Awards and Accomplishments

• The RITE Program was featured as one of three model programs by the Governor’s Reading Institute video entitled, "Thriving on Excellence". (2002)
  
  
• RITE received the "Pride of SRA" award by SRA/McGraw-Hill at the annual conference of the International Reading Association in San Francisco, California. (May 2002)
  
  
• Houston Independent School District was awarded the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education after a panel visited the only elementary school, Codwell Elementary, a RITE school (October 2002)
  
  
• Two RITE HISD schools, Robert Lee Frost Elementary and James A. Montgomery Elementary, were recognized along with 214 public and private elementary and secondary schools as No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools by U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige (September 2003)
  
  
• Two participating RITE schools, Codwell Elementary and James A Montgomery Elementary, received recognition by the National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA) as a "Just for the Kids High-Performing School" where students demonstrated sustained high academic performance in 2001, 2002, and 2003. (February 2004)