Should Texas Teachers Receive A Raise?

The editorial board of the Dallas News website published a piece titled "Here's why every teacher shouldn't get a $5,000 raise" on February 27th, 2019. The editorial discusses recently approved Senate Bill 3 which was unanimously approved on February 25th, 2019 by the Texas Senate Committee on Finance and will move on to be debated in a full Senate. Senate Bill 3 would give classroom teachers $5,000 beginning next year and approximately 350,000 educators would be eligible for this raise. This means that the total amount would increase by about $1,750,000. While the editorial board finds the intention of Senate Bill 3 to be wholehearted they also find it to be flawed and therefore the reason why it should not be passed. The board argues that by giving every single teacher the automatic raise we would be doing students a further disservice by not implementing any form of a teacher "reward system". I find myself conflicted in these regards. While, yes, public school teachers should be making more money I also find it to be reasonable to have some form of "prerequisite" so to speak in order to receive the $5,000 raise. In today's public school systems there are actions enforced for teachers to reach a certain quota with the amount (percentage) of kids each teacher have pass standardized assessments. Teachers having the constant pressure of standardized assessment satisfaction rates are already enough strain on them, therefore, this shouldn't be further punishment disabling them from receiving a raise. I do not have the answer for how these raises should be distributed but I do agree with the board on the Texas Senate needing to find a reasonable method in doing so.