The proposal would expand a program that allows districts to award bonuses to educators based on their students’ academic growth.

A Texas Senate committee gave unanimous approval to across-the-board pay raises for public school teachers, sending the nill to the full Senate for a

Last school year, the average teacher in Texas made thousands of dollars less than teachers in other states. A nearly $5 billion bill filed Tuesday in the Legislature seeks to provide across-the-board raises and put more money toward bonuses.