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Click here to find out more details about the 2022-2023 pay raise.

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REC Recognizes Additional Funding – Will it Go Towards Your Raise?

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On Monday, May 9th the Revenue Estimating Conference met to review and revise the Official Revenue Forecast for FY22 and FY23 as well as recognize FY21 year-end balances. The REC recognized an additional $350 million in revenue for this year (and $104 million for next year). Now, the question is: how will the legislature choose to use this additional funding? MORE

Week 8 in the Legislature

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On Monday morning the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) will meet to review and revise the Official Revenue Forecast for FY22 and FY23 as well as recognize FY21 year-end balances. It is widely expected that the REC will recognize additional revenue. The question is, how will the legislature choose to spend this additional revenue. LFT has long advocated that some of these additional monies should go towards teacher and school employee pay raises. We have asked legislators to boost the pay raise from $1,500 for certified staff and $750 for classified personnel to $2,500/$1,250 as a minimum. In truth, teachers and school employees deserve even more and as neighboring states continue to boost pay for their educators, Louisiana falls further behind. Next week, legislators will know how much additional revenue they have to work with and the horse-trading will begin. MORE

Important: Federation Email Address

Attention All:

We have had some issues with the Spectrum/Charter email system these past couple of months, so we have moved in a new direction with our emails. We have had a forward and automatic reply feature set up on all emails to ensure that we don't miss an email. However, we have recently discovered that our main email sttamfed@charter.net is completely out of commission. Spectrum says that the email has been inactive for quite some time and they don't understand how we have been using it. To top it all off, there is no way to recover it. As a result, if you try to email sttamfed@charter

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Sick Leave Bank Application

You can apply for the sick leave bank between May 10th and June 10th.  Your application must be postmarked by June 10, 2022 in order to be considered to be a part of the bank.  Please look at pages 33 and 34 in the contract to see all of the rules and limitations.  You can find a printable version of the application by clicking here.

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Week 7 in the Legislature

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It is widely acknowledged that there will be funding available for additional pay increases. To increase the pay raise, the Legislature would have to vote to return the MFP to BESE so that BESE can amend it. BESE has already agreed to the increase, so the decision rests with the Legislature, and some are already pushing back against further increases, claiming there isn’t enough money to go around. Meanwhile, the legislature has taken up a number of bills that limit or redirect funding that could otherwise be used for our public schools... MORE