N.Y.C. Wins Prestigious Urban Education Award

The third time proved the charm for the New York City public school system, which won the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education for the progress of its reform efforts, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced here today.

The nation’s largest school district, with nearly 1.1 million students, had been a finalist for the award the past two years.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings praised officials of New York City and the four other districts that were selected as finalists for being “fellow warriors in raising student achievement.” New York and the runners-up—the Bridgeport public schools in Connecticut, the Long Beach Unified district in California, the Miami-Dade County schools in Florida, and the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio—were selected from among 100 school systems nationwide that were evaluated...