Poor Calif. district wins top honors.A poor California district with many immigrant children won kudos for improving student achievement and helping to close the achievement gap. The Broad Foundation, founded by billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad Eli Broad (born June 6, 1933) a native of Detroit, Michigan is a Jewish American billionaire who lives in Los Angeles, California. His last name is pronounced as rhyming with road. Broad is well known for his philanthropy and extensive art collection. , awarded the $500,000 top prize to Garden Grove Unified School District The Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD) is the third largest district in Orange County, and the twelfth largest in the State of California. GGUSD's enrollment boundaries allow the district to serve students in many central and northern Orange County communities, including: to recognize the most accomplished of the nation's impoverished im·pov·er·ished adj. 1. Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken. See Synonyms at poor. 2. Deprived of natural richness or strength; limited or depleted: urban school districts. The money will fund college scholarships for Garden Grove Garden Grove, city (1990 pop. 143,050), Orange co., S Calif., a suburb of Long Beach and Los Angeles, on the Santa Ana River; founded 1877, inc. 1956. Many of its residents work in nearby aerospace and defense installations, and there is light manufacturing. seniors. Garden Grove accomplished its progress in part by fostering support for teachers and principals and with teachers using lesson plans in class based on data from student testing and state-mandated academic standards. "Garden Grove is an example of standards-based education at its best, and the district's frequent testing, assessment and intervention has paid off. In the past three years, students have improved in reading and math at every school level," said Eli Broad, founder of The Broad Foundation. Additionally, this year 94 percent of Garden Grove's schools met their adequate yearly progress Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. targets under No Child Left Behind. Garden Grove U.S.D. has been a finalist each year since the Broad Prize began in 2002. www.ggusd.k12.ca.us, www.broadfoundation.org |
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