The recipient entity's physical address:
           Teach For America: 25 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Teach For America – South Louisiana: 501 Government Street, Ste. 100, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Teach For America – Greater New Orleans: 865 Fulton Street, Ste. 400, New Orleans, LA 70130

The recipient entity's mailing address (if different):
           Teach For America: 25 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Teach For America – South Louisiana: 501 Government Street, Ste. 100, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Teach For America – Greater New Orleans: 865 Fulton Street, Ste. 400, 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:
          Meg Whitman (Chair)
Susan Mccaw (Treasurer)
Pamela L. Carter
Bill Haslam
Kaya Henderson
Kevin Huffman
David Kenny
Dr. Michael L. Lomax
Steve Mandel
Ken Mehlman
Nancy Peretsman
Dan Porterfield
Linnea Conrad Roberts
Lindy Schumacher
Miguel Solis
Olivia Walton
Eric S. Yuan

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

What is the dollar amount of the request?  $3,000,000

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 - South Louisiana
501 Government Street, Ste. 100, Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Ge’ron Tatum, Executive Director Teach For America - Greater New Orleans
865 Fulton Street, Ste. 400, 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:
Meg Whitman (Chair)
Susan Mccaw (Treasurer)
Pamela L. Carter
Bill Haslam
Kaya Henderson
Kevin Huffman
David Kenny
Dr. Michael L. Lomax
Steve Mandel
Ken Mehlman
Nancy Peretsman
Dan Porterfield
Linnea Conrad Roberts
Lindy Schumacher
Miguel Solis
Olivia Walton
Eric S. Yuan
Officers of the entity:
Elisa Villanueva-Beard, Chief Executive Officer
Susan Asiyanbi, Executive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer
Joshua Griggs, Executive Vice President, Talent, Operations and CFO
Steve Majors, Executive Vice President, Chief External Officer
Noemi Wierville, Executive Vice President, Chief Learning Officer
Jemina Bernard, Executive Vice President, Chief of Community Impact & Operations
Michelle Culver, Senior Vice President, Reinvention
Kira Orange Jones, Senior Vice President, System Impact
Tracy-Elizabeth Clay, Senior VIce President, General Counsel & Chief Risk/Compliance Officer, Secretary
Whitney Petersmeyer, Senior Vice President, Strategy
Nafeesha Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff to the CEO

Provide a summary of the project or program:
           At Teach For America, our first promise is to kids. We provide them the equitable and excellent education that they want and deserve. We are the premier source of new teachers for historically marginalized communities, as well as for education leaders who are working from all angles of the system to expand opportunity for students and reimagine the future of education. Since 1990, Teach For America has worked to bring new teachers to Louisiana and grow those teachers into education leaders, champions of their students’ academic and personal growth, and advocates for educational equity. Through their time in the classroom, TFA corps members develop a deep appreciation of their students' potential and an in-depth view of the systemic obstacles that hinder student success. Many barriers exist that prevent our state and country from achieving educational equity. Teach For America’s goal is to recruit high-quality teachers to classrooms, deliver coaching and professional development to help teachers lead their students toward academic and personal growth, and provide leadership opportunities to help educators advocate and create systemic change and expand opportunity for students.
Teach For America alumni pursue a myriad of career paths that positively impact students and low-income communities. Today, Teach For America is a national network of 64,000+ leaders whose experience in the classroom sparked a lifelong commitment to expanding opportunity for kids. Our alumni are well-positioned for impact because of their diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and the lessons learned from their years in the classroom. Teach For America’s Louisiana network includes 820 teachers, 110+ principals, assistant principals and school systems leaders, 2 school board members and 400+ who work across sectors toward profound, enduring change. Over the past 31 years, TFA has grown in its commitment to ensuring that students have access to great teachers with a variety of perspectives and experiences – including individuals with similar backgrounds as our students. Forty three percent of our teachers now identify as people of color, compared with 21% of all teachers nationwide; 48% received Pell grants in college, a reliable indicator of low-income background; 37% are the first in their families to attend college; and 31% come to the corps from graduate school or with professional experience.
Teach For America’s core program includes:
Recruiting college graduates, graduate students and professionals who have demonstrated great potential to become transformational teachers for underserved students.
Facilitating matches between corps members and the schools and subject areas where they can have their greatest impact.
Providing in-field teacher preparation through an intensive pre-service training to occur over the summer and into the first 90 days of teaching.
Providing training and leadership development through corps programming, specialized cohorts and individual coaching throughout the year.
Increasing the capacity of our alumni base through recruitment pipelines and programming that facilitates mentorship, community-building and career development.

What is the budget relative to the project for which funding is requested?:
          Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Professional Services. . . $3,000,000
          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?
          

What is the entity's public purpose, sought to be achieved through the use of state monies?
          Teach For America (TFA) recruits, selects, trains, and professionally develops outstanding and diverse leaders who have demonstrated evidence of the values and leadership necessary to expand opportunity and access for all children inside and outside the classroom. TFA supports our educators to advance the academic and personal growth of students and helps strengthen low-income schools and districts across Louisiana. Teach For America is the only national talent provider in the education sector that has unique capacity to complete the following components: capacity to recruit, train and support diverse educators annually to teach in low-income schools; a required commitment to teach in the placement location for at least two years; a proven track record of providing teachers who exceed expected impact in their classrooms and meet or exceed the expectations of school leaders; and the ability to cultivate excellent leaders in education.

For the past thirty years, Teach For America has excelled at attracting truly exceptional people into education and galvanizing them for a lifetime of impact. Our focus on this remains steady as we rally a new generation to respond to the acute crisis at hand. Teach For America has been, and remains one of the most diverse sources of new teachers across the country, with over 43% of corps members identifying as a person of color. Through research, we know educators who come from diverse backgrounds and reflect the identities of their students positively impact students, especially students of color. For example, Black students who have even one Black teacher by third grade are 13% more likely to enroll in college, according to research from Johns Hopkins University and American University. Yet, across the country, teachers of color makeup just 21% of the total teaching workforce. Teach For America has built a model both locally and nationally to address these barriers in order to enable individuals of color to come into the classroom and remain -- becoming life-long leaders in education.
Last year, we placed first- and second-year teachers working in high-need elementary, middle, and high schools in Ascension, Orleans, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson Parish, Pointe Coupee, and St. Bernard Parishes. We prioritize partnerships with schools where at least 80% of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. In 2021, 91% of principals reported satisfaction with the performance of our corps members at their school, and 83% agreed that they would recommend to their fellow principals that they hire our corps members, and 98% agreed TFA educators were effective at delivering instruction.
Teach For America’s ongoing program in Louisiana is entirely contingent upon our ability to raise funds to support our operations. Given the unique combination of values, services, and results that Teach For America provides in Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Education may request up to $3,000,000 in public funding for Teach For America.
Last year, we leveraged our appropriation of $300,000 in state funds by a magnitude of more than 18 to 1 by raising over $5 million in funds for our operations in Louisiana. The ratio of private funding to all forms of public funding (including funding from state, the federal government, school districts, and charter management organizations) was approximately three to one. Private funds for TFA are disproportionately tied to our urban placements specifically in New Orleans, and so we depend upon public funds in order to be able to place in high-needs districts across Louisiana. An increase in state funding allows us to continue this work and attract sustained private donations in the years to come.

What are the goals and objectives for achieving such purpose?
          Teach For America will recruit and place a corps of educators in high-need public schools serving low-income populations in Southern Louisiana.

Teach For America will continue recruiting a diverse pipeline of teachers to Louisiana whereby at least 50 percent of new corps members are people of color, from a low-income background and/or the first in their family to attend college.

Teach For America corps members (educators) will continue to commit to teach for at least two years in their placement school.

Teach For America will provide teachers who on aggregate achieve higher than average student achievement results in their classrooms by providing training, resources, connections and opportunities for development.

What is the proposed length of time estimated by the entity to accomplish the purpose?
           Twelve months: June 2022 through May 2023

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:
                 Kira Orange-Jones
Teach For America
Senior Vice President, Regional Field Executive
865 Fulton Street, Ste. 400
New Orleans, LA 70130
Kira is an elected member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and has cleared her continued role with Teach For America through the Louisiana Board of Ethics, and abstains from Teach For America votes.
    
     (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:
                

     (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: 
               

(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:
              

          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:
                 Louisiana Department of Education, 1203 N. 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802

(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 receives funding by contract through the Louisiana state budget from the Louisiana Department of Education. The LDOE via State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley is the primary requester, but historically our grant has been managed through the Division of Teaching and Learning (within LDOE) under the leadership of Dr. Jenna Chiasson.

Teach For America will recruit, place, train and support a corps of nearly 150 diverse first and second year educators in high-need public schools serving low-income populations in Southern Louisiana.


Contact Information
name:  Marie Mullen 
                                       address:  501 Government Street, Ste. 100, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
                                       phone:  225.381.8163
                                       fax: 
                                       e-mail:  marie.mullen@teachforamerica.org
                                       relationship to entity:  employee