The legislative session starts this week and it’s a fiscal session in more ways than one. Not only is it that every-other-year session where the focus is mostly on money matters, but it’s one where lawmakers will try to sort out a plan for spending a windfall of federal covid-relief dollars. The combination of those […]
It’s almost hard to comprehend, but from April of 2020 to today the federal government has earmarked roughly $4.6 billion to K-12 education in Louisiana as a response to the COVID pandemic. That’s a lot of cash. Much of it is going to cover or reimburse real-world expenses directly related to the coronavirus. We don’t […]
This year’s legislative session starts in April, and CABL will be working with our RESET Louisiana partners, PAR, and the Committee of 100, on a full legislative agenda. Prior to the session we are highlighting some of the issues we will be focusing on. This time, we look at state fiscal policies. In 2019, RESET […]
This year’s legislative session starts in April, and CABL will be working with our RESET Louisiana partners PAR and the Committee of 100 on a full legislative agenda. Prior to the session we are highlighting some of the issues we will be focusing on. Here’s a look at higher education. The good news for higher […]
This year’s legislative session starts in April, and CABL will be working with our RESET Louisiana partners PAR and the Committee of 100 on a full legislative agenda. Prior to the session, we are highlighting some of the issues we will be focusing on. This week we look at K-12 education. There may not be […]
Last week Governor John Bel Edwards unveiled his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year. Thanks to another injection of federal dollars, the budget actually shows some growth over the prior year. That amounts to some good news for public education. The increase in revenues the budget envisions is modest – about $186 million in […]
This year’s legislative session starts in April, and CABL will be working with our RESET Louisiana partners PAR and the Committee of 100 on a full legislative agenda. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight some of the issues we will be focusing on, and we begin with early education. There is good news […]
The Tax Foundation, an independent national tax policy organization, recently released a new report on individual income taxes. Its study found that Louisiana’s top income tax rate is higher than what you see in most of the southern and regional states we compete with for jobs. That doesn’t sound encouraging, but as is often the […]
A new publication from the Public Affairs Research Council is one every person interested in Louisiana government should read. Louisiana Constitutional Reform: An Enduring Fiscal Framework takes a comprehensive look under the hood of our constitution and suggests ways to make it better. As the Louisiana Legislature prepares to embark on a legislative session where […]
The Louisiana Department of Education recently released a new roadmap for the future of public education. It includes a list of six major goals, a framework of priorities that reflect the department’s values, and accompanying data that highlight the urgency with which we must work to address Louisiana’s education needs. The summary is only ten […]
