Urban Education Prize Goes to Garden Grove, Calif.

California’s Garden Grove Unified School District won the Broad Prize for Urban Education last week, in recognition of its progress educating minority and low-income students.

The 50,000-student district, located southeast of Los Angeles in Orange County, was chosen from among five finalists for the nation’s richest education prize bestowed upon a single district. The Los Angeles-based Broad Foundation provides $500,000 to the winner, to be distributed...