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Charter school that's different than the public school? >> i think there's a number of things. it's one of the hardest things to do right now is create a great, great public school. we've been doing it for ten years at success academy. teacher development is foremost important. >> what does that mean? >> our teachers come back two weeks before the school year starts. teaching is a performance job. if you're a sports team, you need to do two weeks of spring training or more than that. you're going to get your team ready to go. >> the public school doesn't have to do that because they're union t...

With you. >> absolutely. in my district, i'm really proud that our -- we're kind of the little isd-15 that could. we take this very seriously. we have teacher development in our -- as part of our professional development that we bring in to our school. we have teacher leaders going out, coming back in. they're a course that i need to sign up for every year, a different course, and we're doing this, our teachers throughout our district are getting together. we're collaborating. all of our teaching goals are tied to a goal we've set based on the research, techniques we're using. in the long run,...

Our state is leading the way, utah, in prosperity 2020, our sponsorship for local businesses. i'm one to one in my classroom. we have a three-year rollout. my school just got devices. next year it will go down to high school. the next year will go to elementary. >> and your reaction to the fact that teachers here have to come out of their own pockets to provide this for their kids? >> i am in awe just to be here and be surrounded by so many of you incredible educators, but my -- i just cannot believe that your districts or your states are not putting out for teacher development. our state beli...

Like a public school that's not working. look. we can't continue to have a drop out roued 50% in our urban schools and kids scoring at the bottom 20 percentile and not ask the tough questions. i also agree we have to tie money to results, to accountableability. we have to have multiple measures of teachers and invest more in teacher development and recruit the best teachers. you've seen teachers teach for america, they are recruiting some of the top people from colleges to our schools. so we need to do all of that and give parent choices and we need to have the highest standard for our kids. >...