Education Law

What can Brownsville do for you? (Version 2)

Well, it's the best of times for the Brownsville Independent School District in Texas. Just two weeks ago, BoardBuzz told you about their success and celebtrating their accomplishment as the winner of the 2008 CUBE Award for School Board Excellence. And earlier today, they were awarded another prestigious award, the Broad Prize for Urban Education.

The Broad award gives a million dollars in scholarship money to the winning district for graduating high school seniors. Brownsville, in its first year as a finalist, was up against Miami-Dade; Aldine, Texas; Long Beach, California; and Broward County, Florida. Eli Broad, founder of the award and the Broad foundation said, "Brownsville is the best kept secret in America."

BoardBuzz couldn't agree more! For more information about Brownsville, check out our earlier posting and the article in the Urban Advocate. There's so much we can learn from this distict, isn't it worth taking a look at what they've done?

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).