The Foundation has targeted the following districts for funding in 2006 and 2007. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a discussion of methodology.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Alaska
Anchorage
Arizona
Tucson
Arkansas
Little Rock
California
Corona-Norco
Fontana
Fresno
Garden Grove
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Montebello
Oakland
Pomona
Riverside
Sacramento
San
Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa
Ana
Stockton
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Delaware
Christina
Florida
Broward County
(Fort
Lauderdale)
Dade County
(Miami)
Duval
County
(Jacksonville)
Hillsborough County
(Tampa)
Orange
County
(Orlando)
Palm Beach County
Pinellas County
Georgia
Atlanta City
Clayton
County
Cobb County
Dekalb County
Gwinnett County
Idaho
Boise
Illinois
Chicago
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas
Wichita
Kentucky
Jefferson
County
(Louisville)
Louisiana
Caddo
Parish
(Shreveport)
East Baton Rouge
Jefferson
Parish
New Orleans
Maryland
Baltimore City
Baltimore
County
Montgomery County
Prince Georges County
Massachusetts
Boston
Michigan
Detroit
Minnesota
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Mississippi
Jackson
Missouri
Kansas City
St. Louis
Nebraska
Omaha
Nevada
Clark County
(Las Vegas)
New Hampshire
Manchester
New Jersey
Jersey City
Newark
New Mexico
Albuquerque
New York
Buffalo
New York City
North Carolina
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Guilford County
Wake
County
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Oregon
Portland
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Providence
South Carolina
Charleston
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Texas
Aldine
Alief
Arlington
Austin
Brownsville
Corpus
Christi
Dallas
El Paso
Fort
Worth
Garland
Houston
Northside
Pasadena
San
Antonio
Ysleta
Utah
Salt Lake City
Virginia
Fairfax
Norfolk
Washington
Seattle
Washington, D.C.
District of
Columbia
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
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Methodology Used to Determine 100 Districts
Eligible for Broad Foundation Funding in 2006 and 2007
Data on school district demographics was gathered from the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data (CCD) for 2004. That information was used to determine a pool of eligible school districts
meeting size, poverty and urbanicity criteria. Data missing from the CCD were acquired from state education agencies. In addition, the CCD data were checked against state agency data where available.
This process identified 100 eligible school districts
in 44 states and the District of Columbia. The states with no eligible districts are Hawaii, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Hawaii is ineligible because it doesn't have school districts, but rather just one state department of education.
Eligibility was determined by the following criteria:
- All K-12 districts serving more than 100,000 students. (25 districts)
- All K-12 districts serving between 35,000 and 99,999 students, with at
least 40 percent of students eligible for free and reduced-price school lunch (FRSL), at least 40 percent of their student enrollment from minority
groups and with an urban designation (Locale Code 1, 2 or 3 in the CCD data*). (60 districts)
- If a state has no districts meeting the above criteria, then the largest urban district (Local Code 1, 2 or 3) in the state with at least 15,000 students. (15 districts)
*Locale Code 1 (Large City) represents a city with a population of 250,000 or larger that is the central city in a Census Bureau Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) or Consolidated
Statistical Area (CSA); Code 2 (Mid-size City) is a city with fewer than 250,000 people that nonetheless is a central city in a CBSA or CSA; and Code 3 (Urban Fringe of a Large City) represents an area defined as urban by the Census Bureau
falling within the CBSA or CSA of a large city. For example, Los Angeles and Houston are Code 1 districts, Norfolk and Providence are Code 2 and Aldine and Garden Grove are Code 3.
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