Gary Rubinstein: The Incredible Shrinking and Failing KIPP Schools in Tennessee
Gary Rubinstein began his career as a Teach for America recruit in 1991 and got to know many of the key figures in the corporate...
Category : KIPP Charter Schools
A Former KIPP Student, Teacher, and Parent Decries Oppressive Control of Students’ Minds and Bodies
Frances Scarlen Martinez was one of the first students to attend the first KIPP school in the Bronx. David Levin came knocking on her family’s...
Being Black at KIPP
This message came from an educator who studies racial equity: From: Being Blackatkipp Subject:Being Black at KIPP To whom it may concern, BeingblackatKIPP is an...
Gary Rubinstein: Another Sex Scandal at KIPP
Gary Rubenstein has written about the failed promises of charter schools many times. In this post, he reports on the latest sex scandal at KIPP....
Mike Klonsky on KIPP’s Rebranding
KIPP is the largest charter chain in the nation. It grew thanks to the generosity of the Walton Foundation, the Fisher Family Foundation (the Gap,...
Memphis: Two KIPP Charters Close Suddenly, Stranding Students
David Pettiette is a CPA who volunteered at a KIPP elementary school in Memphis. He was shocked when two KIPP schools suddenly closed their doors...
Gary Rubinstein: KIPP Flees the Edsel of School Reform in Tennessee
Gary Rubinstein reports that KIPP has taken advantage of the coronavirus shutdown of schools to close two of its charters in the ill-fated “Achievement School...
Gary Rubinstein: More Reform-Funded Nonsense About KIPP Graduation Rates
Gary Rubinstein is the Myth-Buster of the Resistance. He has achieved this eminent position because of his intolerance for hype, propaganda, and lies. In this...
Gary Rubinstein: That Misleading KIPP Research about College Completion
Gary Rubinstein has a deep aversion to hypocrisy, hypes, and propaganda. He read a widely publicized report saying “research shows” that graduates of KIPP have...
D.C.: KIPP’s Sweet Deal in the District of Columbia to Scoop Up Closed Public Schools
Parent activist Valerie Jablow is a whistle-blower about charter school abuse in the District of Columbia. In this post, she describes the sweet deal that...