Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland secured $198 million for the stipends by identifying one-time funds from various sources. The budget bill, House Bill 1, advanced with no objections and will ...

Chairman Jack McFarland led the Louisiana House Appropriations Committee in crafting a bipartisan compromise on the state budget. BATON ROUGE--The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $49.4 ...

Jack McFarland said. One of those cuts proposed in the budget is $30 million out of the High Dosage Tutoring Program that helps Louisiana students who may start to fall behind in school.

At the heart of the plan is House Bill 1, the state’s main operating budget authored by Appropriations Chairman Jack McFarland, R-Winnfield. The bill, originally submitted by Gov. Jeff Landry as ...

Louisiana would spend nearly $200 million on one-time pay stipends for public school teachers and other school employees next school year under a proposed budget advanced by the House ...

Jack McFarland said. “That was not the intention, and I don’t think that’s what taxpayers expect us to do.” The plan would also move to privatize many of the positions and responsibilities ...