Mission & Strategy

The Boston Plan for Excellence asks one question over and over: What will it take to create a system of schools that works for every child?

As a local education fund and nonprofit, the Boston Plan works from the “outside in,” acting as both an ally and critical friend to the Boston Public Schools — seeking and supporting innovative solutions to the toughest problems faced by Boston’s students, their teachers, and the school district as a whole.

The BPE Mission: To be a catalyst and support to the Boston Public Schools in transforming instruction to improve the performance of every student.

With the support of private grants, the Boston Plan plays two main roles: With teachers and administrators, it tests new ideas to improve classrooms and schools that hold promise for accelerating student learning, and it works with the district to look at its own policies and practices that slow reform.

Over more than two decades, the Boston Plan has contributed to major improvements in Boston’s schools, improvements that have affected the lives of countless children and families. The work continues. The Boston Plan will not satisfied until every student in Boston is reaching his or her academic and life potential.

Every school. Every classroom. Every student.