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South Texas school district gets $1 million prize (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:22 PM CDT

In this photo provided by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Broad Foundation founder Eli Broad, right, congratulates Hector Gonzales, superintendent of Brownsville Independent School District, on the Texas-Mexico border, after Brownsville won the Broad Prize for Urban Education, the country's largest education prize, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, in New York. The $2 million Broad Prize is awarded each year to the five most improved urban school districts. Brownsville will receive $1 million in college scholarships for graduating seniors and the four finalists, Aldine, Texas; Broward County, Fla.; Long Beach, Calif.; and Miami-Dade County, Fla., will each receive $250,000. (AP Photo/The Broad Foundation, Diane Bondareff)AP - One of the nation's poorest urban school districts won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for guiding its nearly 50,000 students toward academic achievement.


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