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Demetris White works with fourth-grade math students during summer school classes at Michael R. Null Middle School in Sheldon Independent School District, Thursday, June 20, 2019. Since 2019, an initiative known as the Teacher Incentive Allotment Program has allowed some high-performing teachers to earn raises and in some cases six-figure salaries.Merit pay program for Texas teachers pushes salaries past $100,000.
,” : As important as a teacher’s skills must be to provide the best educational results possible, it’s time — long overdue — to pay them an honest salary, not only to keep them in the classroom, but also to attract the very best instructors future generations can receive. Surely, any doctoral degree graduate eager to teach is as valuable as any executive manager. There could never be a better reason to use U.S. tax revenue funds to get it done. You don’t need a college education to only earn an annual income of $33,660, the minimum teacher salary in Texas.While identifying the really excellent teachers is relatively easy , identifying the next level of good teachers to be financially rewarded is much more difficult.
By adopting the concepts of the Second Mile Plan, the state has the opportunity to return to a position of national educational leadership.