School Sex-Abuse Report Shows Difficulty of Substantiating Claims KIPP Academy, an influential national charter network, released a report on Wednesday detailing accusations of sexual misconduct by two teachers at one of its New York City schools years ago. With the report, KIPP joined a growing list of schools, many of them private, that have responded publicly to allegations of abuse. That is a sharp departure from past decades, when many schools tried to keep such charges quiet. In KIPP’s case, two alumnae of KIPP Academy Middle School in the Bronx said two different teachers had abused them more than a decade ago. The network hired Debevoise & Plimpton, ... Continue reading... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/nyregion/kipp-nyc-charter-schools-debevoise-sex-abuse-report.html
