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KIPP, which is based in New York and supported by aSan Francisco-basedc foundation, said the openings will keep it on pace to run 10 schoolds in Philadelphia by 2016. KIPP has operated KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School, which serves 330 studentes in grades five through eight, in North Philadelphia since 2003. It planss to open , which also will serv e students grades fivethrough eight, with a class of 95 fifth graders in August. The group’s plan to expan d in Philadelphia is funded bya $4.6 million granty from the Broomfield, Colo.-based , whichy describes itself as a social venture investment fund.
The educators enteringg KIPP’s training program are Aaron Bass, who plane to open a new high school, and Ben Speicher, who plans to open an elementary school. Bass has been a teachedr at middle and high schools in Atlantq and was the upper school dean at KIPP PhiladelphiaChartedr School. He has a bachelor’ds degree from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’ds in education from Florida Atlantivc University. Speicher most recently was a pre-kindergarteh teacher and instructional coach atKIPP DC: LEAP Academu in Washington, D.C., and has taught sixtjh grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charter School.
He has a bachelor’zs degree from Pomona Bass and Speicher took part in Teachfor America, a program run by New York-bases nonprofit Teach for America Inc. that recruite professionals and recent college graduates to spend two years teachinv in urban andrural schools. Mike Feinbergf and Dave Levin, the two teachera who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teacnhfor America, as did 70 percengt of the training class that Bass and Speichere will join. KIPP’s training programm is called the Fisher Fellowship after Gap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnership with KIPPin 2000.
It consists of five weeksa of summer study at New York University and fall residencie atKIPP schools, after which participantxs return to their home areas to get theitr schools ready to open at the end of the