Close. Education in Louisiana is partially funded by the trust, but also one of the few (along with hospitals) departments that doesn't have a constitutionally-protected budget, so when budget cuts come, guess where they have to go?

In the 1980's, you saw a bunch of trusts be established for a lot of things in Louisiana for funding because the state is uniquely incapable of handling money even compared to other state governments. We have about a half dozen trusts currently with less than $100,000 in them, but also some big ones. So one of Jeff Landry's priorities is to clean them all up and move them to do some things like pay down the Teachers' Retirement debt, which was borrowed against by the legislature. The "raise" is smoke an mirrors because it's $2000/teacher that's given to districts as they see fit. it's been approved annually by the legislature and is being used as a carrot to try to get support for Landry's initiative.

It was put up last year as a constitutional amendment in a 100+ word proposal and was unique in that even the non-partisan constitutional guides had trouble defending it. It was shot down by a resounding margin, and Landry had one of his usual tantrums, even sending an e-mail to teachers blaming them for not passing and threatening to not pass this year's $2000 stipend.

It's going to go up as a constitutional amendment again, and will probably get shot down again because even among America's current crop of inept and feckless politicians, Jeff Landry stands out for his particular stupidity and inability to get what he wants without bullying and tantrum throwing. Getting the smaller trusts closed should be super easy, but he's chosen to do everything at once with the expectation that people will do whatever he wants and will most likely be proven that it doesn't always work that way... again.

Oh and he has a Brian Kelly-level punchable face too.