The Dallas ISD seemingly is becoming more and more the Dallas INCENTIVE pay School District. GEEG, TEEG, DATE and TIF incentive pay plans.

Principal's Incentive Pay, Teacher's Incentive Pay, High Needs Incentive Pay. On and on and on. The Teacher's Incentive Pay Plan piloted this year in fifty-nine schools is supposedly going district-wide next year.

Well, I know that many of these incentive pay plans are being paid for, for now, by state and federal grants. These grants have requirements on the participating districts to pick up so much of the cost in "matching funds". Here's a question...or two. Exactly how much of the District's budget is being spent on these "matching funds"? How much of the District's budget will be spent to make the Teacher's Incentive Pay Plan a district-wide plan? Or three... Where will the District get all of this money?

I have a theory as to where they will get all of this money. They will "waive" the salary schedule, knock us all down to an annual base salary of around $35,000, and then the only way to earn more money will be to jump through all of the hoops they come up with.

Or, they'll implement all of these programs, run them long enough to scare and intimidate a lot of people with CEI's and SEI's, and then conveniently leave for the private sector to earn their millions when the grant money runs out.

I can't decide which scenario is worse...........