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KIPP SoCal Public Schools will continue its 18-year tradition of celebrating student creativity at the Museum of KIPP Art (MOKA) showcase and auction on Friday, May 31, from 6-8:30 p.m. at Spotify LA

The California Department of Education has recognized KIPP Adelante Preparatory Academy as a 2024 California Distinguished School

KIPP SoCal partners with the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk to convert eight of our school campuses into pop-up voting centers to bolster civic engagement

KIPP Scholar Academy will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 4, from 3-5:30 p.m., to celebrate the opening of its new state-of-the-art campus in South Los Angeles.

The report celebrates and highlights the network's 20-year journey of establishing 23 joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students for college, careers, and beyond.

Good Morning America featured three inspiring mariachi programs, including our KIPP Sol Mariachi band, for a special Hispanic Heritage Month segment highlighting how music connects students to their culture.

KIPP SoCal Public Schools will host a crucial conversation on Thursday, October 12, to build awareness around the educator workforce crisis impacting California’s public education sector.

ABC 10 News reporter Ciara Encina connected with KIPP Adelante Prep Academy teacher Benjamin Duran — who began his journey at KIPP Adelante as a TeachStart teaching fellow and is now teaching his first year of 8th-grade history as a full-time teacher.

Read more from Mathematica, an independent research firm, on the long-term impacts of attending a KIPP Public School middle and high school.

Mariachi band program news article

Our inspiring mariachi students and Mariachi Director, Ms. Arlette Morales, were recently featured on ABC, KTLA, Telemundo, and NBC to showcase their talent, passion, and deep appreciation for one another.

Student in purple graduation regalia with his arms crossed at the end of a long hallway

Princeton was rated by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 national university in the United States in 2023. It has fewer than 6,000 undergraduates and a low 4.4 percent applicant acceptance rate.

KIPP Philosophers Academy will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 15, 2023, from 4:30-6 p.m. to celebrate the opening of its new permanent campus in Watts.

KIPP SoCal Public Schools will host the 17th annual Museum of KIPP Art (MOKA) showcase and auction on Thursday, June 1, 2023, from 6-9 p.m. at the California Science Center.

One hundred percent of the program's graduates stay in the teaching profession. The California state-funded grant will allow KIPP SoCal to expand the program across the Southern California region.

By KIPP Public Schools We are excited to introduce the 2023 KIPP Federal Policy Fell...

Education Week spoke with KIPP Vida School Leader Amanda Tran and three additional Asian American school leaders about their career paths, what worked for them, and what recruiters should do to attract AAPI talent, some of whom may not even be thinking about education as a career path.

Education Week spoke with Asian American school leaders, including KIPP Vida School Leader Amanda Tran, about their career paths and why more AAPI talent may not even consider an education career.

KIPP Adelante Preparatory Academy—an award-winning, tuition-free, college preparatory charter public middle school that has been part of the San Diego community since 2003—will host a ribbon cutting ceremony on February 27, 2023, from 3-5 p.m., to celebrate the opening of KAPA’s new permanent campus in Southeast San Diego.

One local charter school group is going against the current grain. KIPP SoCal returned to mandatory masking early in December at its 24 local campuses. KIPP schools are in low-income minority communities hit especially hard by COVID.

Keenan Anderson, a Black high-school teacher and dad, died last week after being tased ...

The September 2021 shooting at the “crime magnet” motel flanked by two schools crystallized the urgent mission at hand for the campus community.

The Palms Motel on South Figueroa was once notorious for crime. Now, there's a plan to replace it with something different for everyone.

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Teachers, faculty and parents of KIPP SoCal Public Schools are celebrating having a safe space in South Los Angeles for their students to go to now that a motel that sat between the elementary and middle school is gone.

Parents and school officials celebrated the demolition of a seedy motel that sat in between two schools.