Featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on 60 minutes for its $140,000 teacher salaries and outstanding results, The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School aims to achieve educational equity for students from low-income families by utilizing world-class teachers. The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, located in the Washington Heights/Inwood community of NYC, serves students from Kindergarten through 8th grade. TEP reallocates the public funding it receives as a charter school to pay its teaching professionals an annual salary of $140,000, with the opportunity to earn a significant performance bonus. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, a rigorous long-term study found that TEP produced major achievement impacts, including test score gains equal to an additional 1.6 years of school in math, with significant gains in science and English. Learn more at www.tepcharter.org.
