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Moderator says budget includes large teacher pay allocation; transcript number unclear

State briefing · August 19, 2026

Summary

The moderator said the recent budget included a large salary categorical for teacher pay but the transcript records the dollar amount imprecisely; no line-item or source documents were provided in the briefing.

The Moderator said the state budget included a substantial, categorical increase for teacher salaries and characterized it as an action prior administrations had not taken. In the transcript the Moderator stated: "We just did our budget had, 1.5, I think, $8,000,000,000 in our salary categorical just for for increases for school teachers, and no 1 was doing that prior to to our administration."

The numeric statement in the transcript is unclear and cannot be treated as a precise figure without supporting budget documents. The article therefore reports that a large teacher-salary allocation was claimed but that the exact amount is "not specified" in the transcript; verification requires the budget appropriation schedule or the state's published budget documents.

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