A proposed program with the stated purpose to “increase teacher retention in the classroom, especially in high-poverty schools, and simultaneously increase the recruitment of new teachers into the system,” got a somewhat frosty reception from the Box Elder School District Board of Education last week, with board members and administrators saying they liked the idea of rewarding effective teachers, but that the law comes with a lot of drawbacks. S.B. 173, passed in 2024, sets the process for identifying and selecting teachers for awards, as well as allocates million to fund a tiered award structure. The program is about...

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