we negotiated $1 rblings 500 a year for our teachers. the money doesn't go to the teachers. their salaries are the same as any other intern teacher in the district. the $1,500 goes to the nonprofit t.f.a. and t.f.a. reports that they actually spend $40,000 per teacher in support, recruiting, support, so on and so forth for the teachers. they ask us to pay them $1,500 a year for those teachers which is what we pay. the next thing that come ops t.f.a. is retention. it's true. we hire these teachers for two years and the reality is that their retention in the second year is higher, 86%, versus 72% of our new teachers in the district. now in the third and fourth year they drop off precipitously, which is expected in that they come here to work for us for two years and then they go in and do other things. so in the fourth year it's 26% retention for t.f.a. teachers. versus 47% for the teachers that are other teachers in the district that we hire. >> 26% versus 47% in the fourth year, correct? >> yes. and -- which is no surprise. it's the design of the program. the department has