About this episode

Louisiana lawmakers are facing a crucial vote on reallocating funds for teacher pay stipends.

Louisiana lawmakers have until 5pm on June 23 to vote on whether to move $168 million from public school operations to fund teacher pay stipends. We’ll go over what’s going on with Julie O'Donoghue, a senior writer at the Louisiana Illuminator.

People in this episode

Host: Tommy Tucker

Guest: Julie O'Donoghue

Topics covered

• teacher pay
• education funding
• Louisiana lawmakers
• public school operations
• budget allocation

Keywords

• Louisiana
• teacher pay
• education funding
• lawmakers
• public schools
• budget
• vote

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Louisiana Illuminator

Places: Louisiana

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