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Article: Norfolk gets top prize.(Broad Prize for Urban Education awarded Norfolk Public Schools for outstanding urban school districts )(Brief Article)
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- District Administration
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- November 1, 2005
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Strong leadership and solid partnership with the school board, unions and community led Norfolk (Va.) Public Schools to recently win the 2005 Broad Prize for Urban Education. It's the largest education prize in the U.S. awarded annually to the most outstanding urban school districts since 2002.
The $1 million prize honors the country's urban school districts making the greatest improvements in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among minority and low-income students. Norfolk, which won $500,000 and has been a finalist twice before, was up ...