The Dallas Morning News featured findings from NCPI’s inaugural evaluation report for the Texas Education Agency about the first year of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program. TEEG provides nearly $100 million per year to approximately 1,200 high-poverty high-performing schools throughout the state. NCPI’s report provides an overview of the program design features used in schools’ locally-designed incentive pay plans, in addition to teachers’ attitudes and behaviors during the first year of TEEG implementation. While preliminary findings suggest that teachers may not have changed their practice in an effort to earn a performance incentive bonus, researchers also found teachers held broad support for their schools’ TEEG programs. The report also suggests that TEEG did not appear to have a detrimental effect on the quality of teacher collaboration or instructional quality – two traditional arguments against performance pay policy.