Kudos to Dayna Perry for winning a KIPP Foundation award for excellence in teaching, Aug.1.
Dayna is a teacher at KIPP Philadelphia Elementary Academy, a charter school in North Philadelphia. The award was bestowed on 10 teachers nationwide based on track records in improving student performance, commitment to helping students succeed and leadership in the classroom and their schools. It comes with $10,000.
KIPP stands for the Knowledge Is Power Program and is a national nonprofit network of 162 charter schools that are focused on preparing students for college.
Charter schools — including cyber ones — along with homeschooling and vouchers are the future, and salvation, of education in this nation.
The red-tape filled, union-ruled public schools are dinosaurs that deserve the tar pit.