Superintendent Paul Pastorek’s vision is to create a world-class education system for all students in Louisiana and this can only be done by having ALL students reading, writing and doing mathematics at or above grade level by the fourth grade. The Ensuring Literacy and Numeracy for All Initiative is designed to accomplish this vision. For our students to compete successfully in the world of tomorrow, our number one priority must be to develop our early learners into readers, writers, and mathematicians.

Through the Ensuring Literacy and Numeracy for All Initiative, Louisiana’s resources focus first on our youngest learners (PreK-4th grade). The initiative:

Louisiana's data has shown that there is also a great need for developing reading skills at the middle and early high school level. The initiative has begun development of a framework for Adolescent Literacy. The focus will be on the Comprehensive Curriculum, the GLEs, professional development, and a three-tiered intervention model.