Texas Legislative Session 2025 Teacher Pay. With less than a month left in the legislative session, the odds that teachers will get the kind of raise they say they badly need are rapidly diminishing. Greg abbott expressed confidence wednesday that he now has enough votes in the texas house to pass.

Because this legislation creates a new teacher retention allotment which provides pay raises, and in order to provide school districts additional flexibility in how their funds are spent, this bill also. The consequences of low teacher pay extend beyond individual educators, impacting the entire educational system and, by extension, the future of texas.