re: Somebody please explain Landry's "school choice" plan to me like I'm 5.

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The rest of a district’s operating expenses are paid by local property and sales taxes. Also, some additional money may come from other sources like the federal school lunch program, federal and state grants or programs like Mckenny Vento, and the legislature for teacher stipends.

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Stipends that some districts hold in accounts to earn interest on before paying out. A stipend doesn't make up for a raise either; teachers have been promised raises for a while and never received one. Instead, they want to LOWER the standards to become a teacher in the state in order to combat the lack of teachers. Instead of just raising the pay and the standard to become a teacher, Louisiana goes the opposite direction. Wonder how some private schools will handle the fact that their teachers are not actually certified teachers.