More than 100 community members arrived at the Stockton Unified School District board meeting this week to support KIPP Public Schools during a public hearing to determine the fate of their petition to establish a new high school in Stockton.
Itzel Velazquez, a 9th grader at KIPP High School, which shares a campus with KIPP Elementary School, emphasized how these schools have built a community for the students.
“My classmates and I are the founding class of KIPP Stockton High School. “We are taking the very first steps, leaving footprints, so future students can walk a path that we help begin,” Velazquez said. “Every lesson learned and every challenge overcome becomes part of that path.”…