Alamo Heights, Friendswood teachers would get $6,000 raises, while Houston and San...
Houston ISD teacher Loretta Mallett-Fontenot speaks Monday, March 13, 2023, at the Texas AFL-CIO building in Austin during a rally of the Texas American Federation of Teachers as part of their day of activities at the Capitol.While nearly everyone agrees that teachers deserve pay raises, there’s a divide over how to do it that has public school advocates in the House and Senate speaking out against bills to increase education funding.
Despite the agreement on the need to do something as inflation eats away at school funding and a teacher shortage crisis hits districts around the state, there’s anything but agreement on the methods and extent for the fixes. Under the bill, all public school teachers should qualify for a $2,000 pay increase. But in school districts with fewer than 20,000 students, those increases would jump to $6,000. The move was intended to help small rural districts attract teachers, Creighton said, but the results would benefit mid-sized, wealthy districts, too.
Rep. Ken King, R-Canadian, has authored a bill that he said would tie future increases to per-student state education funding to inflation — a major priority of education advocates. He estimated that under that proposal, per-student funding would be increased by $140 over the next two years.
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