Through the Office of Opportunity Gaps (OOG), the 10 Boys Initiative seeks to employ African-centered practices, leveraging community partnerships, researching and implementing best instructional strategies, and paving the way for OOG to be the change that will affect Boston Public School district for years to come. 10 Boys is a specialty class designed to impact a heterogeneous group of Black and Latino males and hopes to eliminate some of the current data that says that Black & Latino males hold the highest suspension rates, occupy the most police arrests, and perform the worst in regards to literacy on state standards assessments.