Abstract
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) aims to create schools for historically underserved students that significantly increase the amount of instructional time and the efficiency of learning during that time. This report marks the end of the first year of a three-year study of five KIPP schools in the San Francisco Bay Area that opened between 2002 and 2004. The ultimate purpose of the study is to understand the extent to which these five Bay Area KIPP schools achieve their goals and the implications of the findings for other public schools.