Sentences with phrase «national charter network»

Born in Houston as the Knowledge Is Power Program for middle schoolers, KIPP is now the biggest and best - known national charter network, educating 88,000 students in 209 schools nationwide.

With more than 160 schools across the United States, KIPP is one of the largest national charter networks.

Within a decade, KIPP, a national charter network, plans to have 10 schools in the District, with a total of 3,400 students.

Knowledge is Power Program, a national charter network founded in Houston more than two decades ago, helped eight charter operators in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston join forces with local public school districts.

The national charter network Uncommon Schools held a day - long professional development session for 200 district school teachers in Brooklyn on Tuesday, the second of four yearly training sessions in New York City.

Still, the administration turned down a national charter network founded in Las Vegas that faced questions about its operations elsewhere, and also rejected a proposal for what would have been the first conversion of an existing district school to a charter.

It was already a month into the school year and Lighthouse Academies, a national charter network in five states and the District of Columbia, faced a slim, picked - over field of candidates to replace her.

Helton is also CEO for TeamCFA, a national charter network that runs 13 schools in North Carolina.