BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) – Ila Marcela Jacobs, the daughter of a deceased Louisiana teacher, was arrested for fraudulently receiving over $269,000 in retirement benefits from the Teachers Retirement ...

After voters rejected Amendment 2, Gov. Landry says it’s “back to the drawing board” on teacher raises. He says the failed ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A woman is accused of fraud tied to her deceased mother’s Louisiana retirement benefits account. According to the Attorney General’s Office, the Louisiana Bureau ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Teachers are one step closer to getting a pay raise after bills advanced out of the Louisiana House Monday. The legislation would pave the way for a $2,000 a year ...

Louisiana lawmakers advanced two measures Tuesday that would revise the state constitution to pay for educator raises in later years, despite some concerns from teachers union leaders — including ...

Louisiana legislators are reintroducing key parts of the recently rejected Amendment 2, this time in a much more streamlined fashion. Amendment 2, rejected by voters in March, had attempted a sweeping ...

The Louisiana Legislature has unanimously approved a bill that grants a wish list of retirement reforms state higher education employees put forward, though it lacks one enticement faculty and staff ...

Louisiana Teachers’ Retirement System, Baton Rouge, approved commitments totaling up to $400 million. The $27.4 billion pension fund’s board committed up to $250 million to Oaktree Real Estate Income ...

The state Constitution requires that the steadily growing debt be paid off by 2029. Eighteen-and-a-half billion dollars. That's how much Louisiana taxpayers will have to come up with over the next 17 ...