BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order giving Louisiana teachers $2,000 pay raises, but the money to cover those raises is not coming from the state legislature.
Instead, individual school districts are being asked to find the money in their own budgets, and some say the mandate could hit them hard.
On average, Louisiana teachers make $55,000 a year. That is more than $10,000 below the national average.
Landry wants to shift $168 million in student funding to allow teachers to receive $2,000 stipends this year, with permanent pay raises to follow next year.
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