by kippadmin | Jun 26, 2011 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
You can get a good read on a school the moment you step through the doors. Are the students working hard or goofing off? Are they carrying books or not? Are teachers and administrators in the hallways and out of their offices? The first impression of the new KIPP...
by kippadmin | Dec 30, 2010 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
TALLAHASSEE — A push for struggling schools to lengthen the school day may become a part of a larger education reform debate that lawmakers have hinted will be a major part of the spring 2011 legislative agenda. Key lawmakers in the Senate and House have already said...
by kippadmin | Dec 30, 2010 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
Jacksonville, Florida – When compared to other countries, American children spend the least time in school – 180. Students in Japan spend the most number of days in school – 243. There’s a move in the U.S. to add 20 school days to the school...
by kippadmin | Oct 13, 2010 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
Jacksonville’s KIPP Impact Middle School will receive $500,000 from the federal government to support its music program, the school’s national foundation announced Wednesday during a visit by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan participated in a...
by kippadmin | Oct 7, 2010 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is scheduled to be in Jacksonville Wednesday for the grand opening of Florida’s first KIPP charter school. Duncan will cut the ribbon at the KIPP Impact Middle School about 10:50 a.m., said Tom Majdanics, executive director for...
by kippadmin | Sep 27, 2010 | Media Coverage, Uncategorized
On Monday, President Barack Obama spoke about goals in education reform and said he’d like to see a month added to the public school calendar. Obama’s call for a longer school year is generating a lot of discussion. Fifth-grader Jacolby Youngblood said he...
