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 KIPP Jacksonville Schools. The school opened in August with 90 fifth-graders. “It’s really exciting and humbling that we have secretary Duncan coming to see us as we begin our work,” said Robert Hawke, the school’s principal. “For our kids to see that somebody on the level of the secretary of education cares so much about their success in life is an amazing motivator.”
