America's Best Urban Schools
•
Broad Prize for Urban Education - Top National Winner
of a half million dollars
• Education Trust's Dispelling the
Myth Award for achievement and improvement
• Education Trust West's All Kids,
All Stars Award for serving diverse populations
• Highest-rated Head Start program
in U.S.
• Largest number of 2004 California
Distinguished Schools - 11 schools
• Newsweek's Best High Schools -
two schools
• National Blue Ribbon Schools -
five schools
• National Title I Achieving Schools
- 14 schools
• Grammy Award for music education
- one of top seven high schools in U.S.
• 59 Teachers nationally board certified
• Nation's best geology teacher
• Los Angeles County Teacher of
the Year
• Major League Baseball's Breaking
Barriers Essay Contest - National Winner
• Milken National Educator Award
• Alumnus earns Presidential Medal
of Freedom
• National publication features
high school special education
• Single-gender academies featured
on CNN
• Only district in state to earn
SPARC counseling award or commendation at all high schools
• 300 businesses support the first
local State of Education luncheon
• Business partnerships with schools
exceed 1,000
• First on West Coast to provide
the PSAT for all tenth graders
• New schools built on time, on
budget
• Busing reduced as new schools
open
• Balanced budget, no layoffs, no
class-size increases despite budget cuts
• Further reductions in class size
• Successful Board of Education
initiatives in reading, writing, math
• Best attendance, lowest suspension
rate in decades
• Ten years of school uniforms in
schools now serving 74,000 students
• Local high school leads state
in UC admissions
• State Golden Bell Award for community-based
English tutoring
• 99 percent of our schools meet
or exceed state academic growth targets
• Most Inspiring Students Honored
by legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden