We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at
nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.
Not exact matches
Most KIPP
middle schools do not have higher levels of attrition than
nearby district schools.
Nearby, the
district is partnering with the Eugene Family YMCA for another recreation venue where the soon - to - be-replaced Roosevelt
Middle School now stands.
Boasberg said the
district has used the SIG dollars allocated for Montbello and for
nearby Noel
Middle School to launch several smaller school programs, growing them one grade at a time, and to fund a school year that's longer by three weeks and a school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE schools.
That's just slightly higher than the 22 percent Algebra 1 course - taking rate for
middle - schoolers in
nearby D.C. Public Schools and lower than the 43 percent rate for kids in Alexandria's
district, both of which serve mostly poor and minority populations.