TEACHER INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
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Governor's Educator Excellence Grants
(GEEG) Program appropriated approximately $10 million in federal funds, which were targeted for 100 campuses with high percentages of economically disadvantaged students and were cited for high achievement (rated exemplary or recognized by TEA) or showed significant improvement in the areas of math and reading (as measured by TEA Comparable Improvement . . . .
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Texas Educator Excellence Grants (TEEG) Program appropriated approximately $198 million in state funds, which were targeted for 2,241 campuses with high percentages of economically disadvantaged students and were cited for high achievement (rate exemplary or recognized by TEA) or showed significant improvement in the areas of math and reading (as measured by TEA Comparable Improvement . . . .
Published Reports:
District Awards for Teacher Excellence (DATE) Program appropriated approximately $147 million in state funds, which are targeted for 203 districts participating in Cycle 1 of the program. The purpose of the DATE program is to provide funding to support the establishment of district-wide goals and the implementation of a financial awards system designed to: 1) award teachers for positively impacting student achievement, 2) target the district's most in-need campuses to improve teacher quality, and 3) create capacity and sustainability for improved instruction . . . .
Preliminary findings from the DATE evaluation are found in the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Program: Year Two Evaluation Report, which is available at the following web link:
Published Reports:
Current Research:
TEA has partnered with Vanderbilt University to evaluate the short-term and long-term effectiveness of the DATE program on a number of key program outcomes such as student achievement and teacher turnover, mobility, and quality. The first annual evaluation report is scheduled to be published in fall 2009.
Contact: ProgramEval@tea.state.tx.us
Last Updated
November 5, 2009
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