In the past few weeks, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes have approved or proposed substantial increases in teacher pay for the upcoming school year.
A handful of other public school districts outside the Baton Rouge region — Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto and Lafourche parishes — have done the same.
Most school leaders, though, are holding off on major pay changes until it’s clear whether Gov. Jeff Landry’s plan to cut nearly $170 million from school budgets to pay teacher stipends survives legal challenge…