Teacher Pay

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.

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.

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.

The money was supposed to have been allocated in lieu of a permanent raise.

Gov. Jeff Landry doesn’t want to make a public school teacher pay hike from last year permanent, frustrating teachers who have been pushing for the pay bump.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has used his veto power to give higher education faculty a larger pay raise than the one legislators approved last month.

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.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards rolled out an executive budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that features significant new investments in education at every level and infrastructure projects.

Lawmakers and the governor entered the legislative session agreeing the state should raise teacher salaries and increase education spending. But it took...