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Elizabeth Bleier

Elizabeth Bleier

Elizabeth Bleier serves as the executive director of Teach For America St. Louis where she works to support a network of 600+ local educators and educational equity advocates to improve outcomes for students from historically underserved communities.

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Missouri teachers deserve better pay and sufficient support

By: and - May 9, 2023

Students all over the country, including children in Missouri, continue to suffer from learning loss, as well as inadequate academic and social support at school brought on by the pandemic. Compounding this problem is the fact that although decades of research show teachers being the single most important school-based factor impacting student achievement, many of […]