Hawthorne and Foster elementary schools were among thousands of schools recognized nationwide for being high-performance, high-poverty schools by The Education trust.
A report issued by the Education Trust indicated that thousands of high-poverty, high-minority schools across the nation were among the top-performing schools.
The report, Dispelling the Myth Revisited, found that in 2000 more than 4,500 high-poverty and high-minority schools were among the top one-third of all schools in their respective states, often outperforming white…