THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST

Our third strategic priority is to build an education ecosystem that supports improvement, innovation, and equity. This program's objectives are to 1) mitigate high attrition rates and declining supply of teachers from regional teacher preparation programs, 2) develop more robust school and board leadership succession planning and pipelines, 3) launch new education-focused communications platform, 4) become destination for high quality education data through internal research and through partnerships, and 5) shift state policy advocacy to strategic partners.

Strategic priorities 5 the expanding opportunities: missouri charter school program: a u.s. Department of education approved budget of $35.5 million to help missouri expand opportunities for students to attend quality charter public schools. Missouri's csp program has three objectives: 1) increase the number of quality missouri charter public school seats, especially for our most educationally disadvantaged students, 2) support quality charter school authorizing in missouri, through the dissemination and support of best authorizer practices statewide, and 3) codify and share lessons from high-performing charter public schools across the education ecosystem.