Tennessee Department of Education to Grant Signing and Retention Bonuses to Highly Effective Teachers
May 9, 2013
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education today announced a new package of financial incentives to help recruit and retain the most effective teachers to work in the state’s lowest performing schools.
Effective immediately, the department is offering funds to districts to pay $7,000 signing bonuses to every new teacher with a Level 5 rating on evaluation and, where available, value-added scores, who is brought into a Priority School for the 2013-14 school year. [Read more]
