Sponsor to take close look at KIPP charter school

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By JOE ROBERTSON

The Kansas City Star

One of the nation’s fastest-growing charter-school models may be stumbling in Kansas City.

Concerns over the local management of the KIPP Endeavor Academy have prompted its sponsoring college to put the public school through the same kind of comprehensive site review the state conducts for struggling school districts.

According to state documents, the middle school did not establish programs to use certain federal money that will have to be returned. The school also has had too few classroom teachers meeting the state’s criteria for “highly qualified.”

Several parents have been pressing these and other issues, leading to a meeting today with the school board.



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1. These schools are such a joke. People think PS is terrible, just you wait my pretties.

I handle kids from these farm productions schools all the time and its appalling what these kids don't know.

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2. KIPP is a disaster

And it's especially galling because franchising a national brand is exactly the opposite of how charters should work.