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In a reminder that it's pure fallacy when teachers and pols claim that tough, urban schools filled with poor kids cannot produce high grades and academic achievement, the tough, urban Long Beach Unified School District was today named one of four finalists for "most improved" urban schools in the nation by the Broad Foundation.
The overall Broad Prize winner, beating Long Beach, was a downtrodden school district filled with even poorer kids, the Brownsville Independent School District on the Texas border with Mexico. That little district got a $2 million check today from former U.S. Secretaries of Education Rod Paige and Richard Riley and the actual money-man, LA billionaire Eli Broad, in a big to-do at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Where was Los Angeles Unified School District in this competition? Nowhere. LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer has made no academic mark since the Weekly's Patrick McDonald explained, ten long months ago, how overwhelmed Brewer is by a job that former Superintendent Roy Romer handled with aplomb.
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According to the Daily News, LA Unified Superintendent David Brewer gave one of his rousing speeches at the Los Angeles Convention Center yesterday, as he welcomed administrators back to school. The event didn't get too much press coverage, unfortunately, and maybe that's why the former Navy admiral gets away with saying certain stuff.
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