The Opportunity Trust

Our second strategic priority is focused on increasing access to world-class schools by growing the capacity of our most successful schools, launching new and innovative schools, strengthening existing schools with conditions for sustained success, and helping districts to methodically transform their lowest performing schools. This prograim aims to 1) drive toward goal of 25% students in quality seats by expanding investments in new schools, expanding investments from three schools in fy21 to thirteen schools in fy24 and maintaining investments in high performing charters, 2) catalyze support for district autonomous models through community design and post-secondary intermediary initiative, and 3) explore partnerships with seven county districts representing 27k students enrolled in low-quality schools.

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.