The recipient entity's physical address:
           Teach For America: 25 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004

The recipient entity's mailing address (if different):
           Teach For America: 25 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004

Teach For America – Greater Baton Rouge: 725 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Teach For America – Greater New Orleans: 865 Fulton Street, Ste. 420, New Orleans, LA 70130

Type of Entity (for instance, a nonprofit corporation):  Non-Profit Corporation

If the entity is a corporation, list the names of the incorporators:
          Not Applicable

The last four digits of the entity's taxpayer ID number:  1913

What is the dollar amount of the request?  $2,000,000

What type of request is this?  General Appropriation

Is this entity in good standing with the Secretary of State?  Yes

Provide the name of each member of the recipient entity's governing board and officers:
           Current Louisiana Executive Directors:
Laura Vinsant, Executive Director Teach For America Greater Baton Rouge
725 Main St., Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Ge’ron Tatum, Executive Director Teach For America Greater New Orleans
865 Fulton Street, Ste. 420, New Orleans, LA 70130

Board of Directors, CEO and Officers can be contacted at:
Teach For America, Inc.
25 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004

Governing Board:
Joe Amato - President & Chief Investment Officer of Equities, Neuberger
Christine Burton - Co-Founder & Chair, Burton Family Foundation
Dan Carroll - Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer, Clever
Hannah Cocca - Co-Founder/Board Member, Interdisciplinary Designer, Nugget
Doug Ducey - 23rd Governor of Arizona
Chanelle Hardy - Head of Civil Rights, Google
Stephen F. Mandel, Jr. - Founder & Managing Director, Lone Pine Capital LLC
DeRay Mckesson - Executive Director, Campaign Zero
Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D. (Board Chair) - CEO, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Lindy Schumacher - CEO, Fulfillment Fund Las Vegas
Miguel Solis – President, The Commit Partnership
John White – CEO, Great Minds

TFA Executive Team:
Aneesh Sohoni - Chief Executive Officer
Steve Majors - Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer
Alan Murray - Executive Vice President, Chief Data & Technology Officer
Joy Okoro - Executive Vice President, Chief Impact & Operating Officer
Whitney Petersmeyer - Executive Vice President, Growth & Program Officer
Michelle Gieg - Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff
Ashanta Evans Blackwell - Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Dr. Barbara Logan Smith - Senior Vice President, Chief of Experience & Belonging

Provide a summary of the project or program:
           Teach For America’s (TFA) first commitment is to students, ensuring they receive an excellent education they need to succeed. We are a leading source of education leaders, serving as high-dosage tutors, teachers, school administrators, and more, working across the system to expand opportunities for students. Since 1990, TFA recruits talented leaders into Louisiana and retains graduates in our state of Louisiana. These leaders then continue developing their leadership as teachers (called “corps members”) in Louisiana, supporting them to become strong educators and champions of student success.

Through their time in the classroom, TFA corps members make an initial two-year commitment to teach, leading their students toward academic growth while gaining firsthand experience and developing a deep understanding of the challenges that impact student success.

Today, TFA is a national network of over 72,000 leaders whose experience in the classroom fuels a lifelong commitment to expanding educational excellence. In Louisiana, our network includes 390 teachers and over 160 school system leaders, principals, and support staff. Among the 1,300 TFA alums in Louisiana, 65% work in the education sector, 18% in professional services, and 8% in healthcare. Over the past 36 years, TFA has remained committed to ensuring that students have access to exceptional teachers.

TFA’s core program focuses on several key strategies. TFA actively recruits college graduates, graduate students, and professionals who have demonstrated strong potential to become transformational teachers. Once selected, corps members are matched with schools where they can have the greatest impact. They undergo rigorous teacher preparation through intensive pre-service training that begins in May and continues through the first days of school.

Pre-service training lays a foundation for teaching by focusing on building community, content, and pedagogical knowledge, equipping corps members to lead rigorous and supportive classrooms. Pre-service culminates in a Practicum, where new teachers work with students, receive coaching on their planning and delivery, participate in practice lessons, and prepare to lead their own classrooms.

During the school year, TFA provides instructional and leadership coaching centered on observation and feedback, grounded in research-backed education practices. Coaching utilizes the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), a multidimensional observational instrument that focuses on teacher and student interactions to assess classroom quality in instructional support, classroom organization, and student support. Using CLASS and student achievement data, TFA instructional coaches provide year-round professional development that strengthens teachers’ pedagogy, instruction, and classroom management. Support includes classroom observations, data analysis, leadership coaching, and targeted training tailored to trends, needs, and grade-level exemplars.

Beyond the classroom, TFA continues to expand the Ignite high-dosage tutoring model, providing targeted support to help K-4th-grade students in Louisiana develop critical reading skills. Ignite has supported over 2,010 students since fall 2021. Ignite high-dosage tutoring has been a strong tool to recruit more leaders to apply to be corps members. College students who tutored with Ignite were nearly three times more likely to apply to TFA’s teaching corps, and Ignite raised applications by 14 percentage points for students outside education fields (Jung et al. 2025). Additionally, TFA strengthens its alumni network by fostering mentorship and fellowship opportunities, community-building initiatives, and career development programs. Through these efforts, TFA remains dedicated to ensuring students have access to educators, support, and resources to thrive.

What is the budget relative to the project for which funding is requested?:
          Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,500,000
          Professional Services. . . $500,000
          Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Acquisitions . . . . . . . . . $0
          Major Repairs . . . . . . . $0
          Operating Services. . . . $0
          Other Charges. . . . . . . $0

Does your organization have any outstanding audit issues or findings?  No

If 'Yes' is your organization working with the appropriate governmental agencies to resolve those issues or findings?
          Not Applicable

What is the entity's public purpose, sought to be achieved through the use of state monies?
          TFA recruits, selects, trains, and professionally develops outstanding leaders who have demonstrated the values and leadership necessary to expand opportunities for students inside and outside the classroom. Our organization is the only national talent provider in the education sector uniquely positioned to accomplish key objectives: the ability to annually recruit, train, and support educators (called “corps members”) to teach in schools across Louisiana; a required commitment for corps members to teach for at least two years; a proven track record of teachers who exceed expected impact in their classrooms and meet or exceed school leaders’ expectations; and the ability to develop outstanding leaders dedicated to improving education for future generations.

Since 1990, TFA has recruited over 72,000 exceptional leaders to serve in the education sector and equipped them for a lifetime of impact. Today, nearly 60% continue to work in education beyond the corps, including more than 14,000 teachers, 1,400 principals, and 1,200 school system leaders. Over the last five years, the number of alumni serving as school systems leaders has increased by more than 50%. A 2026 independent study by Bellwether examining TFA alumni contributions in three of the fastest improving urban school districts—Camden, Denver, and New York City—found that TFA alumni helped shape, advance, and sustain policy change that contributed to improved student outcomes at scale, while bringing a consistent set of skills, capabilities, mindsets, beliefs and leadership practices rooted in the classroom.

In Louisiana, we currently place first- and second-year teachers in K-12 public schools in Ascension (specifically Donaldsonville), Orleans, West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Pointe Coupee, and St. Bernard Parishes. We prioritize partnerships with schools where at least 80% of students qualify for free and/or reduced-price lunch programs. TFA corps members play a vital role in filling STEM teaching positions, with 49% currently teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. In the 2026 principal survey conducted in partnership with Westat, 95% of principals in Louisiana partner schools reported satisfaction with the performance of our corps members at their schools.

TFA’s continued work in Louisiana depends on raising funds to support its operations. Given the unique combination of values, services, and results that TFA provides, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) or appropriations may request up to $2,000,000 in public funding for Teach For America.

In 2025-2026, TFA in Louisiana raised over $6m in private funds for programs and operations; TFA has a track record of raising 80-85% of our budget through private funding. Private funds are primarily tied to urban placements, while public funding allows TFA to expand into districts across Louisiana, including rural areas. With public funding, last year we leveraged an appropriation of $500,000 by a magnitude of more than eight private dollars to one appropriation dollar, raising $6 million in funds for our operations in Louisiana. The ratio of privately raised dollars to publicly raised dollars (including funding from the state, the federal government, school districts, and charter management organizations) was approximately four to one.

This increase in state funding would also translate into a higher return on investment as TFA attracts and retains talent in Louisiana. Riverbend Research in 2025 found that TFA alumni and current corps members in Louisiana generated income and revenue for Louisiana, with $75M being new income to the state, while also saving the state money and resources. TFA teachers in Louisiana add substantial tax revenue and disposable income, while addressing high-need teaching vacancies that enhance academic outcomes and college readiness and, in turn, driving the economic mobility of Louisiana's students.

What are the goals and objectives for achieving such purpose?
          Our education system is at a pivotal moment. While challenges in teacher recruitment and retention persist, there is an incredible opportunity to strengthen and reimagine the future of education. Louisiana is continuing to improve the rates of student performance from year to year. Teach For America is proud to be part of this change through our talent recruitment, development and retention in order to build a stronger education system that ensures every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

To accomplish this, we utilize several key strategies. We will continue to recruit and place a strong corps of educators in schools across the state. We will track student achievement metrics for TFA corps members and alumni teachers through an anonymous data-sharing agreement with the Louisiana Department of Education. We will provide Louisiana classrooms with teachers who, on average, drive higher student achievement due to the training and resources they receive through TFA. Additionally, we will expand our support beyond TFA educators to strengthen the broader teaching ecosystem and continue growing Ignite, a high-dosage tutoring model designed to improve reading growth for kindergarten through fourth-grade students.

Our programs have already demonstrated powerful results. For example, the TFA Coaching Fellowship strengthens teacher effectiveness and retention for both TFA alumni and non-alumni educators. This fellowship develops leaders who mentor novice educators, equipping them with tools, professional development, and ongoing support. In a recent survey, 95% of novice teachers reported receiving high-quality coaching that positively impacted student outcomes in their classrooms, and 88% said their mentor teachers motivated them to stay at their school. Additionally, in the 2025-26 school year, 80% of last year’s fellows said the program helped them create career opportunities, such as receiving offers for leadership roles or expanding their current roles.

Another key initiative is the Ignite Fellowship, a national high-dosage tutoring program that enables college students to provide customized, small-group instruction to younger learners. This program directly contributes to our goals to accelerate reading proficiency and increase student engagement. Since its launch in 2021, Ignite high-dosage tutoring has demonstrated proven success. In Louisiana, 99% of principals reported positive impact on students’ academic growth, and 100% reported improved overall engagement in school. For the 2026-2027 school year, Ignite high dosage tutoring will have more than 300 tutors supporting students in East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Orleans, and Pointe Coupee Parishes, with plans to continue growing in the years ahead. By focusing on these strategies, Teach For America remains dedicated to ensuring that every student has access to excellent educators, the resources they need to succeed, and the support necessary to thrive.

What is the proposed length of time estimated by the entity to accomplish the purpose?
           June 2027 through May 2028

If any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official is an officer, director, trustee, or employee of the recipient entity who receives compensation or holds any ownership interest therein:
     (a) If an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of the official and the office held by such person:
                 There are no known TFA staff members who serve in elected state-wide office.
    
     (b) If an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of such person; the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related; and the nature of the relationship:
                 Not Applicable

     (c) The percentage of the official's or immediate family member's ownership interest in the recipient entity, if any:
                

     (d) The position, if any, held by the official or immediate family member in the recipient entity:
                 

If the recipient entity has a contract with any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official or with the state or any political subdivision of the state:
(a) If the contract is with an elected or appointed state official, provide the name and address of the official and the office held by such person: 
               Not Applicable

(b) If the contract is with an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official:
          Provide the name and address of such person:
               There are three staff members of whom we are aware that have an immediate family member who works for a subdivision of Louisiana including, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (this person is the sibling of a TFA staff member), Louisiana Economic Development (this person is the spouse of a TFA staff member), and Louisiana Works (this person is the spouse of a TFA Staff member).

          Provide the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related:
               

          What is the nature of the relationship? 

(c) If the contract is with the state or a political subdivision of the state, provide the name and address of the state entity or political subdivision of the state:
                 Teach For America has previously received funding through a contract under the Louisiana state budget from the Louisiana Department of Education and the Louisiana Department of Administration. The Louisiana Department of Education managed the grant through the Division of Teaching and Learning. In the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 school years, Louisiana state budget funds via appropriation are being administered to TFA via the Louisiana Department of Administration.

(d) The nature of the contract, including a description of the goods or services provided or to be provided pursuant to the contract:
               Teach For America will recruit, place, train, and support a corps of first- and second-year educators in 43 schools serving over 5,000 low-income students in Louisiana. Teach For America will also place Ignite high-dosage tutoring fellows in over 12 schools that run the high-dosage tutoring program for over 750 students in Louisiana. Teach For America will provide professional development to educators in support of their growth in the classroom and cultivate a pipeline of school and school system leaders serving in 32 parishes in the state.


Contact Information
name:  Marie Mullen 
                                       address:  725 Main Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
                                       phone:  2253818163
                                       fax: 
                                       e-mail:  marie.mullen@teachforamerica.org
                                       relationship to entity:  Employee