March 18, 2019      4:18 PM

Teacher merit pay provisions apparently struck from Texas House school finance bill

Those close to the drafting process say most sections around teacher pay have been struck from HB 3, replaced with a simple pay raise tied to increases in the basic allotment offered in the bill

The most ambitious language around teacher pay appears to be scrubbed from the substitute of the Texas House’s school finance bill to be discussed in House Public Education on Tuesday.

The model for teacher pay in the original House Bill 3 was an ambitious, but somewhat problematic, model.

But it was, for all intents and purposes, the preferred model for both lawmakers and teacher groups in the early weeks of session because of two claims: the bill would not rely on test scores to reward teacher performance and would not be a “merit pay” bill.

By Kimberly Reeves

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