We know that KIPP's high attrition among students and teachers has been documented since 2008, even though KIPP has gone to great lengths to hide the facts that most teachers last less than three year and that the majority of entering 5th graders never reach 9th grade.
Their secrecy, however, took on new dimensions when the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) recently requested student enrollment and attrition information from the U. S. Department of Education.
Since the U. S. Government handed over at least $40,000,000 in taxpayer money to KIPP over a two year period from 2013 through 2014, it would seem appropriate, would it not, that the federal government provide the requested information to public watchdog groups.
But, then, KIPP is not just any corporate charter chain. The KIPP Model of "no excuses"schools is the chosen model among white philanthropists and investors, hedge funds, and businessmen for a 21st Century indoctrination of the poor that is based on cultural/character scrubbing and neurological re-wiring of children to make them immune to effects of poverty. It is an aggressive and profitable agenda that hopes to re-shape urban education into a tool of paternalistic exploitation.
When CMD requested student attrition information about KIPP schools, ED bowed to KIPP's request to redact all information related to student attrition. Would any of those Congressmen who demand public school accountability interested in knowing why the U. S. Education Department will not release this information? After all, these are public charter schools, right?
Click charts to enlarge, although there is not much to see.
Their secrecy, however, took on new dimensions when the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) recently requested student enrollment and attrition information from the U. S. Department of Education.
Since the U. S. Government handed over at least $40,000,000 in taxpayer money to KIPP over a two year period from 2013 through 2014, it would seem appropriate, would it not, that the federal government provide the requested information to public watchdog groups.
But, then, KIPP is not just any corporate charter chain. The KIPP Model of "no excuses"schools is the chosen model among white philanthropists and investors, hedge funds, and businessmen for a 21st Century indoctrination of the poor that is based on cultural/character scrubbing and neurological re-wiring of children to make them immune to effects of poverty. It is an aggressive and profitable agenda that hopes to re-shape urban education into a tool of paternalistic exploitation.
When CMD requested student attrition information about KIPP schools, ED bowed to KIPP's request to redact all information related to student attrition. Would any of those Congressmen who demand public school accountability interested in knowing why the U. S. Education Department will not release this information? After all, these are public charter schools, right?
Click charts to enlarge, although there is not much to see.
Wow. Pretty damning stuff.
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