"Welcome to the autocratic, for profit, opaque world of fraudulent corporate charter schools funded from the same public pot of money that supports public schools. Here is the legal theft of the century. the U. S. Government handed over at least $40,000,000 in taxpayer money to KIPP over a two year period from 2013 through 2014, it would seem appropriate, would it not, that the federal government provide the requested information to public watchdog groups. Their secrecy, however, took on new dimensions when the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) recently requested student enrollment and attrition information from the U. S. Department of Education." KIPPS hides most of that information from the public – something that no actual public school would be allowed to do... most teachers last less than three year and that the majority of entering 5th graders never reach 9th grade..."