Blog

Your Education Road Map

Politics K-12®

Politics K-12 kept watch on education policy and politics in the nation’s capital and in the states. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: Federal, States.

Federal

Ed. Dept. Announces Teacher Incentive Fund Grant Winners

By Catherine Gewertz — September 23, 2010 1 min read
  • Save to favorites
  • Print

The U.S. Education Department has chosen 62 applicants as winners of its Teacher Incentive Fund grant competition. The winning school districts, nonprofit groups, and state education organizations get a combined total of $442 million. That represents the first two years of funding in the five-year, $1.2 billion program. You probably recall that the TIF program supports performance-pay plans for teachers and principals in high-need schools.

Click here for the list of winners, and here for the department’s press release. (There is also a score sheet here that shows you how the various applicants stacked up in the judging by a peer review panel.)

Our intrepid Teacher Beat colleague, Stephen Sawchuk, has written boatloads about TIF. For a refresher, start with his recent stories here and here.

Related Tags:

A version of this news article first appeared in the Politics K-12 blog.