Perryton ISD staff outlines plan to pursue Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment

An unnamed district staff member told the Perryton ISD school board that the district is exploring adopting the Texas Teacher Incentive Allotment, a state program that can provide additional salary for designated teachers and that requires a locally developed plan approved by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

The staff member said the program uses three designation levels that carry different statewide funding ranges and that the actual dollar awards depend on district characteristics such as rural status and percentage of low‑socioeconomic students. "The teacher incentive allotment...is a way to provide teachers a higher income while still remaining in the classroom," the staff member said.

The staff member said the district would need to develop a plan that includes at minimum a student growth measure and a teacher evaluation measure, submit it for TEA approval, run a baseline year of data collection, then begin payouts in the third…