242 Schools Across The Country
KIPP, the Knowledge is Power Program, is a non-profit network of 242 college-preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.
Our Approach
All children will learn and achieve at high levels if given the opportunity. Our goal is to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and character strengths they need to succeed throughout their education and in the competitive world beyond.
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More than
100,000Students currently enrolled in KIPP schools
More than
100,000Students currently enrolled in KIPP schools
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More than
12,000KIPP alumni currently attending college
More than
12,000KIPP alumni currently attending college
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3X
KIPP alumni graduate college at 3X the rate of their peers
3XKIPP alumni graduate college at 3X the rate of their peers
News & Press Center
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Closing Schools for Covid-19 Does Lifelong Harm and Widens Inequality
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When We Run Out of Normal, We Learn to Make Some
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Why being connected really matters for students
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Locked Out of the Virtual Classroom
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How The Government Can Help Students During School Closures
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A Mom’s View: Two Generations of School Choice Have Enabled My Newark Family to Meet the Challenges of Dyslexia and Thrive
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Charter Schools in Surprise Political Fight as Trump and Democrats Turn Away
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Honoring an educator for Black History Month
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Ellen’s Life-Changing Gift for Teacher Who Pampers His Students
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D.C.’s two biggest charter networks are growing. But how big is too big?
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Baltimore Students Take Part In Amazon’s First-Ever Future Engineer Robotics Camp
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Largest Gift in Howard University History to Fund Science and Technology
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Democrats, This Is Your Moment to Make Equity More Than a Slogan
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One Small Liberal Arts College is Showing The World How Higher Education Should Evolve
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A Colorado charter school network stationed an employee at CSU to guide its graduates through their college careers
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Relax, Relate, Release: D.C. Teacher Is Praised After Treating Young Students to a Self-Care Day
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An immigration question for Alexa? This teen Latina coder created a Skill for it
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Teaching black children to read is an act of social justice
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Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic Candidates Abandon Charter Schools
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Innovative Partnerships Are Key To The College Completion Crisis
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East Nashville teen aims to start food drive to help needy Metro Schools students and their families
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KIPP Middle School Students More Likely to Enroll in College, Seek 4-Year Degrees
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How environmental injustice in the Bronx convinced one student to organize a climate strike
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He wants charter fans and charter haters to unite for kids. Is he crazy?
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Charter school parents intervene in desegregation lawsuit. ‘Don’t scapegoat our schools,’ they say.
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Back to school but nothing’s normal. Schools mobilize to help children of immigrants after traumatic summer
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‘Far too many are still being left behind’: Getting into college isn’t enough
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KIPP Weighs In on Higher Education Act Rewrite, Calls on Congress to Make College More Accessible to Low-Income Kids
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Why Higher Education Act reauthorization must put more students on the path to college completion
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Who Wins When Public Schools Have Selective Admissions Policies?
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How to get more low-income kids through college: After Operation Varsity Blues, focus on what really matters
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‘Every child needs a champion’: Meet the teachers who inspired some of the country’s education leaders
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One of the first things they told us was that we all had the potential to go to college. I knew they meant it.
Lexi Johnson-Lee, Alumna, KIPP Minnesota Public Schools
One of the first things they told us was that we all had the potential to go to college. I knew they meant it.
Lexi Johnson-Lee, Alumna, KIPP Minnesota Public Schools -
I love watching our kids grow into young adults who will have a positive impact in their families, their communities, and their world.
Mike Lucas, Principal, KIPP Baltimore
I love watching our kids grow into young adults who will have a positive impact in their families, their communities, and their world.
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My students are the definition of resilience. Their hunger for a quality education motivates me daily to be a better teacher.
Robert Manuel, AP World History Teacher, KIPP New Orleans
My students are the definition of resilience. Their hunger for a quality education motivates me daily to be a better teacher.
Robert Manuel, AP World History Teacher, KIPP New Orleans
Work With Us
We have bold goals. We need incredibly talented and passionate people to help us reach them. Teach eager minds, work in key support roles, or even lead a KIPP school. Come grow with us.