…Brownsville, Texas. The other finalists were Aldine Independent School District, Texas; Broward County Public Schools, Florida.; Long Beach Unified School District, California; and Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
The New York Times notes Brownsville’s honor comes on the same day that Texas authorities announced that the district had failed to meet achievement targets for two years under NCLB.
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I was interested to learn this and had not read it anywhere else yet. Thanks for the info.
Is it really a year since they gave the last Broad Prize? Or do they give them more often?