La. lawmakers pass state budget with temporary pay bump for teachers

BATON ROUGE – Under a compromise approved in the chaotic closing minutes of the spring
session Thursday, state lawmakers limited a $2,000 pay increase for teachers to a one-year
stipend and cut $100 million from what the Senate had sought for the Louisiana Department of Health.Those moves came even though legislators had more than $2 billion of revenue at their disposal beyond what had originally been expected to supplement both the current budget and one for the fiscal year starting