i want to thank uw system president kevin reilly and uw- colleges and uw-extension chancellor ray cross for leading the charge on this exciting idea. part of the long-term strategy to develop our workforce is to continue to transform education in our state. the reforms we enacted over the past two years saved school districts hundreds of millions of dollars and allowed each district to hire based on merit and pay based on performance. we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms -- and we can pay them to stay there. we finally have a way to recognize our exceptional teachers and reward them for the good work they do with our children. going forward, our educational efforts must be focused on performance. during the past year, state superintendent evers and i put together a diverse group of stakeholders from around wisconsin -- teachers, parents, school board members, taxpayers, business leaders, and others -- to talk about school and school district accountability. after a lengthy process, the first report card evaluating each school in the state was released at the start of

uw, madison in madison has the basics program, which they just started using this year, and it is really to provide feedback and information, some brief intervention, some prevention, if you will, to help students make better decisions, so that they can be happy and successful, which is what they want and it's what their parents want. and, justin, was that your scenario? did you go on to college and what did you see while you were there? i got into college right out of high school into the [inaudible] school of business and was actually asked to leave a fraternity for drinking too much. so my experience- that was very responsible on their part. yeah, i mean, it really was. i was drinking at such an obnoxious and dangerous level that even for that kind of atmosphere it was deemed inappropriate. and so my experience in college was people were drinking, they were going to classes drunk, and i would think that's pretty common across the board. and so when that happens now, we know that there's an option for someone who really wants to-that has had a problem really continuing college through

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i want to thanks uw system president kevin reilly and uw colleges extension chancellor ray cross for leading the charges on this exciting idea. [applause] now part of the long-term strategy to develop our workforce is to continue to transform education in our state. the reforms we enacted over the past two years saved school districts hundreds of millions of dollars and allowed each district to hire based on merit and pay based on performance. we now can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms and we can pay them to stay there. we finally have a way to recognize our exceptional teachers and reward them for the good work they do with our children. [applause] going forward, our educational efforts must be focused on performance. in the past year state superintendent evers and i put together a diverse group of stakeholders from around wisconsin, teachers, parents, school board members, taxpayers, business leaders and others, to talk about school and school district accountability. after a lengthy process the first report card evaluating each school in the state was released at

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