LIVINGSTON - After a failed tax proposal last year, the Livingston Parish School Board approved a tax proposal to fund salary increases for school employees Thursday evening.Last year, LPPS Superintendent Joe Murphy proposed a one percent sales tax that ultimately failed. The Livingston Parish Public Schools official said it's the biggest disappointment of his career, and it still looms over his head to this very day. Murphy has long pushed to fairly compensate his employees. The failed... Read this story