... or computer programs. It will not provide funds, he said. The chairman of the charter school advisory committee is Scott Shirey, headmaster at Kipp Academy in Helena. The chair of the rural school advisory committee is Jimmy Cunningham, superintendent ...

... that those who had been trained could then take over other KIPP schools in nearby communities. Arkansas got lucky. Scott Shirey, the young man from Massachusetts and Teach for America who came to Helena to run the KIPP School in 2002, took an ...

... downtrodden Arkansas Delta, you may find yourself condescending before you know it. "From Mr. Shirey," they said. Scott Shirey, a Massachusetts transplant not long out of college himself, directs the Delta College Preparatory School in the old ...

... Work hard," "be nice" and, as it says on the T-shirts kids are required to wear, "There are no shortcuts." Scott Shirey, a 26-year-old native of Massachusetts who is school director, says sound education is not about class size ...