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San Francisco Examiner | "Kudos: Javonte Holloway"
Staff | August 8, 2008
The eighth-grader at KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy is among 10 students nationwide to receive the Doris Fisher Award, a $10,000 scholarship.
San Francisco Business Times | "Businesses invest in charter
school innovation: Bay Area is hotbed for giving to new
education models"
By Sarah Duxbury | July 18, 2008
The entrepreneurial urges and massive wealth of
Bay Area Business folk are fueling a revolution in
public education.
The Mercury News | "Charter School Quandry; Low per-pupil funding may halt a network's expansion"
By Donna Hull | May 13, 2008
KIPP, the popular charter school network known for high test scores and a rigorous curriculum, is opening a new high school in East San Jose this summer.
The Mercury News | "Smart vs. cool: Culture, race and ethnicity in Silicon Valley schools"
By Sharon Noguchi and Jessie Mangaliman | April 06, 2008
Sandra Romero and Bibiana Vega do their best to shrug off taunts from fellow Latino classmates at Del Mar High School in San Jose.The 17-year-old seniors are called "whitewashed." Mataditas - dorks. Cerebritas - brainiacs. They're told they're "losing their culture" - just because Sandra has a 4.0 grade-point average and Bibiana has a 3.5. The put-downs are clear: Smart is not cool.
San Francisco Chronicle | "Spelling bee winners display skills gleaned at charter schools"
By Heidi Benson | October 24, 2007
The first of the 10 contestants slipped on "margarine." By the spelling bee's ninth round, just
two students were standing. The tension was thick and A's manager Billy Beane - one of the
guest judges of the second annual KIPP Bay Area Academy Spelling Bee - pitched a word to
Danielle Phan, 13. "Correlate," she repeated. "C-O-R-R-E-L-A-T-E. Correlate." Cool and
confident, Danielle looked like the winner until Javonte Holloway, 13, took the microphone.
KGO ABC 7 News | "KIPP Success Spawns New High School"
Written and Produced by Jennifer Olney | October 15, 2007
SAN LORENZO, Calif., Oct. 15, 2007 (KGO) - For the past five years, we've been following the
progress of a national chain of charter schools called KIPP, helping low-income students find
academic achievement. KIPP is based in the Bay Area and, in this Focus on Solutions report,
we look at how they are expanding their middle school success to high school.
KGO ABC 7 News | "KIPP Charter Schools Show Remarkable Progress"
Written and Produced by Jennifer Olney | October 11, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2007 (KGO) - One of the most persistent problems in education has
been the achievement gap between the "have" and "have nots" in public schools. For the past
five years, we've been following a chain of charter schools that opened in the Bay Area with the
goal of closing that gap. We examine their remarkable progress in this Focus on Solutions
report.
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