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re: Richland Parish teachers getting upwards of $50k bonus checks thanks to META

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/12/26 at 8:37 am to dallastigers

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Why do teachers get bonused based off of sales tax collections? Was that set up before META started being constructed or after?

This has been a thing for years in Richland Parish apparently. The article says last years “13th check” was a few thousand.

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re: I thought that Data Center Tax Breaks were hurt local government?

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/11/26 at 1:31 pm to doubleb

They get a portion of sales tax collected at the end of the school year.

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Richland Parish teachers getting upwards of $50k bonus checks thanks to META

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/11/26 at 1:13 pm

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Many Richland Parish teachers are receiving sales tax bonus checks of more than $50,000 generated by the Louisiana Meta data center project.

Richland Parish Chamber of Commerce founder Scott Franklin told USA Today Network "vested, certified teachers" in the rural school district will receive $50,900 for what's known as the "13th check," while other teachers and staff will receive bonuses of more than $17,000.

The annual payouts are determined by sales tax collections, which have skyrocketed since Meta began construction on its $27 billion data center.

Our hope is that teachers across the state and the South see this and want to teach in Richland Parish," Franklin said in an interview with USA Today Network. "It gives our community the opportunity to attract top teaching talent, which in turn will elevate the education of our children, which they deserve."

Sales tax collections are expected to be elevated for at least three to five more years during the height of construction, though they aren't guaranteed.

"I'm confident this isn't a one and done," Franklin said.

Richland Parish Schools Superintendent Sheldon Jones hasn't returned texts and calls from USA Today Network, but Meta's Louisiana community manager said the company is pleased with the impact of the project.

"Educators in Richland Parish are doing incredible work, and we are proud that our contributions help support the teachers who are shaping the next generation right here," said Meta's Henry Thornton. "We're proud to be part of the Louisiana community.

Franklin's family sold the state the original 1,400-acre site on which Meta is building now more than 20 years ago for the Louisiana Department of Economic Development to market as an industrial megasite.

Meta announced its project in 2024.

"We knew from the beginning this was going to be a transformational opportunity for a region that was suffering an economic and population decline," Franklin said. "And one of the things we believed could transform was the trajectory of our school system

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That’s awesome for those teachers.

Meanwhile Superintendents across the state are bitching and whining because Jeff told them to cut the fat & pay for their own teacher raises.

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re: Kleinpeter Family is Throwing a Fit

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/10/26 at 2:22 pm to loogaroo

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It's backing water up all the way into Riverbend Subdivision now.

This needs to be documented. They are building in a Type 1 Conveyance Zone which stipulates their project cannot cause any flooding impact to surrounding properties. I mean frick they’re literally building in a designated wetland.

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re: Kleinpeter Family is Throwing a Fit

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/10/26 at 11:23 am to SECretariat

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That shite is flooding so badly right now that it's hard to imagine pushing it all into the city's storm system or a retention pond will remedy the situation.

It won’t. The water will be pushed to already established neighborhoods and the roadway.

If I were the owner of Lakeside, I’d be taking pictures everytime that cleared out land next to them floods. He’ll have water in his establishment once those homes are built.

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re: Kleinpeter Family is Throwing a Fit

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/10/26 at 10:27 am to Kafka

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as long as it's not apartments who cares

There’s a lot of reasons to care. Look what’s happening on Burbank.

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re: I have been seeing a lot more white gig workers lately

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/10/26 at 9:39 am to GreatLakesTiger24

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Non meth head looking white people doing food delivery, uber/lyft, grocery orders, etc

It’s called a second job because life is expensive as frick.

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re: Tarsha wants your MoNay! BR peeps need to get out and vote.

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/9/26 at 5:56 pm to armytiger96

Wrong. This is purely a tax election

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re: The ever collapsing facade of privacy.

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/9/26 at 9:27 am to sidewalkside

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can’t fathom the amount of true, verifiable, accurate, intimate, personal data that large corporations (that many of you have never heard of I.e not Facebook) have about each and every one of us.

And to think people willingly submitted their DNA samples in the name of genealogy.

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re: Interesting article about the shrinking public schools in Louisiana

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/9/26 at 9:25 am to SparkyWilson

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With the way it turned out, I started looking into it more. The disturbing thing to me is EBRP School District will have $840 million for the coming year with about 42,000 students. That's $20,000 per student. Central and Zachary do it for $14,000 to $15,000. What's EBRP's excuse?

They have something like 80 schools they are over. Nevermind that 20+ of them operate with less than 300 students.

Also, as much as people threw up a fight against STG school district & the money EBR would lose, nobody brought up that 28% of the EBRPSS budget is now being transferred to Charter schools.

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re: Western Sky Last Night

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/9/26 at 9:22 am to blueridgeTiger

You can see Jupiter pretty regularly at night.

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re: Interesting article about the shrinking public schools in Louisiana

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/8/26 at 9:00 am to TigerintheNO

I posted a ton of statistics during the St. George debate.

In EBR since 2021:

Administrator pay has rose 17.2% while teacher pay has only rose 5%, much of that from state mandated raises rather than local district-funded increases. Specific roles like directors and coordinators rose 20%.

•The average budget allocation for admins is 2.3 times higher than the allocation for a classroom teacher. Total annual expenditures for admins grew 12.8%.

•The admin to teacher ratio is 1:14 meanwhile the teacher to student ratio is 1:19.

• In the last decade Admin positions have increased 14.7% while teaching positions have decreased 13.3%.

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re: Alzheimer’s patient gets back speech and memory in groundbreaking mushroom trial

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/5/26 at 12:45 pm to GRTiger

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Everytime I read about mushrooms, it makes me wonder why I'm not taking them on occasion.

Microdosing has incredible benefits.

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re: Woman shot to death outside of Hammond gas station

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/4/26 at 2:18 pm to Breauxsif

I’m talking about the person that gets out the vehicle to go in the store.

Someone theorized it was a husband setting up his woman. But that doesn’t look like a man to me.

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re: Woman shot to death outside of Hammond gas station

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/4/26 at 2:04 pm to Nbern2014

Pretty sure the driver is a fat black woman. Video looks like it has titties

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re: Vermilion Catholic High School to implement policy restricting social media use

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/4/26 at 9:10 am to T_don

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School leaders said the changes are designed to protect students online, promote healthy technology habits and reduce distractions

I bet every kid is given a Chromebook though.

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re: New Louisiana bill allows colleges to raise tuition up to 10 percent a year

Posted by SoggyCerealClub on 6/2/26 at 4:49 pm to LSUSports247

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TOPS should be treated like a loan and require repayment if you don’t finish and get your degree.

Amongst many other requirements.

TOPS needs a complete overhaul. It used to be reserved for the best & the brightest, now anyone who has a pulse & a HS diploma can get it. The smart kids are getting their free(ish) tuition and hauling arse out of state so change that too.

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