There may be hope for an extension of the teacher stipend. Governor Landry and legislative leaders will hold a news conference at 11:30 this morning and the topic is teacher pay. D’Shay Oaks, the president of the Louisiana Association of Educators, says given how teachers have helped students improve academically, the legislature should reward them accordingly.

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According to the Louisiana Illuminator, Landry will announce at the press conference that he’s looking to take 150-million dollars from the general school district fund and use that to pay teachers.

There’s a week to go in the legislative session and Jeremy Alford of Lapolitics-dot-com says there is a lot of work left for lawmakers…

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And that bill actually received final legislative passage last night and it will result in an additional 50-million dollars to help homeowners pay for a fortified roof.

The SEC spring meetings kick off today, and doubling the size of the College Football Playoff will be a major topic. Jeff Palermo has the story.

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LSU football coach Lane Kiffin could be reprimanded for what he told Vanity Fair. Kiffin told the magazine that when he was coaching at Ole Miss, recruits told him their grandparents did not want them to live in Oxford because of it’s ties to the Confederacy. Kiffin has defended his comments by saying that people are not reading the actual words in the article and those comments came from family members of recruits and that is not his own opinion