Houston ISD will not pass state teacher incentive pay directly to teachers, and instead it will use that money to fund a new districtwide teacher compensation system, according to letters sent to teachers this week.
The decision means teachers will not receive direct payments linked to their performance under the state’s Teacher Incentive Allotment system. That money will instead support HISD’s own compensation system for all teachers based on the district’s new evaluation system.
Under state law, the Teacher Incentive Allotment allows schools to submit locally developed criteria to grade teachers and data to the state…