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...They recruit a lot of guys for speed,” Everett says. “They wanted me for my speed and hoped that I’d put on a little weight...
...actually my recruit,” Balestracci says. “I hosted him when he came [on a recruiting visit]. He’s a great kid. He’s a tremendous athlete...
Voucher systems are often disparaged, justly or unjustly, for selecting only the most talented children: for “creaming” the crop of students in the public schools. But KIPP schools are immune to this criticism: They are all open enrollment, and admit applicants (whom they recruit) through a merit-blind lottery system. As Witney points out, “We’ve got kids coming into fifth-grade who are still learning to read...
Like other KIPP principals, Ryan Hill of TEAM Academy in Newark, N.J., seeks a student body that is demographically representative of the local community. “We recruit in the projects near our school,” he tells me. Some 97 percent of the pupils at TEAM Academy are African-American; the rest are Latino. Indeed, the beneficiaries of KIPP schools nationwide are primarily lower-income non-Asian minorities...
...committee discussed methods to recruit and hire more minority staff members, particularly as mentors to the district’s large number of minority students...