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KIPP New Jersey | Miami

Part of KIPP Schools

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You will be overworked and underpaid in a Kipp t-shirt. - Teacher KIPP New Jersey | Miami Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

If you like stuff with the company logo, you'll have a ton of it. Lots of beautiful moments with wonderful kids.

Cons

High deductible health plan. No work/life balance. 8 hour school day where kids get one 15 minute recess. Large class sizes. Micromanaging is the only kind of managing. Encouraged/required to work through your preps. Must teach exactly their way. Lots of branded swag but low pay. Diversity means they want people of different colors to come force themselves into their mold- they do not want actual diversity. Required classroom management techniques are cruel to students from certain protected groups. PD for 3 hours every week, one full day every month, one week in the summer (two for new teachers). Weekly classroom observations no matter how long you've been teaching followed by a weekly meeting with your manager during your prep where there will always be something you did wrong. Cliquish admins. Asking for help will be used against you. Encouraged to inform on coworkers. Outdated curriculum. This is a "work hard play hard" and "we're a family" place. Problems or difficulties you try to resolve will be put back on you and used against you. Not much diversity in admin. Lots of students that need more support than CN be provided. PTO blackout days, a lot of them. No subs, strange coverage plans that create resentment when people use PTO.

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5.0
Sep 13, 2025
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Pros

Development is prioritized by the network

Cons

No real work life balance

1.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The silver lining was that I met some pretty awesome dear teacher friends, because we bonded through surviving the daily fire of working at KIPP Miami. Another pro was that I experienced an indescribable level of liberation once I left that toxic environment. Prior to joining this organization, I had never yearned so desperately for such a deep sense of freedom and relief. My prayers were answered when I finally had the opportunity to move on with my professional life.

Cons

-You will meet a child in an upper elementary grade who simply cannot read. Your educator heart will just hurt wondering, how is it possible that this child is so severely behind in reading after attending KIPP Miami for grades K-2? -Answer to the wondering above: Admin is known to change student grades. Teachers have been caught cheating student achievement data. -Enormous class sizes with non existent classroom support (30 students in one class with one teacher) -Teacher burn out (reports of teachers increasing anti depressant dosage and anxiety medication to cope) -Extremely high turnover rate (teachers walking out during their lunch break, dropping like flies in October, November, December) -3 principals in 3 years -Awful school operations -Students with IEPs not receiving the services they legally deserve (where’s the integrity?) -Title struck novice leadership who lack emotional intelligence and the necessary qualifications and experience to effectively run a school -HR that does not take appropriate action to stand up against verbal abuse or attempted physical intimidation from staff to staff -A teacher broke a student’s arm breaking up a fight (this was in the news, you can search it up) -A child suffered from a broken leg at the car line -Exhausting, draining long hours, multiple unnecessary meetings per week every week -Extensive micromanaging -KIPP Miami is excellent at sweeping unacceptable issues under the rug and they simply do not value their teachers. Hence why they are always hiring. It’s been about 8 years since they founded in Miami and they are ALWAYS hiring. Never ending revolving door of teachers in and out. Need I say more?

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