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Gov. Jeff Landry tied public school teacher pay to a constitutional amendment on budget and tax policies that failed spectacularly at the polls Saturday.
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Questions remain over whether teachers, school workers will see a pay reduction.
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Here's what we know about each amendment and how various organizations and advocacy groups feel about them.
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Louisiana’s two largest teacher unions have come out in support of a sweeping constitutional amendment Gov. Jeff Landry has backed that would rewrite large swaths of the state’s public tax and budget policies. The measure will appear on the March 29 ballot.
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The Louisiana House has advanced a pair of bills that would make pay raises permanent for K-12 public school teachers and staff.
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Tell us what it’s like to live on a teacher’s wage in Louisiana and we might reach out for an interview. The deadline is March 8.
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Louisiana lawmakers are in more agreement about teacher pay raises but are still at odds about whether to raise the state’s spending cap — a decision that will impact educators’ salaries, infrastructure projects and the overall budget.
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As Mississippi lawmakers plot how to keep more teachers in the state, educators warn the state’s bill targeting critical race theory could drive them away.
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Last week, Governor John Bel Edwards debuted his $32 billion dollar budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. Unsurprisingly, the second-term…
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Lawmakers and the governor entered the legislative session agreeing the state should raise teacher salaries and increase education spending. But it took…