Encouraging results from a study on cash incentives for transferring teachers to low-performing schools could have implications for districts eyeing options under the state’s new Local Control Funding Formula, or LCFF.The federally funded study by Mathematica Policy Research evaluated the impact of offering high-performing teachers a $20,000 bonus over two years to switch schools. It found that enough teachers took the offer, subsequently raised test scores of their students during the two years of the study and remained in their new schools at the same rate as other teachers after the money ended.
Mathematica didn’t name the 10 large, economically diverse districts from seven states in its findings, although an earlier news release from Mathematica mentioned Los Angles Unified and Sacramento City Unified as two California districts that participated, along with Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida.
A decade ago, when California briefly had more money, the state did a related initiative to lure newly licensed teachers into low-performing districts. For the two years it existed, the Governor’s Teaching Fellowship, also a $20,000 incentive program, awarded nearly 1,200 grants on the condition that teachers stay in their districts four years – or repay some of the money. Until the recession hit, the state also offered $11,000 in loan forgiveness (more for special education
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