TEA awarded over $290 million as part of teacher incentive program last school year

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced Tuesday over $290 million in Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) funds were awarded to nearly 25,000 designated Texas teachers during the 2023-24 school year.TEA said 481 school systems participated in the TIA program, and 306 of them were fully approved to grant teacher designations. To gain full approval, these school systems had to go through a "comprehensive" application process that assessed "data from classroom observations and