Notice Announcing Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program Competition
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This notice invites applications for the Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program. It's designed to help states and local education agencies create and expand compensation systems that improve student performance. Eligible applicants are those serving high-poverty areas and must apply by June 2026.
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Key Changes
- Launch of a competition to support education compensation systems.
- Available to high-poverty local education agencies.
- Application deadline set for June 2026.
Obligations
What this law requires
Submit complete grant proposals electronically through Grants.gov by 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern time on June 8, 2026
Applicant must be a local educational agency (LEA) in which 20 percent or more of students are from families with income below the poverty line, OR a consortium of such LEAs, OR the Bureau of Indian Education, OR an eligible nonprofit organization serving children within attendance boundaries of eligible LEAs
Develop, implement, improve, or expand comprehensive performance-based compensation systems or human capital management systems for teachers, principals, or other school leaders that raise student growth and academic achievement
Address at least one of the two absolute priorities: Human Capital Management Systems (HCMS) and Performance Based Compensation Systems (PBCS), OR High-Need Schools
Include compensation or management systems that support workforce readiness and close the achievement gap between high- and low-performing students