OKC Educators Use Model to Make Successful Charter School .

By Adrianna Iwasinski, NEWS 9

OKLAHOMA CITY - A new movie coming out called "Waiting for Dot" is providing examples of what is running at several inner city schools around the country. And one of them is a framework for a local charter school in Oklahoma City.

The Knowledge is Power Program, KIPP, is encouraging people to see the movie so they can take more nearly the challenges facing public schools and to urge them to get action to help foster change.

"We are consecrated to the case of improving education of inner city children," said KIPP reading teacher Kendal Grier. "We consider it to our core. We stay after school, we give up Saturday school, we let our phones on until 9 p.m. so our kids can visit us. So the tie is ever there."

KIPP Academy has 99 schools across the country, including one in Oklahoma City and it's not a typical middle school. KIPP is a free, open enrollment college prep school that currently has 277 students.

These students go to school from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. or longer during the week, two Saturdays a month and 3 weeks during the summer.

The train has rented out two theaters at Quail Springs Center for Tuesday's sneak peak of the movie "Waiting for Superman." They promise it will proceed to exhort their students to make hard for their success. Watch the "Wait for Superman" trailer.

Get free tickets to the "Wait for Superman" event.

The shoal has a course tape of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life.

The film also focuses on the lottery students must enroll in place to ensure a highly-coveted spot in a New York City school. Because news is spreading about KIPP Academy, it is currently at capacity and will get to go to a lottery system next year.

"This will be our first drawing in our ninth year of account at KIPP, and so I get mixed emotions about it," said KIPP OKC Founding Director Tracy McDaniel.