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# Teachers get paid. Schools pay.
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/teachers-get-paid-schools-pay/
- Published: 2026-06-03T00:28:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-03T00:28:11.000Z
- Description: Gov. Jeff Landry wants to preserve teacher stipends by redirecting $168 million from Louisiana’s public school funding formula.
- Author: JR Ball
- Tags: Analysis

Gov. Jeff Landry wants to redirect **$168 million** from Louisiana’s public school funding formula to preserve teacher and support-worker pay stipends next year.

**Why it matters:** The proposal would keep educators from seeing a pay cut while leaving school systems with $168 million less to spend elsewhere in their budgets.

**The debate:** Landry argues districts can absorb the reduction through efficiencies and reserve funds. School leaders counter that rising costs for insurance, fuel and other expenses are already straining budgets.

**The payoff:** The money would be used to pay stipends of $2,000 for teachers and $1,000 for school support workers, the same amounts they have received over the past three years.

**What’s next:** The proposal now heads to lawmakers, who must approve the funding shift.

**Local angle:** This comes at a time when the East Baton Rouge school district is already dealing with declining enrollment and a budget that projects lower revenue. Any reduction in state funding could further limit the district’s financial flexibility.

**The bottom line:** Preserving a teacher stipend by shifting money from elsewhere in the public school funding formula sets up a debate over how much room districts have left to absorb the revenue loss.