АҚШ-тағы колледжге дайындық мектептері желісі – KIPP

Network of college preparatory charter schools in the United States

KIPP was founded in 1994 by Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, two Teach For America corps members, influenced by educator Harriett Ball. KIPP was one of the charter school organizations to help produce the Relay Graduate School of Education for teacher training.

KIPP began in 1994 after co founders Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg completed their two year commitment to Teach For America. A year later, they launched a program for fifth graders in a public school in inner city Houston, Texas. Feinberg developed KIPP Academy Houston into a charter school, while Levin went on to establish KIPP Academy New York in the South Bronx.

Doris and Donald Fisher, co founders of Gap Inc., formed a partnership with Feinberg and Levin to replicate KIPP's operations nationwide.

If there are more applicants than seats available, KIPP students are admitted through a lottery system. After a student is selected from the lottery and the student decides that he or she would like to attend a KIPP school, a home visit is set up with a teacher or the principal of the school, who meets with the family and students to discuss expectations of all students, teachers and the parents in KIPP. Students, parents, and teachers are then all required to sign a KIPP commitment of excellence, agreeing to fulfill specific responsibilities, promising that they will do everything in their power to help the student succeed and go to college.

KIPP has extended school days to offer extra curricular activities, and some schools add three extra weeks of school in July. Most KIPP schools run from 7:30 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. Students spend that time in the classroom—up to 50 percent more time than in traditional public schools, depending on the region—and doing activities like sports, performing arts, and visual arts. Many of the activities KIPP offers might otherwise be inaccessible to students because of cost or scheduling issues. Because of this, the extended day offers students and families opportunities they might not get elsewhere.

In 2011, KIPP made a 10 year agreement with Baltimore Teachers Union following contentious negotiations around teacher work hours. Prior to reaching a contract, the charter network had advanced legislation to bypass collective bargaining and had threatened to close two schools in the city. In 2018, United Federation of Teachers won the right to represent teachers at a KIPP school in the South Bronx. In 2022, educators at KIPP High School in St. Louis voted to join a union within the American Federation of Teachers. In May 2023, educators at four KIPP schools in Columbus, Ohio formed a union with representation by Ohio Federation of Teachers.

In February 2018, Feinberg was removed from his position at KIPP due to sexual misconduct allegations involving a KIPP middle school student in the late 1990s and two KIPP employees in the early 2000s. Feinberg denied the accusation by the middle school student, and reached a financial settlement with one of the two KIPP employees. In 2022, it was revealed the KIPP's director of technology had embezzled $2.2 million which he spent on cars and sports memorabilia which was intended for laptops and other equipment. The official killed himself as the investigation was underway. KIPP claimed that the fraud was an isolated incident. KIPP's Houston charter schools were found to have charged parents unallowable and impermissible fees. Parents said they felt they were duped into what they understood would be a free education. KIPP claimed that the fraud was an isolated incident. Some for profit rivals have shied away from managing any brick and mortar schools and offer online curricula and other services. These companies, including Stride, Inc. and EdisonLearning, are known as education management organizations (EMOs). Stride was the largest in the US in 2011–2012.