Building Excellent Schools is a national organization with more than a decade of experience training leaders to found independently managed urban charter schools. BES Fellows have founded more than 40 schools is 20 cities across the country. The BES Fellowship is the flagship program at Building Excellent Schools. Many schools founded by BES Fellows have received national recognition for outstanding student achievement. Building Excellent Schools believes that all students are college bound – every one. We believe that dramatic student achievement in urban public schools is possible within a highly structured, no-excuses, results-oriented school culture in which leadership drives, communicates, and supports instructional expectations in every class every day.