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KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program), a US network of college-preparatory schools; KIPP, a fictional character in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar; See also. Kip (disambiguation) Kipps (disambiguation) Kipp's apparatus or Kipp generator, a piece of laboratory glassware used for generating gases from a chemical reaction
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Mike Feinberg is a co-founder of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation. History [ edit ] Feinberg graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and later joined Teach For America (TFA), where he taught fifth grade for three years.
Ball's chant of "Knowledge is power, power is money, and I want it," became the namesake of KIPP. KIPP now serves about 27,000 children in 20 different states, and the District of Columbia, and 99 schools. Ball went on to teach in the Houston and Austin, Texas school districts for a total of 35 years.
KIPP SoCal ("SoCal" means Southern California) is a charter school operator associated with KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program). KIPP LA, serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area , was founded in 2003 with two middle schools and now consists of 15 schools.
KIPP: Delta Public Schools is a charter school operator supported by the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) based in Helena–West Helena, Arkansas, USA. The system consists of three schools in Phillips County and one facility in Mississippi County . As of 2018, under an agreement with the State of Arkansas, the schools may enroll no more than ...
KIPP Academy Lynn (often referred to as KIPP Lynn) is modeled after the nationally recognized Knowledge Is Power Program in South Bronx, New York and Houston, Texas. It's a free, public middle school that opened its doors on August 9, 2004 to its first class of fifth graders. They added sixth graders in the 2005-2006 school year, and seventh ...
Members of the founding team include value investor Whitney Tilson, former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Douglas Shulman, and president and CEO of Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Richard Barth. Since the first corps was established in 1990, more than 42,000 corps members have completed their commitment to Teach For America.