Florida Senate - 2013                             (NP)    SR 858
       
       
       
       By Senator Bullard
       
       
       
       
       39-01173-13                                            2013858__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution congratulating Miami-Dade County Public
    3         Schools on being named the winner of the 2012 Broad
    4         Prize for Urban Education and recognizing the school
    5         system and its administrators, teachers, staff,
    6         students, and parents for their commitment to the
    7         singular goal of improving student achievement in an
    8         environment characterized by openness, transparency,
    9         efficiency, and innovation.
   10  
   11         WHEREAS, the Broad Prize for Urban Education is an annual
   12  award that honors urban school districts across the nation that
   13  are making the greatest progress in raising student achievement,
   14  and
   15         WHEREAS, the Broad Prize honors urban school districts that
   16  demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in
   17  student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among ethnic
   18  groups and between high- and low-income students, and
   19         WHEREAS, students in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools
   20  outperformed students in a number of the most highly thought of
   21  public schools in major metropolitan areas in the National
   22  Assessment of Educational Progress Trial Urban District
   23  Assessment in science, mathematics, and reading, and
   24         WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County Public Schools was a finalist
   25  for the Broad Prize in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011, and, in 2012
   26  claimed this prestigious honor, and
   27         WHEREAS, as the winner of the Broad Prize, Miami-Dade
   28  County Public Schools will receive $550,000 in college
   29  scholarships for graduating seniors, and
   30         WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ recognition by
   31  the body that awards the Broad Prize is a testament to its
   32  concentrated approach in reading instruction, including summer
   33  reading camps; reading interventions in elementary, middle, and
   34  senior high school, as well as an emphasis on reading across
   35  disciplines; a focus on guiding middle school students to
   36  advanced-level classes, which increases the pipeline to Advanced
   37  Placement courses in high school; and extended learning
   38  opportunities through the Links to Learning program and the
   39  Superintendent’s Success Academy, NOW, THEREFORE,
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   41  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   43         That we recognize the outstanding achievement of the Miami
   44  Dade County Public Schools and its administrators, teachers,
   45  staff, students, and parents for their exemplary achievement in
   46  winning the Broad Prize for Urban Education, which shines a
   47  national spotlight on the system’s sound advances in student
   48  achievement.