‘We have to increase teacher quality.’ Texas House advances bill on educator retention

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“To increase student outcomes, we have to increase teacher quality,” Houston Democrat Rep. Harold Dutton said.

Among the provisions in the wide-ranging legislation is a requirement for the Texas Education Agency to collect data on teacher vacancies, part of an effort to close the information vacuum around just how many open positions exist in the state.they’re still waiting on meaningful action from the Legislature, particularly around pay increases.

Dutton’s bill, meanwhile, would increase pay out of the Teacher Incentive Allotment, which allows districts to provide big stipends for a subset of high-performing educators in high-poverty and rural parts of Texas. Students placed with novice teachers are more likely to come from poor families and be children of color. New teachers also tend to achieve less academic growth with their classes, according to Texas Education Agency analysis.“One of the things we’ve been doing is we’ve been throwing teachers into the classroom, without any experience whatsoever,” Dutton said. “We’re going to help them learn how to teach, and we’re going to pay them to do that.

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