Montgomery loses out on $1 million schools prize

Montgomery County Public Schools received $250,000 from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation for its efforts in closing the system’s “achievement gap,” losing out on the $1 million prize to Georgia’s Gwinnett County.

The Broad Prize in Urban Education honored five districts for progress toward closing the achievement gap between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian peers. Each finalist received $250,000.