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Livingston Parish School Board approves 2025–26 differentiated compensation plan; union urges cost-of-living increase instead
Summary
The Livingston Parish School Board approved its 2025–26 differentiated compensation distribution plan, keeping a teacher effectiveness stipend and creating leadership stipends. A representative of the Livingston Federation of Teachers urged that the funds instead be used for a districtwide cost-of-living adjustment.
The Livingston Parish School Board voted to approve its 2025–26 differentiated compensation distribution plan, keeping a teacher-effectiveness stipend and allocating additional funds for instructional and leadership coaches.
The plan approved by the board retains an effectiveness stipend of $300 for teachers rated highly effective and allocates stipends for coaches and teacher-leaders: $1,500 for instructional coaches not already receiving a stipend, $2,500 for district literacy and numeracy coaches and academic interventionists, and $1,000 per teacher providing school-level leadership, with school distributions scaled by each school’s number of teachers.
District staff summarized the plan and historic stipend amounts, saying the board paid annual teacher-effectiveness stipends from 2013 to 2023 at tiers of $100, $200 and $300…
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