About BPE

icon_headerBoston Plan Board of Trustees

The Boston Plan for Excellence is guided by a volunteer board of trustees who represent Boston’s corporate, higher education, foundation, and civic communities.

 

Charles K. Gifford (chair), Chairman Emeritus, Bank of America

Maura Banta, Manager, Corporate Community Relations, IBM Corporation

Thomas Birmingham, Senior Counsel, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

Elizabeth Chen, Former President, The New England College of Optometry

Carol Johnson (ex officio), Superintendent, Boston Public Schools

Richard Elmore, Gregory R. Anrig Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

John Fish, President, Suffolk Construction Company

Robert Gallery, President, Bank of America Massachusetts

Gregory Groover, Pastor, Charles Street A.M.E. Church

Willis Hulings III, President & CEO, The Education Resources Institute

Pendred Noyce, Trustee, The Noyce Foundation

Kathryn Plazak, President, Plazak Associates

Jacqueline Rivers, Community Activist

Our Core Partner
The Boston Teacher Residency is a joint initiative of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) and is housed at BPE.

The Boston Plan for Excellence is working to make sure every child in Boston receives an excellent education. As a local education fund and nonprofit, we seek and support innovative solutions to the toughest problems faced by Boston’s students, their teachers, and the school system as a whole.

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