Ensuring everyone who calls St. Louis home is prepared to thrive
The world’s economy and job markets are changing, and St. Louis is not keeping up. Many of our schools are struggling to prepare children with the basic skills required. Existing approaches to solving regional problems are not yielding the results we need.
At The Opportunity Trust we are working to ensure that every child in St. Louis is prepared to lead a life of choice and dignity.
The Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) at Stanford University recently released new data in version 4.0 of their Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), a comprehensive national database of 10 years of academic performance data from 2008-2009 to 2017-2018 school years.
Despite facing increased challenges, St. Louis educators are innovating new approaches to instruction and intervention to better meet the needs of their students. We wanted to share examples of the intrepid...
One year of universal high-quality pre-K could practically eliminate the Black-White reading skills gap at kindergarten entry.
The Leadership School, the first public charter school in St. Louis County, is now enrolling K-2 grade students for the 2021-2022 school year.
Krystal Barnett launched Bridge 2 Hope in 2019 to unite parents and grandparents exasperated by the lack of quality school options to demand responsiveness from school system leaders. The young organization,...
In St. Louis, majority White school districts receive an average of $1,698 more in funding per student than majority Black school districts.
Explore Forward Through Ferguson's released a new community accountability and advocacy tool that examines these inequities and serves as a call to level the education playing field in St. Louis.
In February 2020, Senator Cindy O’Laughlin from District 18 covering 14 counties in the northeastern part of the state was named Chair of the Missouri Senate Education Committee. As a senator,...
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