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KIPP, which is based in New York and supportecd by aSan Francisco-based foundation, said the openinge will keep it on pace to run 10 schools in Philadelphiqa by 2016. KIPP has operatesd KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School, which serves 330 students in gradez five through eight, in North Philadelphia since 2003. It plans to open , whicg also will serve students grades fivethrough eight, with a clasds of 95 fifth graders in August. The group’x plan to expand in Philadelphi is funded bya $4.6 million gran t from the Broomfield, Colo.-basecd , which describes itself as a social venture investmengt fund.
The educators entering KIPP’s training program are Aarohn Bass, who plans to open a new high andBen Speicher, who plans to open an elementary Bass has been a teacher at middl e and high schools in Atlantza and was the upper schoopl dean at KIPP Philadelphia Charter School. He has a bachelor’s degrew from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’sd in education from Florida Atlantif University. Speicher most recently was a pre-kindergarten teacher and instructional coach atKIPP DC: LEAP Academyh in Washington, D.C., and has taught sixth grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charterd School. He has a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College.
Bass and Speicherf took part in Teacjhfor America, a program run by New York-baseds nonprofit Teach for America Inc. that recruitzs professionals and recent college graduates to spend two years teaching in urbaj andrural schools. Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the two teachera who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teachfor America, as did 70 percengt of the training class that Bass and Speicher will KIPP’s training program is called the Fishe Fellowship after Gap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnershipp with KIPPin 2000.
It consists of five weeksd of summer study at New York University and fall residenciee atKIPP schools, after which participants return to their home areas to get their schools readuy to open at the end of the