As Louisiana’s next legislative session starts Monday, education bills already filed by lawmakers run the gamut from changing how schools are funded to making the ACT a graduation requirement instead of end-of-course exams and overhauling eligibility requirements for TOPS college scholarships.
Perhaps the most controversial education issue on the table is teacher pay.
Last month, voters overwhelmingly rejected a jam-packed constitutional amendment championed by Gov. Jeff Landry that would have, alongside several other tax policy changes, provided funding for teacher pay increases. Now, some lawmakers are proposing bills that would attempt again to revise the constitution in order to fund teacher pay raises…