Teacher Pay

Legislators are under pressure to find money to replace $2,000 and $1,000 stipends that public school teachers and support staff, respectively, have received for the past two years.

Gov. Jeff Landry tied public school teacher pay to a constitutional amendment on budget and tax policies that failed spectacularly at the polls Saturday.

Questions remain over whether teachers, school workers will see a pay reduction.

Here's what we know about each amendment and how various organizations and advocacy groups feel about them.

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.

The Louisiana House has advanced a pair of bills that would make pay raises permanent for K-12 public school teachers and staff.

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.

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.

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.

Last week, Governor John Bel Edwards debuted his $32 billion dollar budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. Unsurprisingly, the second-term…