A Big Raise For Texas Teachers: New Plan Will Give Top Educators $100,000 to Fight COVID Learning

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A Big Raise For Texas Teachers: New Plan Will Give Top Educators $100,000 to Fight COVID Learning Loss at State’s Poorest Schools


In a move to create educational equity, Texas is set to offer some of its best teachers more than $100,000 annually, rewarding them for work in the state’s poorest schools where COVID-19 has devastated communities resulting in months, if not years, of learning loss.

“We need our best teachers to be able to do this work,” San Antonio ISD Associate Superintendent of Strategy, Talent, and Innovation Mohammed Choudhury said. “We need them to extend their work and their leadership beyond their classroom to not only be able to move beyond COVID-19, but to build back better.”

For the 193 teachers in San Antonio designated to lead this effort, that could mean extra days of intervention during holiday breaks throughout the school year, and tutoring after school and during the summer.

Several Texas school districts already run similar master teacher programs, or similar incentives that pay teachers extra stipends tied to their performance in the classroom.

Read more: https://www.the74million.org/article/a-big-raise-for-texas-teachers-new-plan-will-give-top-educators-100000-to-fight-covid-learning-loss-at-states-poorest-schools/


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