mr. bushman, we have a contract with teach for america, is that correct? >> yes. >> and when was the contract signed? >> 2008. >> and we are bound to it for how many years? >> it expires the last co-heart -- cohort is going into their second year this coming school year. >> ok. and was that a partnership that was approved by the board of education? >> yes. >> ok, thank you. >> if these teachers only teach in hard to fill areasing why do we have data about english language arts achievement? >> we have some exceptions. i can list where they're at. go ahead. >> we in the beginning placed them a lot in multiple subject areas in english and social studies and those areas. the years went be, we started really fine tuning it so it would be in the hard to fill subject areas. right before school starts, many times we find out about teachers that are not coming back, they're relocating or whatever. if we still have a t.f.a. person out there, we'll say, do you have an english person? we have placed all our consolidated teachers, our laid off teachers, there are ince