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Regents, Department of Education report gains in Louisiana teacher workforce; task force outlines multiple pipeline programs
Summary
Commissioner Kim Hunter Reid told the House Education Committee on Feb. 12 that the statewide Teacher Recruitment, Recovery and Retention Task Force reported gains in the teacher workforce and called out pipeline programs from high‑school pre‑educator pathways to para‑to‑teacher training.
Commissioner Kim Hunter Reid and state education officials told the House Education Committee on Feb. 12 that statewide efforts to recruit and retain teachers are showing measurable gains, but members urged continued attention to compensation, job conditions and specialized shortages.
"We have an increase of over 843 teachers in our state," Commissioner Kim Hunter Reid said as she summarized the task force’s 2024 report. The report and a printed handout with a QR code were provided to committee members in advance.
The task force — convened by the Board of Regents and co‑chaired by Barry Irwin of Leaders for a Better Louisiana — produced a package of strategies the panel said are intended to expand and diversify the teacher pipeline. Reid told lawmakers the state now has 52,208 certified teachers on record in 2024 and that new programs aim to ‘‘grow our own’’ teachers.
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