Restore the $9,000 Teacher Raise Tied to National Board Certification

Texas made a promise to its best teachers through the Teacher Incentive Allotment, and a bureaucratic standards dispute is being used to break it.

A letter to your state legislators. Facts checked July 24, 2026.

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Subject Don't Let Texas Lose Its Best Teachers Over a Paperwork Fight

Texas teachers work incredibly hard, and our state made a real commitment to them through the Teacher Incentive Allotment — up to $9,000 a year for educators who earned National Board Certification. That certification is one of the most rigorous teaching credentials in the country. It means a teacher spent years proving they are exceptional at their job. Texas families benefit when those teachers stay in our classrooms.

But SBEC made a decision that put all of that at risk. They told the National Board it had to remove certain language from its materials or Texas would stop recognizing the certification entirely — deadline November 2025. Whatever you think about the underlying debate, the result is the same: Texas teachers who already earned that certification, who planned their careers and their finances around that raise, are now caught in the middle of a bureaucratic dispute they had no part in creating. Some are leaving for states that still honor what they worked for. We are paying to recruit and train excellent teachers, then driving them out the door.

I'm asking you to step in and protect the Teacher Incentive Allotment for every educator who holds National Board Certification, regardless of what happens in that standards fight. These teachers earned their credentials. They kept their end of the deal. Texas should keep ours.

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I'm calling because Texas teachers who earned National Board Certification are losing access to raises they were promised — up to $9,000 a year — because of a dispute between SBEC and the National Board. That's not fair to teachers who planned their lives around that pay.
These are some of our best teachers. National Board Certification takes years to earn. When we yank the financial reward after the fact, we're telling great educators their work doesn't matter here.
Teachers are already leaving Texas for states that pay better. This situation is making it worse. We are actively pushing out the people we spent years and taxpayer money recruiting.
I want Representative [Name] to protect the Teacher Incentive Allotment for nationally certified teachers — all of them. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm watching when I vote.

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