With the defeat of Amendment 2 at the ballot box, the question now becomes – what will become of teacher pay? The amendment would have converted stipends of two-thousand dollars for teachers and one-thousand dollars for support staff into permanent pay increases. It will take 200-million dollars to keep salaries at their current level. House Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland says the big challenge for lawmakers is finding that money amid a budget shortfall.

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The clock is tik-tok’ing for TikTok. Barring a sale, the app will go dark for U.S. users on Saturday. Tech analyst Haggai Davis says the Trump administration is helping facilitate a sale.

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There are currently two offers on the table – one from a group led by Amazon and one from AppLovin, a similar app owned by Steve Winn.

Parents who are curious on how their tax dollars are spent on public education can visit the School Transparency Project Portal at the State Treasury’s website. Sean Richardson has more.

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A Baton Rouge teenager pleads guilty to conspiring to have her mother killed. 18-year-old Jermyne Lewis admitted to her role in the plot in which her mother, Markeshia Stone, was shot to death. Lewis was sentenced to life in prison; but since she was a juvenile at the time of the crime, she will be eligible for parole in 25 years.