ERIKA DONALDS-Making Schools Great, K-12 School Choice

9200 Corkscrew Palms Boulevard,Estero FL 33928

11 November, 2021

Description

Erika Donalds is a mom with a mission to build quality schools, and she uses her financial expertise to do it. Find out how. Erika Donalds, the Founder, President, and CEO of The Optima Foundation is a finance professional with a passion for education. Erika Donalds utilizes her expertise in business, regulatory compliance, and finance to help further the expansion of high-quality school choice options and to improve accountability and governance in Florida’s public schools. The Optima Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation founded to support the establishment and expansion of “superior quality schools of choice”** with a mission to provide the maximum time and resources to the trusted academic professionals who are doing the most important work in education–directly meeting the needs of students. Optima’s goal is the successful launch of Hillsdale College Barney Charter School Initiative classical academies and other schools of excellence across the state of Florida. These classical schools serve kindergarten through twelfth grade, with the mission to train the minds and improve the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.