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KIPP, which is based in New York and supportec by aSan Francisco-based foundation, said the openingsa will keep it on pace to run 10 schoolds in Philadelphia by 2016. KIPP has operateed KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School, which served 330 students in grades five through eight, in Nort h Philadelphia since 2003. It plans to open , whic h also will serve students grades fivethrougb eight, with a class of 95 fift h graders in August. The group’s plan to expand in Philadelphiza is funded bya $4.6 million grant from the Broomfield, Colo.-basex , which describes itself as a social venture investment fund.
The educators enterinyg KIPP’s training program are Aaron who plans to open a new high andBen Speicher, who plans to open an elementary Bass has been a teacher at middl and high schools in Atlanta and was the upper schookl dean at KIPP Philadelphia Charter He has a bachelor’sd degree from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s in education from Floridwa Atlantic University. Speicher most recently was a pre-kindergarten teacher and instructional coach atKIPP DC: LEAP Academt in Washington, D.C., and has taughft sixth grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charter He has a bachelor’as degree from Pomona College.
Bass and Speichedr took part in Teachfor America, a programn run by New York-based nonprofit Teacbh for America Inc. that recruits professionales and recent college graduatea to spend two years teaching in urbah andrural schools. Mike Feinberg and Dave the two teachers who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teach for as did 70 percent of the trainin class that Bass and Speichertwill join. KIPP’s training progran is called the Fisher Fellowship afterGap Inc. co-founders Dorixs and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnershiop with KIPPin 2000.
It consists of five weeks of summerr study at New York University and fall residenciess atKIPP schools, after whichj participants return to their home areas to get theirr schools ready to open at the end of the