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Louisiana education board splits with governor on financing

by Associated Press
| March 10, 2020 11:30 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top school board Tuesday backed a nearly $4 billion K-12 financing plan that would boost spending next year beyond Gov. John Bel Edwards' budget proposal, but steer only a portion of the new dollars to teacher pay raises.

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