Election Day is coming soon, but Indiana’s deadline to register to vote is a month before the polls close. A group of teenagers took it upon themselves to remind the neighborhood around their school. KIIP Indy Legacy High School students…
With November elections fast approaching, New Orleans-area schools are urging students to register to vote. This week, the Orleans Parish School Board will consider a resolution that encourages schools to partner with organizations…
Citing challenges with turnover in school leadership, enrollment fluctuations, and continuous low performance, KIPP Durham College Prep is undergoing a “re-founding” process, a first of its kind blueprint effort across KIPP. A newly…
Most public school students return to classrooms the Thursday after Labor Day. But for hundreds of thousands of charter school students, class is already in session. That includes the city’s second-largest network, KIPP NYC, serving 8,000…
Ashira Jones perched on a blue chair only slightly above the heads of the five kindergarteners who sat cross-legged on a rainbow carpet, rapt as she pointed to spelling words. “What sound does Monday start with,” she asked the students at…
Two local educators are back in town after receiving national recognition. The KIPP St. Louis teachers were both awarded $10,000 each for excelling in the classroom. They had no idea they were being rewarded. Friday, families gathered for…
KIPP Wisdom Academy is beaming with pride as two of its teachers, Sonya Taylor and Erica Williams, have been recognized among the top 10 educators nationwide with the prestigious Harriet Ball Excellence in Teaching Award. “Every time I…
Nairobi Colón is an art teacher at KIPP Hatch Middle School in Camden, NJ, and entering their seventh year of teaching. They’re known as Teacher Robi to avoid gendered titles both in the classroom and on TikTok and Instagram, where they…
The once-vacant Macy’s store at the Global Mall in Antioch, which stood abandoned for decades, has found new life. This week marked a significant transformation as the old department store reopened its doors, not for shoppers, but for…
KIPP Atlanta Schools CEO Mini’imah Shaheed has been recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as one of Atlanta’s most admired CEOs. Read the full article here.
At a high school in upstate New York that had banned mobile phones, a student was constantly reaching for her non-existent device and grabbing air. Hallways rang with the sound of kids trying to smash locks and get to their devices. At…
The flawed rollout of the new federal financial aid application process has led to significant issues, with some students receiving reduced financial aid and others delaying their education plans altogether. As the next financial aid…
Ramon Montiel-García, a newly minted high school graduate from KIPP Northeast Denver Leadership Academy in Colorado, was accepted to his first-choice school, Wheaton College in Massachusetts. However, with a sticker price of nearly $80,000…
Three students from KIPP Troy Prep High School have been selected for a college prep program this summer at Georgetown University. Alanis Osorio, Nasir McMillian, and Lovette Thomas are attending Georgetown’s Summer College Immersion…
Deciding what to disclose in a personal essay for college applications has plagued students since, perhaps, the essay first became required. How should they present themselves? What do they think colleges need to know about them? Should…
Two Esperanza College Prep graduates have been awarded $60,000 in scholarships provided by the Dave Goldberg Scholars Program, according to KIPP So Cal Public Schools. Laisha Ajtun and George Perez, both from East L.A., are part of a group…
When you look at Jarell Lee’s credentials, you may assume he had everything easy. Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from a tony private high school. He then attended Harvard University where he earned a degree in sociology and…
Fifteen students nationwide are awarded the $60,000 Goldberg Scholarship to pursue a higher education! We follow one of those students who earned this prestigious scholarship. See how Lexie is planning for a successful future and how she…
As school districts nationwide grapple with a shortage of teachers and principals, innovative solutions are emerging in hopes of addressing the crisis. A recent survey conducted by the National Association of Secondary School Principals…
May is National Mental Health Month and students at KIPP Freedom Elementary School are learning how to practice mindfulness through the school’s Second Step program. The program aims to equip students with essential tools for emotional…
May has been quite the month for Amari Shepherd, 17. With a GPA of 4.86, she gave the valedictory speech at KIPP New Orleans’s Frederick A. Douglass High School’s graduation ceremony May 17. A few days before that, she had picked up an…
Thirty-four students from three KIPP New Orleans High Schools earned their associate degrees while still in high school. KIPP says students from Frederick A. Douglass, Booker T. Washington and John F. Kennedy high schools received their…
The Education Department is ramping up an outreach campaign to get high school seniors and college students to complete the federal financial aid application, trying to regain ground lost to months of delays and technical problems with the…
As enrollment deadlines approach, fewer students have figured out how they will afford college next year. Ongoing problems with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid have delayed financial aid award letters and even prevented…
College decision time is here. Admission letters have arrived, and more than a million high school students are weighing their options. The choice demands a lot from teenagers who, by and large, have never lived away from home. This time…
Adrian Antao is a high school English teacher at KIPP NYC. Adrian has worked with educators, coders and designers at the nonprofit Playlab.ai to develop Project Toni, an AI tool to support his students with their writing revisions. While…
There were just days left to process a batch of federal financial aid applications when Education Department officials made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from students all over the country, containing reams of essential data. They…
In the early morning in November, with a chill still in the air, three lines of cars inch across the open, cracked parking lot at the Sumter Mall in Sumter, S.C. It’s still hours before the doors open at Belk, a department store with roots…