Progress at City Schools Earns $500,000 Award
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New York City will accept $500,000 in scholarship funding after receiving the nation’s most prestigious prize awarded for improvement in urban education, the Broad Prize.
Secretary of Education Spellings made the announcement in Washington, D.C., yesterday on behalf of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Mayor Bloomberg, whose stated goal when he took control of the public schools in 2002 was to become New York City’s “education mayor,” accepted on behalf of the city.
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