{"id":2625,"date":"2026-01-16T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:02:12","slug":"jay-kimmelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/jay-kimmelman","title":{"rendered":"Jay Kimmelman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/JayKimmelman.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Kimmelman\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com\/\">Bridge International Academies<\/a> is a private network of nursery and primary schools educating the poorest students in developing countries including Kenya, Uganda and India. Bridge charges families roughly six dollars per month for a pupil to attend school and uses economies of scale to keep costs low across its more than 400 academies.<\/p>\n<p>Jay speaks with Jessica Harris about how he and his wife Shannon are building their network of schools, from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/JayKimmelman-FromScratch-011626.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridge International Academies is a private network of nursery and primary schools educating the poorest students in developing countries including Kenya, Uganda and India. Bridge charges families roughly six dollars per month for a pupil to attend school and uses economies of scale to keep costs low across its more than 400 academies. Jay speaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}