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AttemptedEducation / Teacher Pay

Give Louisiana public school teachers a permanent pay raise.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 62%

Promise = a PERMANENT teacher pay raise, which as of the sources has NOT been delivered, but Landry led a genuine, sustained effort, so ATTEMPTED is correct. His mechanism (constitutional amendments dissolving education trust funds to make the temporary $2,000/$1,000 stipends permanent) was rejected by voters twice. After the 2026 session ended with no funding plan and a pay-cut risk, he signed an Executive Order redirecting about $168M to continue the temporary stipends for 2026-27 and created a task force to develop a permanent funding mechanism (formula/MFP revision) by Jan 1, 2027 — a continuation, not an achieved permanent raise. All four sources verified: (1) NOLA headline "Pay hike is uncertain after Amendment 2 fails" (direct fetch 429'd but confirmed via WebSearch, which returned the exact headline and body) supports the raise being undelivered/uncertain; (2) NOLA "Landry also wants BESE to revise the formula to incorporate the stipends as permanent pay raises" verbatim, documenting leadership toward permanence; (3) WAFB "session ended without a final plan to fund teacher pay raises" — substantively verbatim (minor bracket/formatting artifact only); (4) the governor's own "we're delivering" press-release quote is verbatim but is self-serving spin correctly discounted, since independent reporting shows a one-year stipend continuation plus a pending task force, not a permanent raise. The rating neither overstates (it does not credit the governor's "delivering" claim) nor understates the evidence. Moderate confidence because the task-force/formula outcome is still pending, and one could argue PARTIAL for the continued stipend; ATTEMPTED is the appropriately conservative call.

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