Investment expected to allow 100,000 additional students to attend quality charter schools over next three years

More than 50,000 students in Florida will receive a Tax Credit Scholarship to attend a high-quality private school by 2014

The Walton Family Foundation is proud to announce a $25 million investment in the KIPP Foundation to double the number of students attending KIPP public charter schools across the country, enabling the organization to expand to serve 59,000 students by 2015. By expanding access to high-quality educational options for families in underserved communities across the United States, KIPP is helping to transform public education in our nation.

Growing demand for high-quality educational options leads to increase in investment and momentous legislative advances in the education reform movement

Largest Single-Year Investment in Indianapolis Education Reform Causes to Date as Foundation Adds City to Top 16 Investment Site List

Walton Family Foundation investment in GreatSchools yields families applying to higher-performing schools in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Investment to support the creation of more than 2,000 new, high-performing schools and closure of at least 900 low-performing public charter schools

Demand for high-quality school options leads largest private funder of charter school startups to support the creation of 1,437 schools since 1997

Investment to Localize School Rating System and Expand On-The-Ground Efforts

Forthcoming Paper in the Journal of School Choice Finds Charter School Students Receive One-Third Less PerPupil Funding in Five Key Regions