Kinder, graphic designer Dard Hunter, coppersmith Karl Kipp and painter Otto Schneider, among others.
Our first year in Houston, two-thirds of students came to KIPP with a "bilingual" label.
Nearly 80% of students completing eighth grade at a KIPP school go on to attend college.
Like other KIPP schools, this one relies heavily on a call-and-response style of teaching.
Due to the dedication of KIPP teachers, Rocio's case is not an isolated success story.
Various critics have floated the idea that KIPP should take over an entire district.
That was important to Robichaux, to keep with KIPP's focus on serving impoverished kids.
In April 2006 state officials cleared the plan to form a KIPP charter school at McDonogh 15.
At the KIPP Believe College Prep school, teacher Scarlet Feinberg is putting her new students through their paces.
We created the nonprofit KIPP Foundation to recruit, train and support educators to open and operate KIPP schools.
KIPP, America's largest chain of charter schools, shows that non-profit organisations can grow and succeed in poor areas.
At lunchtime, the KIPP BELIEVE kids review their times tables by reciting a chant they repeat throughout the day.
The teachers who are working at schools like KIPP Believe don't have time for much of a social life.
To their great credit, KIPP recently released a remarkable report on the college completion rates of its students.
Twelve years ago, Rocio Mendoza entered KIPP Academy as a fifth-grader in Houston.
And then a new Golkar-associated group, TOPP, said it would watch over KIPP.
Two idealistic and frustrated teachers, Mike Feinberg and David Levin, broke away from the public school system and started KIPP.
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Sweden's ambassador to Syria, Catharina Kipp, said no staff members were inside the building because the staff is on holiday.
It's one way to keep the attention of ten-year-olds who are expected to stay focused for KIPP's nine-and-a-half-hour long school day.
Mike Feinberg is co-founder of KIPP, a network of 57 public charter schools across the U.S. serving poor and minority students.
Still, the results overall are generally positive and they confirms other studies that have also found good results from KIPP schools.
Golkar chief and Information Minister Harmoko declared the group, known as KIPP, unconstitutional, though he made no move to ban it.
So, as you can see, the KIPP schools studied do show significant attrition, and the comparable public schools show no such pattern.
They found 25 of the 120 students and were able to get a few of them into a KIPP school in Houston.
There is no conclusive data on KIPP or any other charter school.
"These guys are my heroes--the kids, the teachers, " says KIPP cofounder Feinberg.
The average student enters KIPP two years below grade level in fifth grade, and leaves KIPP in eighth grade achieving at a ninth-grade level.
In 2000, Dave and I were approached by Don and Doris Fisher, founders of the Gap, to replicate the success of KIPP schools nationwide.
The KIPP schools have radically redesigned the school day and school week, extending hours and even the number of days that children attend school.
KIPP, an organization of sixty-six public charter schools across the country.
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