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HOUSTON (AP) - A national nonprofit charter school organization once featured on Oprah Winfrey's talk show said Tuesday it had raised $65 million toward a $100 million goal to greatly expand its presence in the Houston area.
Starting this summer, officials with the nonprofit Knowledge is Power Program Foundation said the money will be used to expand the Houston chain from eight schools and 1,700 students to 42 charter schools with 21,000 students over the next decade.
"Someone's got to step up and do it. Frankly, why not KIPP? Why not Houston? Why not now?" Mike Feinberg, co-founder of KIPP, said in a story in Tuesday's online edition of the Houston Chronicle. "Houston is very fertile ground in the country to do this work."
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