{"id":944266,"date":"2020-12-18T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=944266"},"modified":"2020-12-19T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:37:19","slug":"lisd-passes-out-2-8-million-in-bonus-pay-to-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=944266","title":{"rendered":"LISD passes out $2.8 million in bonus pay to Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/12\/LISD-LIFT-Bonus-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-944267\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; The presents came early at Longview ISD on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, several teachers from the district welcomed a $30,000 bonus check just in time for the Christmas break. In total, Longview ISD awarded $2.8 million in incentive pay for teachers. A few of the highest performing teachers received the money. Crystal Lewis and Monica Jones both received checks for around $30,000, and Kamala Weaver received a check for close to $37,000.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jones described her approach to students as being &#8220;active participants in their education, so that they are held responsible. And they feel good, when they are successful.&#8221; Weaver was excited as the highest recipient of the bonus, &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like an extra bonus for something I have been doing anyway. I work hard for my kids all the time, I want them to be the best. So getting paid for it, is just unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The presents came early at Longview ISD on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, several teachers from the district welcomed a $30,000 bonus check just in time for the Christmas break. In total, Longview ISD awarded $2.8 million in incentive pay for teachers. A few of the highest performing teachers received the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=944266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LISD passes out $2.8 million in bonus pay to Teachers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 15:41:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944401,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944266\/revisions\/944401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}