The House and Senate have a deal on a new state budget Governor Holcomb calls “transformational.”
The two-year budget gives schools a billion dollars in new money: a four-point-six-percent increase the first year, and nearly that much the second.
House Speaker Todd Huston says that’s enough to cover the 600-million dollars a commission said was needed to make teacher pay competitive with other Midwestern states.
While Republicans have resisted telling local school boards how to spend their money, Huston says that could change if the windfall doesn’t lead to the expected raises.
