Teachers won’t get $1K pay raise bump after all, but other budget measures move forward

For weeks, Louisiana’s legislative leadership publicly flirted with the possibility of upping K-12 teacher salaries by $1,000, hedging that commitment on the recognition of additional tax collections for the upcoming fiscal year. Those revenues materialized — but the pay raises did not. The Senate Finance Committee on Monday released their mark-up of the state’s multibillion-dollar spending plan…