re: Teachers’ unions threaten strike as superintendent finalists answer questions

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What are we talking about here? I work in a school district that has over a 1 billion dollar budget, and around 90% of that goes to pay teachers' salaries. I am genuinely curious about where you are getting your stats from.


The average pay for a teacher in Louisiana is $55,000. Look it up. That is 2024 numbers.

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that's such a manufactured number ??

Hell in Ascension you need 10 years and a master's degree to hit that number or 11 without. Parishes manipulate those numbers to promote how much they pay. Many central office staff who don't step foot in a classroom are labeled teachers and make more than the average classroom teacher which skews the numbers. In Livingston a teacher would have to work 17 years without a master's to hit 55k or 14 with a master's.