother and grandparents were selfish and immoral. After all, whenever a debate starts up aboutimmigration, it’s just a matter of time before someone says, “They need to stay and fix their own countries instead of coming here.”

The implication is that people have an ethical obligation to remain in their homelands rather than try to improve their own lives. Of course, none of the Americans saying this have ancestors who took that advice. As soon as Ireland ran a little low on potatoes, for example, lots of people said “see ya” rather than stick around for the sake of rescuing Belfast.

In fact, the United States would not exist if everybody stayed home to fix his or her own nation.This place would be nothing but Native Americans, lost Canadians and a stray Mexican or two. So, why would anyone make this argument, which is so easily refuted by pointing to their own familial history? The reason is simple: many people want to establish a connection

Raising little Americans with Latino pride

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As a Colombian-American raising two children with a gringo husband, I’ve come to appreciate that we come from vastly different backgrounds. American and Latino families tend to have different expectations and traditions when it comes to raising children. We tend to be loud, gregarious and tight-knit, which can be overwhelming. Given that fact, it’s important… [Continue Reading]

- Wait, What? CSI:Turns out GNEPSA stands for We Got A Match by jonpelto

- Wait, What?:

CSI: We Got A Match

by jonpelto

Turns out GNEPSA stands for the Great New England Public Schools Alliance.

Or, if you squint your eyes really tight, you might also see the words StudentsFirst.

Brian Lockhart, of the Stamford Advocate, Hearst Newspaper wrote a story entitled “StudentsFirst … I mean GNEPSA … sends out slick mailer” (click the title to read).

Lockhart is the first reporter to examine the intrigue behind the GNEPSA/StudentsFirst issue.

Linking to a Wait, What? blog post about GNEPSA, Lockhart, on his blog entitled Political Capitol, shines a bright light on the StudentsFirst connection writing “what’s interesting is while GNEPSA is a new name in what some have called the “education reform alphabet soup,” it’s not. As others have also pointed out, GNEPSA’s filing with the Office of State Ethics lists seven in-house lobbyists on GNEPSA’s payroll with email addresses linking them to another group –California-based StudentsFirst. And one of those lobbyists is StudentsFirst’s founder, Michelle Rhee.”

Lockhart adds “I’m just wondering why StudentsFirst decided to create a new group –

Stand ON Children First: New AstroTurf from Teacher in the Box

Just Like Michelle Rhee's Students first only BETTER

Astroturf lobbying refers to political organizations or campaigns that appear to be made up of grassroots activists but are actually organized and run by corporate interests seeking to further their own agendas. Such groups are often typified by innocent-sounding names that have been chosen specifically to disguise the group's true backers

Just Like Michelle Rhee's
Students first Astroturf lobbying (only Better)
we support:

Promoting voucher programs that drain public schools of resources by using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school profits, and specifying that those schools must remain unregulated.

Offering private school vouchers with “universal eligibility” (using taxpayer dollars to subsidize private schools for the rich and others); “means-tested eligibility,” (using poverty as the first domino in an effort to privatize public schools ; and “universal eligibility with means-tested scholarship.” (Here, “scholarship” means using taxpayer dollars to pay private school tuition and/or profits.)

Creating a scheme to deem public schools “educationally bankrupt” to rationalize giving taxpayer dollars to almost completely unregulated private schools, rather than addressing any problems.

Setting up low-income students for failure in college by incentivizing early graduation for students in need of a complete high school education.

Certifying individuals with no education background as teachers, a move that would weaken the quality of education, that fails to recognize there is more to teaching than knowledge of a subject, and that would undermine the role and competitiveness of professional teachers.

Eliminating tenure for teachers in favor of “performance,” allowing districts to fire older teachers in favor of lower-cost young teachers.

Undermining teacher’s unions.

Schools Matter: Special Ed Child Forced to Take Test, Mom Threatened by School Officials in Oceanside, NY

Schools Matter: Special Ed Child Forced to Take Test, Mom Threatened by School Officials in Oceanside, NY:

Special Ed Child Forced to Take Test, Mom Threatened by School Officials in Oceanside, NY

by Jim Horn

If you had a child with special needs who struggled to learn and who was stressed out about the upcoming state test, would you consider opting out? Christine Dougherty did in Oceanside, NY, and she notified the school.

She did not expect the reply she got, however, with a threatening rebuttal and an accusation of "educational neglect" --along with a threat by the principal, Mr. Capone, to call Child Protective Services if Joseph was opted out.

Then Mr. Capone, the principal, forced Christine's son, Joseph, to take the test without the conditions set out in his Individual Education Plan (IEP).

Below is the story in letters posted at UOO:

At United Opt Out National, we encourage opting out of high stakes testing because we support

Report on New York City School District: “A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City” « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Report on New York City School District: “A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City” « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

Report on New York City School District: “A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City”

by millerlf

Schott Foundation report April 2012
The New York City public school system is the largest in the country, with responsibility for educating more than 1 million children.
The ability of the New York City public schools to meet that responsibility holds national significance. The high national profile of the city’s education reforms in recent years, and the much-echoed calls for replication in other cities, offer strong evidence of this.
Unfortunately, the city’s public school system is failing to meet its responsibilities for most of its students — particularly for Black and Latino students, and for students from low-income families. While New York will claim increases in graduation rates, yet less than 18 percent of black and brown students are proficient in reading on the National Assessment test and over two-thirds of those who graduate must pay thousands of dollars in higher

Charter schools' hidden agenda | Guest Writer | Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art

Charter schools' hidden agenda | Guest Writer | Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art:

Charter schools' hidden agenda

What happens when there is little accountability?

by Paul M. Hewitt

A recent study by researchers at Western Michigan University revealed an unpleasant side of the charter school movement. Charter schools are privately operated schools that receive tax dollars from the state for each student they enroll. The advocates for charters like to frame them as public schools offering an alternative to the "other public schools." In fact they are private schools unencumbered by many of the laws that local public schools must follow and the same oversight. For example, charter schools do not have elected school boards accountable to the local community.

What happens when there is little accountability? The study from Western Michigan provides one insight.

The Western Michigan Study looked at data from 60 of the 99 Knowledge Is Power

A Child is Forced to Test: Where is Mainstream “Liberal” Media? | United Opt Out National

A Child is Forced to Test: Where is Mainstream “Liberal” Media? | United Opt Out National:

A Child is Forced to Test: Where is Mainstream “Liberal” Media?

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At United Opt Out National, we encourage opting out of high stakes testing because we support public schools. We support real learning and real teaching and a whole and equitable education for all children. High stakes testing is not just any test – it is a test used to punish students, teachers, schools and communities. It is a test that profits billionaires and neglects children – denying students real learning. It is a test that is being used to privatize public education. Also, we believe that everyone has a moral obligation to protect children from the harmful tactics currently being used by corporate education reformers – high stakes testing being only one of the tactics. Yet – this particular tactic holds great weight. We know that if everyone opts out of high stakes testing, they will not have the data to punish o

Left In Alabama:: If Public Schools Could Operate Like Charter Schools.....

Left In Alabama:: If Public Schools Could Operate Like Charter Schools.....:

If Public Schools Could Operate Like Charter Schools.....

by: countrycat

Tue Apr 17, 2012 at 15:12:20 PM CDT

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is one of the largest charter school companies in the US & has shown significant gains in student achievement. Once you look closely at their operations, their success isn't surprising. Would that model work for public schools? alabama charter schools

KIPP began in 1994 when two Teach for America teachers decided to create a program to engage middle school students. As any parent or teacher can tell you, that's a rough age. The kids aren't cute little elementary students and they aren't more mature high schoolers who have an idea of college or career plans. They're in the middle of a transition from childhood to young adulthood.
The founders targeted the most disadvantaged group of Middle Schoolers and they were successful:

They deliberately organized their program to serve low- income children, mostly minorities. Today, more than 75% of KIPP students nationwide are eligible for the federal free and

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The imaginary link between immigration and immorality

Stand ON Children First: New AstroTurf from Teacher in the Box

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What happens when there is little accountability?

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Tue Apr 17, 2012 at 15:12:20 PM CDT