Landry, legislative leaders to announce details on planned teacher pay raise after Amendment 3 failure
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry, alongside Louisiana legislative leadership, is announcing details on a teacher pay raise on Tuesday.
After an amendment that intended to reallocate money from education funds to give teachers a permanent pay increase failed to garner support from voters, Landry re-emphasized his office's dedication to seeing a teacher pay raise.
"I want to make it very clear—if our teachers don't get a permanent raise this year, nobody in state government gets a pay raise," Landry wrote on X last week. "I mean nobody."
On Tuesday, Landry, alongside Senate President Cameron Henry and Speaker Phillip DeVillier, will meet at the Louisiana State Capitol, where they will, according to a report from the Louisiana Illuminator, announce a plan to reallocate $150 million in public school funds to replace the $2,000 stipend Amendment 3 intended to codify.
The Illuminator reported that the governor's plan takes money normally distributed to public school districts through a funding formula called the Minimum Foundation Program and uses it for teacher compensation.
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Landry's news conference at 11:30 a.m. will be streamed on WBRZ's social media platforms.