Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry continues to make the case for redirecting $168 million of education funding to teacher pay.
Landry told WWL's Newell Normand on Thursday that there are fewer public school students in Louisiana, but spending continues to go up, but not on teacher's salaries, who he say are making less when adjusted for inflation.
"Take a look at where they're spending money, and start to prioritize the revenue that they're taking in," said Landry. "We've got 110,000 less public school students today than we did when I graduated. We're spending twice as much money today as we did in 1988, and yet teacher pay, has actually, when adjusted for inflation, gone down."
A state judge last week temporarily halted the governor's executive order to fund the stipends of $2,000 per teacher and $1,000 for support workers.
