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.
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 sc
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 sc
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 sc
school year that's longer by three weeks and a
school day that's extended by an hour in the FNE sc
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.