LPSS Teachers Get Salary Raise, Starting at $50K

LPSS teachers get salary raise, starting at $50K

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- The Lafayette Parish School Board has reached a decision to increase pay for all teachers within the parish. With the item approved, teachers would receive a starting salary of $50,000, which is $2,000 more than any other starting pay in the district. These salary increases are from savings in LPSS' budget from the district office optimization and consolidation and staffing adjustments. This comes after feedback was receiv…

Lafayette Parish School Board approves Performing Arts Academy move, new teacher pay increase

LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — The Lafayette Parish School Board met on Thursday, May 15, to discuss important changes for teachers and students. The board approved moving the Performing Arts Academy from Comeaux High School to Lafayette High. The proposal…

CDMX.- In the framework of Teacher and Teacher Day, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced today the salary increase for the teachers' education from 9 percent reactive to 1 January, in front of teachers from the National Union of Education Workers (SNTE). "The approach is as follows, at this time, retroactive to 1 January. We will give 9% household increases, with an additional from September 1% more as recognition to teachers and teachers…

Are Lafayette teachers getting a raise? Depends on tonight's school board meeting

The Lafayette Parish School Board is set to discuss, and possibly vote on, a proposal to raise teacher salaries and implement an incentive stipend packagea move district leaders say will help attract and retain quality educators while reinforcing the parish's reputation as one of the top school systems in Louisiana.Superintendent Francis Touchet said the salary increase is part of a broader plan to make the district more competitive statewide.We…

LPSS approves teacher pay raise, votes to move arts academy

The plan starts first-time teachers at $50,000 and adds bonuses for teacher attendance, performance and working in underperforming schools.

Silva says that this offer "is assured in the budget of 2025, but in 2026 and 2027 we will need the commitment of those who now demand" to the measure other than "a toast to the sun"