I wanted to say Congratulations on your achievements in Frankfort. I am not sure I am completely aware of the details but it sounds like you are requiring higher demands in performance from our teachers so that they are held to higher standards. After being in the corporate world for 21 years, the thing I find most interesting in Education is that teachers do the same thing year after year. if you are tenured then it seems impossible to get fired for performance or lack there of. For 21 years in the pharmaceutical industry I went through a performance review every 6 months and at the end of each year I would not receive a raise if my performance was not always showing improvement. If reps did not achieve their sales goals, as well as other goals decided upon between themselves and their manager they were put on probation and 3-6 months later were either showing improvement or were fired. Since education is the most important job in this country it seems like teachers should be held to the same standards. Goals set for each semester that are measurable and they most show continued improvement in their areas of weakness and maybe be rewarded for exceptional work. Ours in the Pharmaceutical industry was always money, but achievements can always be recognized in different ways. Anyway I fell like if Government agencies were run more like corporate America, this country would not be in the awful predicament it is in today.