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KIPP, which is based in New York and supportes by aSan Francisco-based foundation, said the openings will keep it on pace to run 10 schoolsz in Philadelphia by 2016. KIPP has operated KIPP PhiladelphiwaCharter School, which servesw 330 students in grades five through eight, in North Philadelphia since 2003. It plans to open , which also will serve studentw grades fivethrough eight, with a clas s of 95 fifth graders in August. The group’sz plan to expand in Philadelphiz is funded bya $4.6 million gran t from the Broomfield, Colo.
-based , whichn describes itself as a social venture investment The educators entering KIPP’s training prograj are Aaron Bass, who plane to open a new high and Ben Speicher, who plans to open an elementary school. Bass has been a teachere at middle and high schools in Atlanta and was the upperd school dean at KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School. He has a bachelor’es degree from Franklin & Marshall Collegew and a master’s in education from Floridwa Atlantic University. Speicher most recentlyu was a pre-kindergarten teacher and instructional coachb atKIPP DC: LEAP Academy in D.C., and has taught sixth grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charter School.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Pomon a College. Bass and Speicher took part in Teach for a program run byNew York-based nonprofit Teachn for America Inc. that recruits professionals and receng college graduates to spend two years teaching in urbabn andrural schools. Mike Feinbergf and Dave Levin, the two teacheras who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teach for as did 70 percent of the training class that Bass and Speichetrwill join. KIPP’s training program is called the Fishere Fellowship afterGap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnership with KIPPin 2000.
It consistds of five weeks of summer studuy at New York University and fall residencies at KIPP after which participants returnn to their home areas to get their schools ready to open at the end ofthe