Boston Plan for Excellence

Boston Plan for Excellence is a nonprofit focused on improving outcomes for Boston students by developing great teachers and great schools. One of its programs, Boston Teacher Residency, trains new teachers at the organization’s Teaching Academy and in other Boston Public Schools, then sends graduates to schools across the city. Those teachers have reached about 20,000 Boston students so far, and the residency operates as an AmeriCorps program.

The organization also founded the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School in the Dudley neighborhood, where many local schools are rated underperforming and about 72 percent of families send their children to schools elsewhere. The school gives families a strong option close to home. The organization works with neighborhood partners including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Project Hope and Roxbury Presbyterian Church, and with corporate and nonprofit partners that help students prepare for careers, increasingly in STEM fields.

What to Know

• Its motto is “Student success. Nothing less.”
• The organization describes its work as redesigning school for the 21st century.
• In Dudley, 54 percent of households earn less than $25,000 a year and only 16 percent of residents hold a college degree.