"Knowledge Is Power Program shown as urban triumph" (USA Today, 02/11/09)

The Knowledge Is Power Program is a group of high-achieving public schools that has reshaped expectations about urban education. Out of one fifth-grade class in 1994, KIPP has grown to 66 schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia. It educates more than 16,000 children from preschool through high school, virtually all of them low-income.