The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is going beyond the normal midyear hirings as it tries to fill close to 60 newly created positions before students return from Christmas break Tuesday.

The system is also starting new professional training programs for employees interested in becoming school leaders and principals.

The new teaching positions are part of an effort to lighten the burden of teachers and principals at the lowest performing schools in the system.

These new hires include 22 new middle- and high-school teachers and 11 new elementary deans of students.

School officials, meanwhile, also are hiring 25 new teachers for a new apprenticeship program. These teachers, most of them recent college graduates, will spend the spring working in low-performing schools, preparing to teach on their own in the fall.

School system human resource officers express confidence they will fill every opening by next week.

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