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Perryton ISD approves teacher incentive allotment plan for submission to state
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Perryton ISD trustees approved the Teacher Incentive Allotment committee's plan and voted to submit it to the Texas Education Agency. The plan prioritizes core teachers, sets a 60/40 student-performance/evaluation weighting, and specifies spending and eligibility rules; board vote was 7–0.
PERRYTON ISD trustees voted to submit the district's Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) plan to the Texas Education Agency after a presentation by district staff outlining eligibility, evaluation measures and spending rules.
The board approved the committee's report on a voice vote recorded in the minutes as 7–0. Administrator (speaker S1) walked through the committee's recommendations, saying the plan is ready for submission and implementation steps would follow if the state signs off.
The committee recommended that, in the initial year, eligibility be limited to core teachers (K–12 English language arts, math, science and social studies). The plan calls for student performance to count for 60% of a teacher's designation and the teacher evaluation (T-TESS) to count for 40%.
S1 said the district will use third-party measures for growth where possible: NWEA MAP for several non-STAAR grades and STAR or EOC/region vendor tests for other grades and subjects. "NWEA will be determining the growth for students in those areas," S1 said. The presentation noted that the state-recommended cut scores will be used to define designation levels (for example, an acknowledged level keyed to an average domain score of 3.5 and 50% student growth; higher levels and percent-growth thresholds were also shown to trustees).
The plan specifies that 90% of TIA funds must go to teacher compensation with up to 10% used for assessment and related costs; the committee proposed using the 10% to help offset assessment purchases (for example, NWEA MAP). S1 said the committee agreed that, if a teacher leaves the district for reasons other than retirement, the campus keeps the money and that campus funds would be reallocated to instructional paraprofessionals at that campus.
S1 summarized implementation timing: the district intends to submit the plan to TEA in the next one to two weeks and expects initial feedback by late June or July. Trustees asked clarifying questions about designation portability and timing; S1 confirmed designations last five years and travel with a teacher who moves to another TIA-participating campus, though local payout timing may be affected if money is retained by a campus.
The board approved the committee's report to submit the TIA plan to the state by motion; the minutes record the motion and a 7–0 vote.
The superintendent and staff said they will capture data during the coming school year (data-capture year) and follow state guidance before making compensation payouts in later years.
