Reeves, senators tout charters on Arkansas visit

Reeves, senators tout charters on Arkansas visit

On the walls of the foyer that leads to the high school and middle school of the KIPP Delta Public Schools are banners from all of the universities its students are now attending.

There are four KIPP graduates at Vanderbilt University, one at the Naval Academy and numerous KIPP graduates at the local community college.

While 89 percent of its students come from poverty, 93 percent of the graduates of the K-12 school that opened in 2002 with a fifth-grade class are now in college or the military. That’s compared with the national rate of 8 percent of children in the lowest economic quartile who attend college.

djournal.com
12/5/12